A Guarded Heart — Lee Wardlow

A Guarded Heart Pointe Royal 3rd Generation Sam was arrested when I was ten. My mother overdosed with I was thirteen. I'm the one who found her dead on the living room floor while Sam was still in prison. Security? A stable home life? I didn't have that in my childhood but I didn't make it easy on myself either. People who loved me tried to help. Bronagh Martin, her husband Shawn, Pointe Royal's sheriff. My grandmother. At the 4th of July picnic, I finally agreed to fess up to everyone that I was Sam Clifton's daughter. Ronan Moore was surprised. We had been attending Sam's group for the last year. Both ex-addicts trying to stay clean, me longer than him. Yes, I followed in my parents' footsteps. Sam had a reason for introducing me to the Moore family. He wanted me to come out of my shell. To stop hiding from the world. I guarded my heart even from my own father because Sam had let me down once. I loved being surrounded by the Moore's. There was so much love in their family. They showed me what I had missed as a kid. Liam Moore liked me. I thought we had something. Jamie Moore, his identical twin, he and I rubbed each other the wrong way from the moment we said hello. Both brothers were interested in me but Liam wouldn't let his feelings for me come between him and Jamie. Fate had other plans for me and Jamie though. He left me with broken dreams and broken promises. That's why, I guarded my heart so it could never be broken.