Sleep Sweet

Secrets don't make friends.

They make soulmates.

Elle

As a first-generation college student, I swore off conventionally hot men and stayed focused on my education. That is, until ...

His ocean eyes crash into mine-right after he literally crashed into me.

That's how Jesse and I meet-on the same day he signs his agreement to join the Navy after graduation.

And then we spend the next two years building our relationship.

Until he has to leave for boot camp, and my mantra becomes:

Keep me calm, keep him safe, keep us together.

But it's futile ... because it's all ruined in an instant.

Our future.

Our plans.

Our love.

Our trust.

It's funny how two minutes can unravel two years. Two minutes was all he ever needed anyway.

Austin

Somehow, my dream girl has fallen out of my dreams and landed in my life for the second time.

Half of our story was written by the coincidence that had brought Jesse into my division when he reported for boot camp. His bad decisions and my memory of her forged the other half.

Two years have passed, but I've never forgotten her face.

Her striking brown eyes.

Those full, glazed lips.

The innocence.

I begged my memory to erase her.

I didn't have time for many things because the Navy came first. Always.

But somehow, the tides have drifted Elle back into the safety of my harbor.

Nothing will stop me from making her mine.

And proving to her that I am worthy of being hers.

Before she finds out the truth.