My first love was my best friend, Zachary Rostov. He was the boy next door, my secret keeper, and knight in rugged denim; he saw me even when the world looked away.He loved me before anyone else did, but he broke my heart into a thousand pieces and took the shattered shards with him when he walked away. I left behind the small, poor town in Indiana we both grew up in and moved to Chicago... moreMy first love was my best friend, Zachary Rostov. He was the boy next door, my secret keeper, and knight in rugged denim; he saw me even when the world looked away.He loved me before anyone else did, but he broke my heart into a thousand pieces and took the shattered shards with him when he walked away. I left behind the small, poor town in Indiana we both grew up in and moved to Chicago. I was still poor, desperately so, and that poverty had me make a choice, had me make a terrible decision that led me to almost being arrested. The only reason I'm not in prison is because of one man.Vincent Jamison.Vincent isn’t the boy I left behind. He’s a man—dominant, powerful, rich. His life couldn’t be more different from the one I remember living in Indiana. He sweeps me off my feet into a fairytale, like the ones I always dreamed of, and I think maybe my prince has finally come.But Vincent doesn’t just want to save me. He wants to claim me. Own me.And as I realize that Vincent and I have very different meanings of happily ever after, I can’t help but think of my past; it’s blurring with my future, and I wonder if my white knight from long ago can keep his promise to always save me. less
