The first time I saw her was across the room at a bar. I had no idea at the time that she was only sixteen. All I knew was that she was beautiful, she was sending me do-me vibes from across the room, and I was fresh off a deployment where there’d been nobody but men for nine of the longest months of my life.
The second time that I saw her was at a court hearing that would decide how
long I’d be sent to prison for. She was a cute little curly-haired blonde with
wide, expressive eyes, a banging body, and the reason that I’d gone to prison
in the first place.
The third time I saw her was through a glass divider of the prison visitation
room as she waited for her stepfather, my lawyer, to tell me how sorry he was
that he lost my case. Especially when I’d been the one to kill the man that was
about to kill his daughter.
The last time, the time that I decided enough was enough, was when I saw her at
my bar eight weeks after I’d been set free.
Unlucky for her, I’d stopped being a good guy about two seconds after those
bars closed behind me twelve years ago. Now all that was left was a shell of a
man that didn’t see the good in anything. Anything except for her.
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Meet Lani Lynn Vale
Lani Lynn Vale is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, to cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple meaning over twenty) chickens.
She hails from the Great State of Texas.
When she's not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.
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