True to You by Jodi Watters

Some people said that love and hate couldn’t coexist. That such polarizing emotions could never be assigned to one singular thing at the same time. That much like roller coasters or Brussels sprouts, you either felt love or you felt hate, but never both. Common ground was nowhere to be found, forcing a person to pick a side.
Olivia Quinn would tell those people that they’d never met Asher Coleson.
Never met him. Never touched him. Never loved him.
And never hated him.

Asher Coleson hadn’t always lived his life from the outside looking in. That neat little trick of the mind started somewhere around four years ago. Right about the time he’d gone to sleep one night living the American dream and woken up the next morning in his own private nightmare.
Considering he was a front-lines defender of that American dream, it was irony at its best.
But that didn’t change his life story.
Magic to tragic, in less time than it took paint to dry.