Absolutely Pucked (Punk as Puck #3)

Here's EM Lindsey's "Absolutely Pucked." It's the third novel in her Punk as Puck series.

["Sometimes the one-night stand you meet at a bar on the outskirts of town shows up at your house a month later to reveal he’s the one man you were never supposed to touch.

My friends are all I have, so I’d rather lose my other leg than do anything to hurt them. But how was I supposed to know the bearded stranger at the bar that night was the one person who hurt my best friend beyond repair?

I never would have known who Killian was if he hadn’t turned up at my door a month after our little tryst. But here he is, on my doorstep, with nowhere to go and a sob story that wounds my already bleeding heart.

I should turn him away, but I can’t. Killian makes me feel things I’ve never felt before.

And he’s the first man to ever look at me like I’m a whole person and not just shattered pieces from a bad accident and a broken family.

How can I give that up?

My only job should be to protect my best friend, but the heart wants what the heart wants. All I can hope is that in the end, when truths are finally revealed, I won’t have lost the only people who love me for exactly who I am."]

This book was rough. It was love at first sight. For both of them. Deep and connected, soul and cell level feeling of wholeness, missing/jagged puzzle piece completion love at first sight. The more they got to know each other, the more they snuck around, the more they fell. 

And the more guilty they felt. It was a knife's edge of so fucking perfect and we're ruined. It was horrible and wonderful all at the same time. Yes, I definitely cried.

I hope the rest of these broken and lonely boys get their HEA.

Trigger Warnings: past abuse, cheating (not between MCs), parental abuse, adoption trauma, step-parent abuse, step-parent causing a permanent injury (loss of limb), emotional abuse by a romantic partner (not between or by MCs), anxiety, abandonment issues, ableist language, and more.

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