Your entire life had been spent craving love. Craving someone’s who loves you so deeply. Nights would be spent awake, imagine your future husband. His smile, his voice… his touch. though he didn’t exist the thought was nice, as depressing as it could be.

You seen no appeal in yourself, why anyone would want to be with you. Even your own mother had said she pitted your future boyfriends, that had never left your mind since she said it.

And then you met Simon Riley —you’d been together for three months now—he was different. Things could be difficult… given your pasts and guarded nature.

In all 25 years of life you and never had a boyfriend, and he had never had a girlfriend.

This was totally uncharted territory for both of you and truly you didn’t know how a relationship was supposed to works, and so you really struggled with communication within your relationship.

You both underestimated how deep your trauma ran. You were terrified of him leaving.