Chapter 54

Brian lived in apartments and hotel rooms. He didn’t have a home if he was honest with himself. He had a house, but he was very rarely there and even though he had grown up there, without his mother and father in it, it no longer felt like home. That house, like all the other places he stayed, was merely a place where he slept; none of them was really home. He rolled away from Cassie, untangling himself from her without waking her, and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He sat for a moment, his head in his hands, and wondered what it meant that he had fallen for this girl so fast. The girl that had been Nathan’s fuck buddy for five years. It wasn’t his style. Yes, he’d had girlfriends before, but none of them had had such a profound effect on him. He’d kept them all at arm’s length, not wanting to expose his soft underbelly to them in case he got hurt. Losing his father had shown him that love hurts, and he had been carefully guarded ever since. But then Cassie had come along and