This is how I picture Hope…

 

And if I had to sum her up in one word, I’d use this one word…

 

Excerpt…

Opening his eyes, he studied her heart-shaped face. Without all that hair, she didn’t look so fragile, he realized. Not that she really was, he was coming to realize. A fragile woman would have broken after what had been done to her. No matter what people thought, Hope hadn’t broken. She had been forced to bend, to take unimaginable shit and heartbreak.

But she hadn’t broken.

She had to be one of the strongest women he’d ever met.

Still, just looking at her flooded him with the most insane urges—the need to protect her. The need to touch her. The need to fuck her. The need to see her laugh. To smile…at him.

 

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Curious…if you had to sum up a character in one word, who would it be, and what is the word?