Shattered (The Protectors #11)

Shattered (The Protectors #11)

Author: Sloane Kennedy Listening Length: 8h 54m

I failed Caleb once because I was a coward. And he ended up paying the price. Never again Ten years of war and the loss of nearly his entire family have left thirty-four-year-old former sniper, Jace Christenson, with nothing to come home to. And he prefers it that way. Life consists of his work in an underground vigila...

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Jace

I’d told myself this morning that I couldn’t touch him again. That I’d pushed him too hard and too fast. I’d only meant to kiss him after he’d told me he wanted to leave, but I wasn’t sure what insanity had been going through my head to make me think that one taste of him would be enough.

Sex was a means to an end for me. It was a way of feeling in control in those moments where the helplessness of my situation kicked in.

It hadn’t always been that way, but since my sister had disappeared and I’d been completely powerless to do anything to help her, I’d taken all those emotions and poured them into meaningless encounters with complete strangers.