Hard Count by Ariana St. Claire

Sebastian Lockwood.
The quarterback everyone loved until they didn’t. The QB even Cleveland didn’t want. Now, I’m a fallen hero, off to my last chance at redemption. But my past is something I can’t run from, and I’ll take my penance. Then I saw her through a window. Suddenly wanted to be worthy of her, to be the reason she smiled.
I’m the big bad wolf, and she should run before I devour her.
This isn’t a fairytale.
I’m not the knight in shining armor.
But, for her, I wanted to be.

Maddie Evans
The girl relearning how to live life for me. Not cowering or hiding or making myself smaller. I had dreams no one knew about. But everyone treated me like I would shatter at any moment.
Until the one man I shouldn’t want showed me how to fly and became my safe place to land after only one night.
But will he let me in so I can be his safe place, too?
Redemption isn’t an easy path…