I’m the first one to tell you I have issues.

Trust issues.

Family issues.

Probably a few others I haven’t discovered yet. Which is why I prefer to keep my life as simple and uncomplicated as possible.

Until him.

Blake McAdams barrels into my life and refuses to leave. He’s relentlessly optimistic, sexy as hell, annoyingly persistent, and… wants to be friends? Because… he thinks I’m interesting?

Yeah, I’ll pass. Thanks.

Only, somehow, we end up doing just that.

And then that friendship evolves into something more, and suddenly, I find myself navigating a completely foreign territory: a relationship.

But Blake has his own issues, and once those clash with mine my simple and uncomplicated life? Turns into anything but.

Briar Prescott