Retribution by Ellie Kirson

I fought and lost, too late to save her.
Bound by my guilt over not saving the girl that owned my whole heart, I struggle through each and every day.
I’m a father to twins that have no idea who I am. I have loved and protected them from afar my whole life; everything I’ve done, I’ve done for them.

Now that I’m finally free to be their father, they’re suspicious and wary.
But I am a patient and focused man, a fighter and protector to my core.

Toni is a distraction I neither want nor need. She’s my daughters’ teacher, so avoiding her is impossible.
She tears through my boundaries, replacing my loneliness with hope for the future.
She becomes the bridge spanning the chasm between my children and me.
She brings light and joy to a once brutal life.

But can I let Mia go and move on?

Will I be too late to save the woman that makes me feel like I can breathe again, when I can’t let go of my past?

Rage consumes me; retribution my only recourse.