One moment.

One moment changed my life forever.

Her big green eyes looked at me and I knew I would never be the same.

But sometimes in life, the things you want are the ones that stand just out of reach.

The pain her loss in my life caused was indescribable.

Hot, piercing pain that in all of my twenty years of living, I had never experienced.

I remembered her.

Every day.

Every bad date my friends pushed me into.

Every lonely holiday I spent without her to talk to.

Until we met once more.

And I found her all over again.

My father always told me that love snuck up on you when you were least expecting it.

That’s what happened with her.

Charlie was my girl from that moment on and I would do anything to protect her.

Anything.

Dare To Love is an installment of The Beautifully Broken Series but can be read as a standalone.