Axel I didn’t know what to believe. I had been lied to so much in my life. From my mother, my father, my extended family. My ex. My friends. No one was exempt from this list. That’s why I didn’t trust anyone. I couldn’t. At least, that was until Brandy came along. I couldn’t explain it, but I just knew I could trust her. Deep down in my gut, it was there and it scared me. She wasn’t like anyone I knew. She was real. And, I guess, I could also relate to her. She had lost her mother. She was in an abusive relationship with her father. In those big bedroom eyes of hers, I saw the same lost and broken look I once had. I couldn’t explain it, but I had this deep, almost primal need to help her. To help bring back the life into her eyes and spirit. To just help get her back on track to findi