Prologue

Have you ever done something so incredibly stupid, the guilt and regret hang over you like the darkest, heaviest cloud? Blurring your judgment, consuming your soul until it’s the only thing you can see, hear, or think about?

I have. I’ve done a lot of things I regret, that fill me with guilt. But the absolute worst is the thing I did yesterday.

I left the girl I love alone, naked in her bed. Like some sort of macho asshole who uses a girl for sex and then leaves her—that’s me. I’ve turned into that guy.

But I’m not really that guy. I love the girl I left alone naked in her bed. I just don’t deserve her.

And I know it.

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