Pretty Heartache

Micah Harding has always been known to cause heartache.

He didn't know it, but he broke my heart the summer I turned eleven.

Humiliated and embarrassed, I didn't speak to him again after he claimed to have rescued me.

Now, ten years later, I find myself on his doorstep, heartbroken yet again.

Only this time, I'm an unemployed model, running from the life I've tried so hard to create, about to be thrust back into the one I escaped.

Although he's the same billionaire I knew all those years ago, Micah's changed.

I see the pain he holds in his blue-gray eyes, desperate to forget his reality and the secrets he holds within them.

My childhood feelings for him were kept under lock and key-they had to be-but now that we're older and living together, the feelings I once had for him are no longer reduced to a meaningless crush. They're real. And the more time we spend together, the more difficult they are to dismiss.

But as temptation consumes us, we realize our pasts aren't the only facts we're running from.

I'm twenty-one.

He's thirty-three.

And my older brother's best friend.

I never believed there was beauty in heartache... until I fell for him.