Shattered Promises

Some damages can't be undone...

MARK

Charlie thinks she's in love with me. She can't be. She deserves someone better, someone as amazing and incredible as she is.

Someone who isn't a useless cripple, half a man.

I thought my surgery would make me whole, but I was wrong. Now I'm worse than half a man.

I'm a freak.

Charlie deserves the best, and though I'd give anything for that to be me, it isn't.

Now I know it never will be.

So because I love her, I'm making the ultimate sacrifice. I'm walking away, so she can find someone as perfect as she is.

CHARLIE

Mark promised he'd always be there for me. He swore nothing could ever make him leave, nothing.

Yet here I am, all alone, with an unrelenting pain that nothing can numb, because he walked away and crushed my heart.

Part of me always knew I was too broken for anyone to truly love. I should have listened to that little voice.

It's so hard to keep going when my entire world has shattered.

Some days, I'm not even sure I want to.

Then one trip to my doctor changes everything.

NOTE: This is Book 3 in a three-book series. These books need to be read in order. This is the heartfelt conclusion of Charlie and Mark's journeys to self-acceptance.

TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains subject matter which some readers may be sensitive to. Specific trigger warnings are located inside.