Inked Armor
Clipped Wings #2
Author: Helena Hunting
Reading Level: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Review Source: Gallery Books
In this follow-up to Clipped Wings, the emotional love story continues between Hayden and Tenley; two young people who desperately want to love and be loved but are afraid to completely let go of their pasts.
In the wake of losing Tenley Page, tattooist Hayden Stryker's tumultuous past is haunting him. Plagued by nightmares about the murder of his parents, Hayden reaches out again to Tenley. Having run from the man she doesn't believe she deserves, Tenley finally lays her guilt to rest. Despite their intense physical attraction, Hayden and Tenley struggle to repair their fragile emotional connection. As Hayden gets closer to the truth, he must find a way to reconcile his guilt over his parents' death in order to keep the woman who finally cracked his armor, and found her way into his heart.
Tenley thought that she had escaped her past. The past which involved her fiance that perished in a plane crash, on their way to their destination wedding. His very selfish brother wants what Tenley has, and she is not about to give it up. Tenley thought that she could escape him by moving. The past came back to haunt her, which involved leaving the man that she now realizes is her one true love. Meanwhile, Hayden struggles with the death of his parents when he was younger. The nightmares continue and when he can no longer bare them anymore, he reaches out for Tenley in hopes of the love and support he once had. The terrible thing about these nightmares, is that they start off about his parents, and end with him losing Tenley. Those are what bothers him the most. The nightmares keep him up at night, giving him three, maybe four hours of sleep if he was lucky. Hayden knows that he can not continue this way. He needs Tee back in his life, she is the woman for him, she is his world. It is so painful for him to go on without her in his life.
Hayden and Tenley struggle to find their way back to one another, because in their heart of hearts, they know that they belong together. The passion in the bedroom however, is beyond recognition. A very unbridled passion for one another and one in which helps them with their grief. What I truly love about this story is the fact that there was real pain and tragedy involved for the both of them. It wasn't about her leaving and them reconciling as if nothing ever happened. When Tenley walked out of his life, Hayden had to endure that pain. He had to learn to trust again, which is not an easy feat. Hayden hurt in ways that you just wouldn't predict from such a hard exterior. The story shows us that life isn't always what we perceive it to be. We saw vulnerability. We saw pain, We also certainly saw how Hayden desperately tries to regain that trust from her. Life is not easy and Helena knows this, as it is expressed in her writing. I absolutely fell head over heels with this couple, and being pulled in to feel as though I personally know the characters is not an easy task. Once again, Helena Hunting created a masterpiece. Make sure to pick up your copy of Inked Armor today, you will thank me! Happy Reading!!
Check out our Clipped Wings (Clipped Wings #1) Book Review
Excerpt:
Time went on and on. An endless cycle of sleep, wake, bear the agony, and repeat. I hated time.
Tenley had been gone for three weeks. Every day without her was sensory deprivation, drawn out and torturous from beginning to end. The first week, I called her every day. Her phone always went to voice mail. She never called back. I stopped calling because it sucked to know I'd been discarded so easily.
Memories of her were everywhere: home, work, Serendipity. I couldn't escape. So at least I understood why she came to Chicago in the first place: to get away from the ceaseless reminders. I couldn't figure out what compelled her to want to go back, though. She could run from me all she wanted, but returning to the place She'd fled from didn't make much sense. Unless she was looking to shackle herself to the guilt again. It was easy to deny the possibility of a future when she let the past drag her down. I knew. I'd done that for years until Tenley came along.
There was a soft knock on the door to the tattoo room. Lisa was checking up on me again.
Inked Armor was closed, but for the past three weeks I'd spent most of my free time at the shop or at Tenley's empty apartment. Being alone in my condo was unbearable. At least in the shop I could pretend thing weren't so shitty. Hints of her presence still lurked like shadows, but not in the same way as her apartment or y condo. It was depressing as hell. Regardless, I went to her apartment every day, if only to briefly check on her things. On the worst days, I stayed for hours and steeped myself in the pain of being there without her.
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