Five Seconds to Love

Scarred.
Broken.
Damaged.
I took a deep breath, working through the pain – the pain that led me to her. Memphis. The girl too pure to be near me, but too stubborn to care. From the moment I carried her limp body into the emergency room, she became my weakness, my salvation, the spark of life in my darkest of moments. Eighteen, she’s practically a kid and I remind myself of that fact every day.

Abandoned.
Lost.
Petrified.
I swallowed hard to fight back the tears that threatened to fall. Maverick James had to be the roughest hero I’d ever met, but he saved me. He sheltered me and when I needed someone to care, he willingly volunteered. My whole life I was warned to stay away from men like Maverick, men with colored ink and endless piercings, men who curse and question the way of God. But, if I heeded my father’s warning, I might never have fallen in love.