“He’s a broken man, but he isn’t broken because of me. He was broken before he met me. Sometimes people think if they love a broken person enough, they can be what finally repairs them, but the problem with that is the other person just ends up broken, too.”

Lily and Ryle have settled into a co-parenting rhythm that is for the most part working for them when Lily runs into Atlas, her childhood best friend and first love. After two years of separation from Ryle, Lily is finally ready and excited that the timing for her and Atlas finally seems right. So when he asks her out, she says yes. The only problem is that Ryle is still a complication in her life and Atlas is the one man he might just lose it to find out he's involved in the lives of his ex-wife and daughter.

This book was a classic case of not needing to see what comes after the story. I just didn't need this at all. I didn't love the first one, so it took me a really long time to pick this up, but I'm trying my hardest right now to actually read what is on my shelf, so I finally read this one and I wish I hadn't bothered. This could have been written as the actual epilogue and saved me 300 pages of my time. With that said, getting to see an Atlas POV was kind of interesting...but it is also the ONLY thing that prevented this from getting 1 star.