“I can’t, that’s why I rarely go home and fell in love with a girl who is nothing like that. I don’t want that kind of relationship, like my parents. I never did. There are enough lies and deceit in this lifestyle, I don’t want it between us anymore. I want something pure with you.”

I really want those words to be the truth.

“It’s hard to forget everything and take you at face value, you know that?” It’s not easy to go from a lifetime of trusting no one to trust the one person who wounded you deeper than most. Even if he makes it sound like a possibility...