I never planned on returning to Alabama, but circumstances brought me here after years of being gone.
Though Lawton Ridge is my hometown, I was hesitant to go back because of her -my sister's best friend.
The last time we were together, she was eighteen, and I was a broken soldier transitioning to civilian life.
Gemma wrote to me while I was overseas and we developed a bond I hadn't anticipated.
I crushed her heart the day I left, something I've never forgotten.
But now that her dad is.