Hard Rime by Chelle C. Craze

Halle
When Crash walked through my door, I was living in the shadows of my past, and the fear of loneliness guided my every notion. Yet, when he offered to rescue me from my own
constrictions, I wasn’t sure I would ever be ready to fully let him. He was persistent and nothing like anyone else I’d ever met.

Crash
Halle had moxie, but then she hid beneath the world’s expectations. She wasn’t at all the type of person I ever pictured for my Old Lady, but I hadn’t actually figured out what that entailed for me anyway. The longer I was around her, the clearer it became that I had to have her in any facet I could. I kept her a secret from my brothers because I wasn’t ready to give that piece of her to the Dogs of Chaos, not right away.
Life was filled with countless uncertainties and breathtaking moments, only some never took the time needed to live in those fleeting seconds. More often than not, a person let their heart be consumed with the obscurities that passed through their body, not the clarity of hopefulness begging to shine light into their core.
It was a constant battle for us to find direction together and not stray from it, but my determination was unwavering. It didn’t matter if either of us understood the path we were traveling or where it began as long as it ended with us.