Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desireunleashing in one terrible flood.

He’d never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.

Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone’s expectations and free-fall for once in her life

And in that moment, he knew one thing. If it was possible to slay his dragons, he’d do it. For her.

The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.