RELEASE DAY REVIEW: Always Been Yours – Valleywood Season Three – Katy Manz

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Hearts were broken, and years have passed. Is it too late to find their Happily Ever After?

Bryce Maxwell left Valleywood ten years ago in hopes of living his dream of being a legend in hockey. No matter how many rings he collected and how many fans adored him, something always called him to return home. Due to a career-changing injury, he now has the chance to follow the siren call home. But will the one true love he left there still be waiting?

Connor Hughs only knew love once, when he was seventeen years old and in the arms of his best friend. But he knew he couldn’t keep his friend in Valleywood when he had the talent to make his hockey dreams come true. So he let him go, breaking his heart in the process. No matter how often Connor has tried to find love again, there is no comparison to the one that got away.

Now that Bryce is back home and knows it’s where he was always meant to be, can he and Connor overcome the years of hurt and distance that came between them and embrace what could be? Especially now that they know why they could never get over the other, Fate doesn’t let you forget your true mate.

This was a sweet story about two men, Bryce Maxwell and Connor Hughs both shifters who have spent ten years apart while Bryce fulfilled his dream of being a hockey star and Connor let him go rather than hold him back.

Now an injury has caused Bryce to return home to Valleywood with the hope of reuniting with the man he has never stopped loving. Bryce realizes that Connor and he are fated mates and since Bryce left before the age of maturity, he had no way of knowing Connor was his one and only.

Bryce refuses to give up on mating Connor, but Connor is afraid of opening his heart again if and when Bryce returns to hockey. Connor also realizes that Bryce is his mate, but fear is standing in his way. What if Bryce leaves again and he is once again left with a broken heart that he isn’t sure will mend again.

Bryce has no intention of leaving. He knows that Valleywood is where he belongs and with his mate, but he will have to gain Connor’s trust, and he will do whatever it takes to do that. Connor never asked Bryce to stay and didn’t offer to travel with him or try a long-distance relationship. His parents were ill, and he couldn’t leave them alone so now it is ten years later and his love for Bryce is as strong as ever, so he has a decision to make stop doubting and start acting.

I am unfamiliar with the Valleywood series but am happy to have had a chance to become acquainted with it.