[Bite & Release 02] • The Reason I Breathe

**Strong Language**Explicit Sex**Intense situations

*This is Shea's POV. CANNOT BE READ AS A STAND-ALONE!

I waited my entire life for one singular moment.

Everything I had endured—all the pain and suffering—I would go through it all again,

if I knew she was waiting for me.

Ryan Chase was the only woman I ever loved.

My obsession. My desire.

When she came home . . . loving her hadn't been easy.

The road to our particular happiness was paved with boulders.

I became who she needed me to be. Who she wanted.

Marriage and children— they were a dream we both shared.

Until a nightmare threatened to take it all away.

Is love supposed to be this hard?

How long before the person I'm pretending to be begins to crack?

I'm a liar. A fraud.

He is surfacing.

She's the only reason I survived. I lived.

She is the reason I breathe.

Now, when she needs me the most—I'm transforming into the person

I thought I'd buried years before.

I can't be without her. She gives me purpose and makes me whole.

Nevertheless, the universe chose a different route. God had a different plan.

And right now, I'm pissed at them both