Gabriel's Salvation: small town, misunderstood MMC, overcoming trauma, first love romance

Prologue

Every villain’s origin story has one thing in common:

A traumatic event that changed the character”s life forever.

But I don’t have just one traumatic event – I have a lifetime of traumatic events. A loving mother who died when I was just a child, and a father who beat and abused me for most of my life. Then, to top it all off, the one good thing I had in my life, my younger brother, Nate, was snatched away from me when he dared to share our secret with the girl he loved. Only for her to open her big mouth and betray us both.

I’d resigned myself to a life of loneliness, heartache, and isolation. That is, until one day that all changed. She forced her way into my life and made me reevaluate everything I thought I knew about love, friendship, and past mistakes.

For the first time in my life, I was made to feel like the hero rather than the villain. She made me believe that maybe there was hope for me yet.

But I”m getting ahead of myself. Perhaps I should start at the beginning, in a run down house, in the middle of nowhere.