B. L. Payne Shattered Mind

I wasn't always known as the darker, quieter brother out of the three of us. Watching your best friend die will do that to a person. The day I lost him, my world went dark. Every day I get up, I go to work, I make an appearance to keep the questions at bay, and then I go home, back to the quiet loneliness I've found comfort in for the last four years. Rinse and repeat. Until Olivia Donahue blew into my life. I wasn't expecting her. I wasn't expecting to enjoy the fire in her blue eyes that only I can seem to put there. I wasn't expecting her to scale the walls I had spent years building and begin pulling them down brick by brick. But most of all, I wasn't expecting to want her this badly. And I'll do whatever it takes to have her.