The Lies We Lived

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He was never mine to keep. But that didn't stop me from falling for him anyway.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Matteo De Luca was the boy I should've stayed away from.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tattooed reckless too damn beautiful for his own good.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He saw through my walls when no one else tried.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And for one unforgettable summer... he was mine.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until the night everything fell apart and loving him became the worst mistake of my life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Three years later I live under a different name in a town where no one knows me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My heart is guarded. My past is buried.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And then Matteo walks back into my life like a storm I never saw coming.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He says he's here for answers.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the way he looks at me says he still wants more.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And my body remembers every broken promise we made.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But I'm not that girl anymore.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And he's not the boy who once held my heart.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Loving him once destroyed me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Loving him again might ruin everything I've rebuilt.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perfect for readers who crave broken hearts unresolved chemistry and love stories that burn.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A steamy angsty second-chance romance.</strong></p><p></p>