When Alex gets a call in the middle of the night telling him his ex-boyfriend is in the hospital, he only hesitates for a second before rushing to Sammy’s side. But the Sammy in the hospital bed is fragile and not the same man who told Alex to leave seven months ago.<br><br>Alex wants to help Sammy get better and is desperate to find out what went wrong between them. Maybe he’ll even get a second chance with the man he hasn’t been able to get over.<br><br>But will Sammy let Alex back into his life?

Us Again

I’m surprised my hands don’t shake as I stroke his back, but my insides do. They shake and scream and cry over little Sammy and what he had to endure. I can’t fathom how he could grow up to be such an amazing guy with that kind of upbringing.


“The guy, whoever he was, wanted Laura to stop whoring around and be with him,” Sammy continues. “He would take care of her and us, he said. She just laughed. Loud and cackling, and I remember thinking she sounded like a witch. She refused, and he screamed that he loved her and asked if that meant nothing to her. And she…cackled that weird laughter and shouted back. ‘Love? Why the fuck would I want love? All love ever got me was a broken heart and two stupid fucking brats that destroyed my fucking life.’”


My mouth opens and closes several times, and I swallow big gulps of air to stop the rage burning in my chest from lighting me on fire from within. “I’m gonna kill her,” I growl between clenched teeth.


Chapter 10