Shattered Promises

**Some damages can’t be undone… **

** MARK Charlie thinks she’s in love with me. She can’t be. She deserves someone better, someone as amazing and incredible as she is.

Someone who isn’t a useless cripple, half a man.

I thought my surgery would make me whole, but I was wrong. Now I’m worse than half a man.

I’m a freak.

Charlie deserves the best, and though I’d give anything for that to be me, it isn’t.

Now I know it never will be.

So because I love her, I’m making the ultimate sacrifice. I’m walking away, so she can find someone as perfect as she is.

** CHARLIE **Mark promised he’d always be there for me. He swore nothing could ever make him leave, nothing.

Yet here I am, all alone, with an unrelenting pain that nothing can numb, because he walked away and crushed my heart.

Part of me always knew I was too broken for anyone to truly love. I should have listened to that little voice.

It’s so hard to keep going when my entire world has shattered.

Some days, I’m not even sure I want to.

Then one trip to my doctor changes everything.

**This is Book 3 in a three-book series. These books need to be read in order. This is the heartfelt conclusion of Charlie and Mark’s journeys to self-acceptance.

TRIGGER This book contains subject matter which some readers may be sensitive to. Specific trigger warnings are located inside.