Back To You (Lenny’s Bartenders #3)

Prologue

Annie

When you love someone, you let them go. If they come back, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

That’s what all good romance movies and books always say.

They remind you that love is always enough.

But what about when it isn’t?

Is love enough when you come from two completely different worlds? Is love enough when you have two completely different ideas of what the future holds? Is love enough when your “friends” corner you in a room at a party the night before everyone leaves for college? Is love enough when those girls show you a recording of your boyfriend confirming every single internal worry you ever had about how you weren’t good enough for him?

Because it isn’t.

Love isn’t enough when one of you comes from wealth and stability and the other comes from hardship and insecurity. When one of you comes from a family that knows you’ll do great things and the other comes from one that told you that you would never make it out of the trailer park.

When one of you has their whole life planned: college, law school, a career at his dad’s law firm. And the other is moving across town to bartend at some dive bar and enrolling in community college with no idea of what to do with her life.

We were never meant to make it past high school.

We were never meant for a happily ever after.

Luke was always meant to realize the shy, introverted girl he sat next to in first grade wasn’t going to be part of his epic love story.

You think you know someone after 12 years of being their other half.

Turns out, the person closest to you is the one who holds all the power to hurt you the most.