Love Me Tender — Christa Maurice

Are you strong enough to be tender?

Mick's friend is seeing some success as an actor so Mick is making sure nobody in Hollywood ever finds out about their past abuse. When publicist Sarina Das mentions that her job is covering up secrets, Mick wants to make sure she doesn't know anything already. He also wants to get far, far away because love and pain are tangled together for him. As much as he wants somebody to love, he is afraid of how much pain he'll have to endure.

Sarina can't figure Mick out. First he's nice, then he's rude, then he's defending her and then he's provoking her. When she finds out about the abuse he suffered, she realizes that sometimes it's not about her. Can she be strong enough for both of them?