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Aleena Moore is content with her life. She has goals and dreams and an easy smile. She also has a secret she holds locked inside.

Jared Holt believes he doesn’t deserve to love or be loved. He destroys everything he touches. Haunted by the mistake that shattered his life, he’s fled from the memory of that pain.

Jared doesn’t know why he’s compelled to return, but finds himself drawn back to the place where it all began. The exact place where it ended. When he runs into his childhood best friend, Aleena’s older brother Christopher, he agrees to share Christopher and Aleena’s apartment while he looks for a place of his own.

Aleena is no longer the little girl Jared remembers from his past and evokes feelings in him he never wanted to feel again. Terrified of destroying her, he fights to keep her away. But her touch is something he can’t resist—the touch that sealed his fate.

Their pasts are intertwined and their futures uncertain. The only truths they know are the secrets they whisper in the night

Starting now. :)

20% (view spoiler)[ Jared has it bad. (hide spoiler)]

21% (view spoiler)[ he has a different girl every night?! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 6 - Alright so far. Hope them getting together doesn't drag out too much though.

Sarah wrote: "20% [spoilers removed]"

Really bad!

Abbie wrote: "Chapter 6 - Alright so far. Hope them getting together doesn't drag out too much though."

The pace seems quite slow.

41% (view spoiler)[ finally! (hide spoiler)]

49% (view spoiler)[ oh dear, big brother is overprotective (hide spoiler)]

66% (view spoiler)[ did she not think it sent out the wrong signal having another guy in her room for half an hour? (hide spoiler)]

Sarah wrote: "41% [spoilers removed]"

Took long enough!

Sarah wrote: "49% [spoilers removed]"

Yep.

Starting now ☺

Sarah wrote: "Starting now ☺"

Snap. :)

10% (view spoiler)[ OMG. Just the thought of someone telling their mother that they're pregnant fills me with dread. (hide spoiler)]

14% (view spoiler)[ how many times is he going to say 'motherfucker trigger' in this book? because it got old about 200 pages ago. (hide spoiler)]

Sarah wrote: "14% [spoilers removed]"

Its really annoying!

Chapter 7 - (view spoiler)[Yikes! (hide spoiler)]

Abbie wrote: "Chapter 7 - [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ went about as well as i expected! (hide spoiler)]

62% (view spoiler)[ This is all happening rather quickly. first they're pregnant, now they have a house and are engaged?! (hide spoiler)]

64% (view spoiler)[ he can get past the fact that she'd pregnant? (hide spoiler)]

69% (view spoiler)[ at least she got an apology! (hide spoiler)]

Sarah wrote: "62% [spoilers removed]"

It is.

85% (view spoiler)[ this guy is seriously messed up! I can't believe he's wrecking their house now! (hide spoiler)]

Starting book 3 now. :)

Chapter 3 - The change of main characters is nice.

Glad we wont have Jareds saying all the time! It got so annoying!

Chapter 9 - This one feels pretty slow again.

chapter 1 (view spoiler)[ they're married and had the baby now! (hide spoiler)]

chapter 2 (view spoiler)[ he's part owner of a remoddling business now?! (hide spoiler)]

Abbie wrote: "Chapter 9 - This one feels pretty slow again."

Not surprised.

Chapter 4 (view spoiler)[ well he's not pleased to see her! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 6 (view spoiler)[ why does he have to be so mean to her when he likes her? (hide spoiler)]

Its getting pretty boring.

Sarah wrote: "Chapter 4 [spoilers removed]"

Nope!

Sarah wrote: "Its getting pretty boring."

Yep.

chapter 13 (view spoiler)[ so he did what? had sex with her when she didn't want to? so she dumped him, and he then slept with another girl? Is that what happened? (hide spoiler)]

These have all felt so long! Feels like theyre never-ending.

chapter 19 (view spoiler)[ so he went slightly further than she wanted him too, because he was drunk, and this is what resulted in all this? (hide spoiler)]

Abbie wrote: "These have all felt so long! Feels like theyre never-ending."

They really drag!

chapter 23 (view spoiler)[ has she forgotten that she has a boyfriend? (hide spoiler)]

chapter 24 (view spoiler)[ she should really have broken things off with Ben before having sex with Christopher! (hide spoiler)]

Sarah wrote: "chapter 24 [spoilers removed]"

Yep.

chapter 27 (view spoiler)[ why tell her he hadn't slept with Jasmine when he had?! (hide spoiler)]