Courtney Cole
24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole. ,Seriously. ,Heâ€™s a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to match. ,But heâ€™s got his reasons. ,His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesnâ€™t understand why. What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with more issues than they can count. ,As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didnâ€™t work. His dad couldnâ€™t overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldnâ€™t keep up the impossible perfect faÃ§ade. ,So he slipped far, far from it. ,Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesnâ€™t want to deal with. If he pretends that the emptiness isnâ€™t there, then it isnâ€™t, right? ,Wrong. ,And itâ€™s never more apparent than when he meets Mila. ,Sweet, beautiful Mila Hill is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart. He doesnâ€™t know how to not hurt her, but he quickly realizes that heâ€™s got to figure it out because he needs her to breathe.,When memories of his motherâ€™s death resurface from where heâ€™s repressed them for so long, Mila is there to catch him when the guilt starts making sense. Mila is the oneâ€¦the one who can save him from his broken troubled heart; from his issues, from the emptiness. ,But only if he can stop being an asshole long enough to allow it. ,He knows that. And heâ€™s working on it. , ,But is that enough to make her stay?
New Adult,Romance,Contemporary,Romance,Contemporary Romance,Adult,Sociology,Abuse,Young Adult,Womens Fiction,Chick Lit,Love,Fiction
If You Stay