Lauren: Working into an former mate you haven’t seen in nearly ten years is never a good time. Operating into your ex partner while he’s arresting you is usually humiliating. The handcuffs close around my fists at the same time he claims to hate me until he takes his last breathing. I can’t blame him. He pleaded for me personally not to walk away. He doesn’t know leaving him broke my center as much as it did his. It wasn’t for me. Rather, it was for someone else.

Gage: We skipped town after Hurricane Lauren obliterated my center. Coming home was a difficult choice to create. Arresting her isn’t. She has no idea of the demons I bring with me today. No proven fact that I’m a new man. Two ladies ruined me. One I provided my center to. The additional punished me for it.

Contains mature themes.