Six weeks later, in that same orchard with peach blossoms on the trees and dew tipping the grass, on the very spot she died, my daddy took his life with his own gun.
I guess sometimes love makes you forget things can get better.
I guess he didn’t see a bend in the road up ahead.
I guess he only saw a straight line leading deeper and deeper into black.
My daddy was the star of his high school football team… but Life threw him a pass he couldn’t catch with Momma’s death.
Our world changed forever that winter.
Dolly says love is like a butterfly, soft and gentle as a sigh, but from what I’ve seen of love, I think it’s more lik
e a tornado, shocking and violent and so powerful it can rip your soul out of your mouth…
It’s faster than you can run, and it blows one house away while leaving the next one peacefully standing.
I didn’t know which way love would take me, quietly or with the roar of a freight train. I should’ve known. I should’ve realized the moment I saw him.
It was both. It was quiet as the brush of peach fuzz, but it left my insides in splinters. It twisted my lungs and lifted me up so high only to throw me down with a force that rang my ears and flooded my eyes.
It all started the summer before they left, a month before my brother was sent to fight in a war everybody said was over.
It all started in the kitchen of my momma’s house…
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Boss of Me
Patton Fletcher is
?Demanding,
?Driven,
?Sexy AF, and
?My New Boss.
My sister says don’t fall for him. I say don’t worry
I’m not about to let some arrogant, young CEO derail my dreams.
Or insult my wardrobe.
I don’t care about his deep brown eyes or the way the muscle moves in his square jaw when he’s pissed.
I won’t fall for his power or how sexy he fills out that suit.
I said I could resist him.
I was wrong…
Raquel Morgan is Trouble.
She’s stubborn, independent, and a fighter.