Wren McMullen is a mess. A loner with a tragic past who can't control herself, is not the way you describe a person who's exactly stable. After months long of rehab, suffering the loss of the only person she's ever genuinely loved and the nightmares of the house she was trapped in haunt her despite how far from her past she is. She's surrounded by people who want to know her but can't understand her. This girls might want to be her friends but as much progress as they think they've made they haven't even scratched the surface. It's easier if she just ends it all now. Escape from her past, from the ghost of the man who was her stability even though he wasn't stable, from her condescending mother and her loneliness. I can just finish it all right now she thought but then another voice rang in her head.
"You Wren McMullen are no coward"
And she believed him. She trusted Nikolai
Nikolai Hawthorne is the golden boy but he drives miles behind the surface. He's not over it, he's broken and as much as he loves the people that try to help him he can't be helped. But then he meets her. Wren has her own package and the last thing she needs is to help him carry his but Nikolai doesn't want her help. He's willing to carry his and her package as long as he'll be able to call it "their's". He wants her, he needs her and he's going to get her. But since Niko is Niko and he's down bad he's going to ask for it first.
Wren thinks she can push him away, keep him at arm's length, well she can't. Nikolai is going to break through her walls of defence and there's nothing in this world strong enough to stop him. She might think that he'll run off the moment things get to complicated but boy is she wrong.
Their both sad and broken. Their broken pieces don't fit in place anymore but they might fit together. Nikolai is determined. He's going to weld their pieces back together even if Wren tries to scatter them apart even farther