As his lips meet mine and all that tension that's resided between us these past months melt away, my thoughts fall into place.

I'm not here because I pity him and want to fix him. I'm here because he saw all my demons and still chose to stay with me. I'm here because he chose me; the girl with the internal scars and invisible monsters hiding in her closet, and I chose him. He doesn't treat me like the fragile, worn-out girl that life has fucked over one too many times. To him, I am one of the bravest people he's ever met.

"The damaged loves the damaged." I sigh, pulling away from his lips.

"Haven't you heard? Damaged people are the most dangerous,"

Josephine Nathaniel is living in a world where mothers' lives slip through their fingers and fathers show their affection through the crack of their knuckles and whip of their belts. She considers herself damaged. But after being moved into a Foster care and meeting the also damaged, Chandler Riggs, Josie soon discovers the real definition of damaged.