➡️Always & Forever is a 16k short story that was previously published in the Resisting You Anthology⬅️ Best friends who fell out of touch then later become lovers… until one moment shattered it all. When Laurel finds herself single, jobless, and living back in her small hometown of Hidden Ditch, Texas, she doesn’t know what to do. Keeping her head down and staying away from anyone in her past is the plan but sometimes plans don’t always work out the way you want them to. Sometimes you find yourself staring into the face of the one person you love to hate, a man who broke your heart and left it utterly destroyed. And sometimes that man's name is Jake Caulder.