The Trouble with Apples and Trees

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Tulisa Petrosyan was thirteen when she fell in love with the boy who lived across the stream. At the time, he'd been eighteen but she was convinced that had it not been for their age difference, Jesse could have returned her feelings. The years wore on and with them, her feelings for him only seemed to mature along with her. Unfortunately for her, Jesse had a girlfriend, who became his fiancé and eventually his wife. Tulisa resigned herself to her fate, for no matter how much she tried not to love him, it seemed she was doomed to make the same mistake as her mother by pining after a man she could never have.

Then through a series of unfortunate circumstances, Jesse was all at once free.

After suffering losses of the worst imaginable kind, Jesse has sworn off women. He has no plans of falling in love again. Yet, he finds his flesh burning to possess the once little girl whom he'd thought of as a little sister. But he can't just use Tulisa if he can't love her.