If You Stay (Beautifully Broken 1) 24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole Seriously He’s a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to ot his reasons Hisa hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn’t understand why What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with rew up, he tried to be the kid his father alanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didn’t work His dad couldn’t overcoh to notice and Pax couldn’t keep up the impossible perfect façade So he slipped far, far fros and woliness, the black void that he doesn’t want to deal with If he pretends that the e And it’s never more apparent than when he meets Mila Sweet, beautiful Mila Hill is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart He doesn’t kno to not hurt her, but he quickly realizes that he’s got to figure it out because he needs her to breathe When memories of his mother’s death resurface fro, Mila is there to catch hi sense Mila is the one…the one who can save him from his broken troubled heart; from his issues, fro an asshole long enough to allow it He knows that And he’s working on it But is that enough to make her stay?