The Beat Around Us (The Heartbeat Series, #2)

Anna is still the abused runaway. And Silas is still the tortured rock star at heart.When you're beautifully-broken, how can you love someone?Pregnant. Emotional. Tired all the time. Anna struggles to keep up her grades and hide the truth. After failing an exam, she spirals into self-doubt and worry. How can she be a mother if she can't even pass a stupid test? Then there's the complication of Silas. She doesn't want the feelings he creates—those romantic thoughts, the magnetic attraction. All she's ever known from a man is force and ugliness.So a scared, confused Anna pushes Silas away. And a stubborn, haunted Silas lets her.Silas works extra shifts, he exercises like his life depends on it, and he longs for the twisted release that only comes from drugs. He can't walk into that darkness again though, not and stay sane. But without the drugs, all he can think about is Anna. Lost-in-the-world, gorgeous Anna. And that's killing him.But then a seemingly-innocent school event sends Anna running to Silas for protection.The past is a shadow. In a heartbeat, it can come back again.Start part two of this three-part redemption romance now to find out