When Sinners Rise

London isn’t my home, but it’s where I am. I should be thankful for what I’ve been offered: a great job, a penthouse apartment, and some kind of family wrapped around me. But I’m not thankful. I’m angry, unable to move on because I have no answers, and trapped between the past and the future. That’s what they did to me. They tainted everything around me – forever. I’ll never forget. And then he arrived to prove me right. It was a date. A drunken night that turned into something I thought was real. It wasn’t. It was my nightmares...

London isn’t my home, but it’s where I am. I should be thankful for what I’ve been offered: a great job, a penthouse apartment, and some kind of family wrapped around me. But I’m not thankful. I’m angry, unable to move on because I have no answers, and trapped between the past and the future. That’s what they did to me. They tainted everything around me – forever. I’ll never forget. And then he arrived to prove me right. It was a date. A drunken night that turned into something I thought was real. It wasn’t. It was my nightmares returning. Shaw Cortez was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Charming. Beautiful. Brutal. He made me feel things I’d forgotten, and then he took what little trust I had and scarred it further. I’m not the same girl now, though. I’m no one’s property. This time, I fought.