The Space Between Us

Emma f#cking Winchester
She's the little sister of my ex-best friend, Forrest. She's off limits like tempting forbidden fruit, and I'm the snake slithering through the grass.
She ignites a fire in me. One I can't explain. One I sure as f#ck can't control. It's raw and primal.
She's sweet, and I am not.
She's pure, and I'm broken.
When I came back to the town and past I'd left behind ten years ago to make it big in the world of underground fighting - it was for one reason, and one reason only. To take care of my Grandma Rose, and I'll do it by any means necessary. Even if it means doing the one thing I said I'd never do.
I didn't expect to see Emma again.
I didn't expect to want her the way I do.
I didn't expect to peel back all her perfectly controlled layers or for her to see through mine.

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Love isn't always simple. And it's definitely not as predictable as aspiring ballet dancer Emma Winchester's life. Or at least the way her life used to be until Dean King forced his way into her world and heart - now there's no turning back.

Emma returned to her hometown of Evansdale after leaving for college when tragedy struck. She and her brother Forrest are now the sole owners of Winchester Estate Orchards - but the apple business has never been Emma's passion. Dancing is. Until she bumps into Dean King, her older brother's ex-best friend and the object of her teenage crush and her whole world changes. She knows she'll hurt her brother if she keeps seeing Dean, but she can't stay away. He took her virginity, and how he's taken her heart.

Tall, handsome and tattooed boxer Dean King is nothing out of a fairy tale. He's brooding and moody, and he doesn't believe in love. But when he runs into Emma at the diner she works at, something ignites inside of him. A fire. A desire that's all but consuming in a way he doesn't understand.

Dean's life has never been simple, and it's never been predictable. Coming from a poor family and having an alcoholic and neglectful mother left