Torque — Shauna Allen

The darkness that fills him . . . the pain . . . they call to me. I see so much more than his crime, his past, his demons. I see the promise . . . the man who fills all the empty spaces inside me. I'm not the perfect, untouchable girl he thinks I am. I'm just dirty enough to take what I want. Him. ~ I could never deserve her. She is the light . . . the sun, the moon, a billion stars. She gives me hope. But hope is a dangerous thing for a criminal like me. I am hopeless. Infinitely flawed. Tainted. We are more than opposites. We are the dangerously perfect collision of dark and light and pain.