Before You Decide to Leave

I knew he was temporary. I didn't know his hold on my heart would be permanent.

Matt Dawson walked into my furniture restoration shop carrying one end of a damaged dining table. I told him where to put it.

Keeping him at a distance should have been just as easy.

The Fairmont Wolves linebacker has broad shoulders, a quiet confidence that makes it difficult to think, and a way of showing up that gets under every defense I have. Somewhere between his teammates' relentless teasing and the nights I stop wanting him to leave, he becomes part of my life.

The life I spent years building. My business. My home. A place where I finally belong.

But Matt's future in Fairmont has an expiration date. And the closer we get, the harder it becomes to pretend we can leave tomorrow for another day.

I can picture a future with him. He says he can picture one with me.

I just didn't realize we were imagining two different lives.

How do you hold on to the man you love when he doesn't understand what he's asking you to let go?

Before You Decide to Leave is the first book in the Fairmont Wolves series-an emotional football romance about finding someone worth making room for, and a love that will have to survive more than the end of a season.