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Sean Molina had a hard childhood with a junkie mother who couldn’t care about him and a father who took off to start another family. He started stealing at a young age. It started when he needed new sneakers that actually fit for school and a child’s realization that if he needed something, and there were no adults to provide it to him, he would simply have to take it. As he got older, the things he needed or wanted got bigger and more expensive until we get to the night he was arrested for stealing a car and was arrested in front of his little girls.
After getting out of prison, Sean knew he was lucky to land a job as a cook at Whitecaps. The only thing that isn’t perfect about his job is Shayla Perkins. Sean has way too much interest in seeing Shayla every day. She is everything that is light and beautiful and he can’t get enough of listening to her or looking at her smile, which is why it isn’t a good thing for Sean. Someone as broken and worthless as he is doesn’t deserve the attention or the looks that Shayla throws his way.
A few months ago, he shut down her attempt to ask him out and while he hates the cold shoulder she now gives him, he knows that is all someone like him deserves from someone like her.
After a year of working as many shifts as he could, he had enough to buy a little house, rundown and needing just about everything, but it was a house he could make a home for his girls. That is, if he ex-wife ever let him see them again. What Sean doesn’t know is that it is Shayla who convinces his ex-wife to give him an opportunity to try to be a father again to his girls.
Shayla, with her bright smile and infectious laugh, teaches Sean that he is a man of worth, and one worthy enough to open his heart to her.
It was hard to see how years of neglect made it so easy for Sean to see himself as not worthy of the good things that have come his way but Shayla has the tenacity to stand strong against Sean’s inner demons and teach him to see himself as they all do.
This was a sweet and enjoyable romance.
Received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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- 27 June, 2018: Finished reading
- 27 June, 2018: Reviewed