Disappearing Into the Desert to Forget Him

I was in love with Silas Dawson, the man who adopted me and became my world.

To be near him, I pushed through my deepest fears and joined the military.

But on the day of my discharge, he gave the only permanent civilian position to Seraphina Vance.

She wasn't just Silas's fiancée; she was the daughter of the man my father had supposedly wronged years ago.

"Avery, you owe this to her," he told me.

That single sentence stripped me of the will to fight back.

Without a second thought, I accept