As he grows older, putting a stop to what Flor obviously wants to happen between them is harder than Dominic would ever want to admit.ĭominic knows that he has too many demons to let anybody get too close. Spitfire, stubborn Flor-even at sixteen, he refuses to be taken lightly. The more she pulls him towards her family, however, the harder it is not to go.Īll his resistance disappears under the force that is Flor Romero. Officer Catalina Romero seems to see something in Dominic that he is sure isn’t there. The world has never been kind to Dominic, but when he meets the Romeros, he wonders if that is about to change. With little left but his own thoughts, Dominic has to decide: Is this what I want for the rest of my life? Turns out, rock bottom looks a lot like the bars of a jail cell. But life had another hard lesson for him: With drugs, the only way is down.ĭominic hits rock bottom when he’s twenty-three. Anything was better than being conscious. It didn’t cure the ache, but it made him forget it for a while. Or, maybe, it was that he couldn’t even imagine what being loved should feel like.ĭrugs washed all that away. Maybe it began the first time an adult plied him with drinks just to watch him stumble about. Maybe it started when he was six, hiding beneath his blankets as the wild animal noises of one of mom’s parties echoed in his head. Dominic has lived with an empty ache inside him for as long as he could remember.
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