[A Forever Safe Christmas 03] • Hard Rime · Dogs of Chaos Book One

Halle

When Crash walked through my door, I was living in the shadows of my past, and the fear of

loneliness guided my every notion. Yet, when he offered to rescue me from my own

constrictions, I wasn’t sure I would ever be ready to fully let him. He was persistent and nothing like anyone else I’d ever met.

Crash

Halle had moxie, but then she hid beneath the world’s expectations. She wasn’t at all the type of

person I ever pictured for my Old Lady, but I hadn’t actually figured out what that entailed for

me anyway. The longer I was around her, the clearer it became that I had to have her in any facet

I could. I kept her a secret from my brothers because I wasn’t ready to give that piece of her to the Dogs of Chaos, not right away.

Life was filled with countless uncertainties and breathtaking moments, only some never took the

time needed to live in those fleeting seconds. More often than not, a person let their heart be

consumed with the obscurities that passed through their body, not the clarity of hopefulness begging to shine light into their core.

It was a constant battle for us to find direction together and not stray from it, but my

determination was unwavering. It didn’t matter if either of us understood the path we were

traveling or where it began as long as it ended with us.