Description:
When you’ve tried your best for years and never managed to please your demanding parents… When you’ve fallen head over heels for someone who keeps ignoring you… When you’ve hit rock bottom.
Tessa is this close to giving up – on her authoritative parents and their demands, on her studies, on everything in her life.
Including Dylan. The one boy she has loved since she can remember. The one who dated her and promised her forever when they were fourteen, and then dumped her without an explanation only to ignore her ever since.
The one who shows up to save her from the hands of her abusive ex before the stroke of midnight, who kisses her and holds her close, only to tell her in the course of the same night he doesn’t love her.
Tessa knows Dylan has gone through some tough times, and they’re only getting tougher - but is he telling the truth about his lack of feelings for her, or is he running from his own demons?
The way Tessa sees it, she has two options: run away, leaving it all behind - or stay to fight against her controlling family, and win back Dylan. She has a feeling he needs her, and how can she leave when he's the only man who’s ever made her feel alive?
Review:
This can be read as a stand alone, I haven't read the rest in this series, but I was able to follow the story line, and now that I have read this book, I want to go back and read the others!
Dylan is a member of the Inked Brotherhood, and has had a rough several years. His mother left his family and his father went into a deep depression, leaving Dylan to raise his brothers. He had to drop out of college and take odd jobs to pay for all of the bills.
His ex, Tessa, who he broke up with a few years ago to spare her from the life that he knew he had to take on, still wants to be a part of his life. Dylan does all he can to push her away, knowing that no matter what happens she will take one look at his life and leave him.
"I mean, if my own mother left me, why would anyone else stay?"
He eventually relents and allows her to help out him and his brothers, but only as friends.
Tessa, has her own issues. Sure her family has a lot of money, but there is no love there. Her father is a strong business man, who is essentially trying to force her to be with another man (who she hates for reasons revealed throughout the book). He wants to join businesses with the man's father and knows that Tessa is the way to get that to happen.
But Tessa isn't having it. She wants to be with Dylan, even if Dylan only wants to be friends. She wants to be with him, no matter what his life is like.
"I love you, Dylan. And no matter how hard I try, I can't just be friends with you. I'm sorry. I promise I'll leave you in peace."
Dylan and Tessa go through many changes in their lives and they find that the only way to get through their own demons and battles is together.
"All I have is yours."
**** 4 stars
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