Clinched

Tristan

Charlie is everything I want and didn't realize I need.

It's clear to me now, the woman I met at the club is only one layer of the woman I'm falling for.

I'm a fixer by nature, but for the first time, I wouldn't fix a thing.

I want her just the way she is.

Broken pieces and all.

Who needs the fairy tale, when we can have the reality.

Charlie

Tristan is everything I want, yet don't deserve.

He's loving, protective, smart, an amazing father, and he's onto me.

That's why I need to speed this story up and tell him everything.

So we can flip to the end of the book, and he and his daughter can move on to the next story.

One where they get a happily-ever-after.

Because there's no story I'm a part of that ends in any way but tragedy.