24 year old Pax Tate is an asshole Seriously He s a tattooed, rock hard bad boy with a bad attitude to match But he s got his reasons His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn t understand why What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with issues than they can count As Pax grew up, he tr24 year old Pax Tate is an asshole Seriously He s a tattooed, rock hard bad boy with a bad attitude to match But he s got his reasons His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn t understand why What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with issues than they can count As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted the perfect golden boy, but it didn t work His dad couldn t overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldn t keep up the impossible perfect fa ade So he slipped far, far from it Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesn t want to deal with If he pretends that the emptiness isn t there, then it isn t, right Wrong And it s never apparent than when he meets Mila Sweet, beautiful Mila Hill is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart He doesn t know how to not hurt her, but he quickly realizes that he s got to figure it out because he needs her to breathe.When memories of his mother s death resurface from where he s repressed them for so long, Mila is there to catch him when the guilt starts making sense Mila is the one the one who can save him from his broken troubled heart from his issues, from the emptiness But only if he can stop being an asshole long enough to allow it He knows that And he s working on it But is that enough to make her stay