Our Hearts Grew Dark

I can't keep anything. That's my curse.

Family? My mother abandoned me when I was a kid and my frosty father only wanted to make me his clone, sitting at a desk on a computer instead of swinging a bat on a stadium.

Love? My girlfriend of six years left me for my best friend. I lost her when I lost me.

Friends? I lost the only two that mattered.

My future? I lost that to injuries from a drunk who got behind the wheel and made sure I'd never set foot on a stadium again.

I had plans and those plans failed.

Now, I'm taking it all back. I didn't get the justice I deserve so I'm packing up and handing it out myself.

While seeking retribution for the life that was stolen from me, I don't need distractions or connections. So of course a mishap on the road leads me to a pitstop in a small western town called Coyote's Cross.

And I connect with her.

Jolee. Jo.

A woman ten years older than me carrying the weight of her own tragedy on her belt.

The way her demons dance with mine is distracting. How she makes me crave things I'm not meant to have is distracting.

When she crashes my passenger seat for company and a breather, we fall into a push and pull, and unless she's here to break my curse, she can't save me from this.

Retribution is all I have left.