After the Love

They tell you to marry the man who stayed when you had nothing, the one who saw the beauty beneath the scars and promised to be your shield. For eight years, Hunter Hayes was that hero—the man who saved me from my family’s neglect and built an empire by my side. But in the real world, the knight doesn’t always want to guard the castle; sometimes, he gets bored with the queen. When my savior traded our decade of devotion for the very influencer I mentored into stardom, he thought he was leaving behind a broken woman who owed him everything. He forgot one thing: I’m no longer the girl who needs saving, and the person who built your image is the only one who knows exactly how to tear it down.