He is my strength. The power within me that helps me move forward. He possesses me, pulling the deepest part of my submission out of my very being. He reveals the edge of our love that strikes like lightning in a storm. He is Parker Reed. And he is mine. Keely Price has learned to forget. She is taught to move on, embracing the world of dominance and submission. She craves the healing and trust that can only come with time. After Parker Reed’s untimely disappearance, Keely has no choice but to channel the strength that he has given her. Obstacles are thrown in her path when a vicious secret is revealed, bringing her to her knees of the ultimate defeat. Can she battle the evil that has taken a piece of her before the darkness shadows her life forever?

We live. We love. We die. He is my ultimate undoing. She is my strength. He will destroy me. She will make me whole. I need him more than the control that he craves. I need her more than I need my next breath. He knows me. She sees me. As much as I want to, I can’t let him in. As much as I’ve tried, I can’t let her go. Together, we need him.

I was sent away for protection. Pulled from a world and forced into another, I lost myself on the way. No emotion. Only walls to hide feelings that were now masked behind a barrier. Matteo Santos opened my eyes. He helped me see through the darkness that consumed my soul. He breathed life into my lungs, gripping my heart until it beat again. With a darkness of his own, it haunted him, turning him into a beautiful Master of seduction and pain. Through trust and love, we would battle our pasts together. Before they took control...completely. "Not everything is as it seems." ~ Beautiful Pain

Our world changed five years ago, and it left behind this gaping hole in our relationship.We were now trying to figure out a way to move past a tragedy without losing ourselves in the process.Married, with a son, we needed to communicate but neither of us wanted to talk about our loss. Instead, we focused on our little boy.Finally, after having had enough, we took a trip, learned new things about each other, and fell into an even deeper kind of love.We revealed new truths about one another and because of that, we could come out of this stronger in the end.Author note: With You is part of the Perfectly Stated Series but Meadow and Shade can originally be found in With Us, book 2 in The Next Generation Series. With You is a continuation of their story and is 5 years after With Us takes place.