With Whom We Spend Our Lives
AUTHOR: K.S. Thomas
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
COVER DESIGN: KG Cover Art
CONTENT WARNING: Adult language
Love? Sure, I believe in it. I've
even experienced it. Once. Harper Richards - the girl who got away. Or rather,
the one I let go.
It should go without saying that
it wasn't by choice. A guy like me, doesn't dare to dream of getting a girl
like Harper even once, he sure as sh*t doesn't let her go on a whim. Nor does
he ever think for a moment he'll get a second chance with her. Even if he wants
one.
I want one. I NEED one.
And now...through some twisted
turn of fate and a wedding I never should have been invited to...I just might
get one.
I need to turn around and walk
out. It’s the right thing to do. I have no business being in here in the first
place. But I can’t leave. So, I just stand here. My eyes traveling the four
walls of her room. The mirror with the frame she spray painted a tacky hot pink
and silver. The cork board still filled with pictures of her and her mom and
handwritten notes of all of her favorite quotes. She’s added a few to her
collection. I have a sick need to know what they are.
Listening for any sounds from the
hall, I slowly move toward the cork board. I’m not going to touch anything. If
papers overlap, that’s all there is to it. I’ll have to live with not knowing.
Squinting, I lean in close. I read through four of them, recognizing three when
something catches my eye.
“Holy shit.” My hand is hovering
over the mess of papers and pins while I remind myself repeatedly not to touch.
I don’t need to. I can see it just the way it is. The corner of a picture still
peeking through the stack of note scraps she’s used to cover it. I know that
picture. I’m in that picture.
“Pickle?”
Shit.
“I wasn’t touching.” Because
somehow that really makes a difference when you’re snooping around in your
ex-girlfriend’s bedroom. Not touching.
“Relax. I’m not Meg and that hand
isn’t hovering over Harper’s boob.” Gina comes up beside me. “Something hidden
under there you’ve been looking for?” She nods at the tacked on papers covering
the board in layers.
“I haven’t been looking for it.”
I lower my hand. “I had no idea it was still here to be found.”
She hooks her arm around mine and
starts to turn me around, leading me back toward the doorway and out of
Harper’s room.
“I wouldn’t have brought you back
here if it was gone for good, Cole.” She’s walking me back down the hall and I
feel somewhat like a mental patient who wandered off and is carefully being
escorted back to his padded cell, the way she’s using her calm mommy voice and
taking oddly slow steps while we move. Then we turn into the music room and
normal Gina is back. “But you can’t go all stalker on her ass two seconds after
you show up here. Ease into that shit, Pickle. I can tell you without doubt,
girls don’t appreciate people sifting through their most private of thoughts,
especially not when those thoughts include ex-boyfriends they’re supposed to
have forgotten about years ago.”
Dog Lover who likes her pastries
full of cream and sugar….oh…and I write some ;-)
Aside from being an author, I am
also a mom to a beautiful 5 year old little girl. I tell everyone I named her
after my great-grandmother (because that’s the mature answer), but really, I
named her after my favorite princess – just so happens I got lucky and they had
the same name…If I wasn’t a writer, I would work on a horse ranch – I’m an
animal lover (in addition to dogs, horses are at the top of my list). I wear
flip-flops pretty much everywhere I go. I would rather stay awake until 5 am
than get up at 5 am (years of bar tending have left their mark), if I can, I’m
going to the beach AND I will always be nice to people who bring me
chocolate…or coffee…if you bring me both, I’ll probably love you forever.A
gypsy at heart, I write the way I live, following the story wherever it may
lead, always ready to start the next one. This is clearly reflected in my body
of work which to date includes everything from Children’s Lit to Thrillers.
I happily reside in sunny Florida
(for now) and always enjoy hearing from fellow readers!!
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