Title: Breathless
Author: Vanessa Marie
Release Date: Nov 11, 2014
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For once in
Charlie’s life, she has something she'd never allowed herself
to have before.
Hope.
All because of Sam’s love.
He fought for her. No matter the cost.
He loved her even when she couldn't allow herself to
feel loved.
Now, when things feel like they might go smoothly for once
in her life...
The unexpected happens. Her fate. Her constant date with
Death.
A reality that completely blindsides her when life once
again rears it’s ugly head.
Shattering any sense of a future she ever felt she could
grasp, even if only for a second.
Will she give in and surrender to her fate?
Will she retreat, pushing away everyone she loves to hold
onto her secrets?
Or will she fight? Fight for Sam, fight for their love, the
way he's always fought for
her?
She wasn't
really sure what to expect when she pulled up in front of the estate that her
GPS had taken her to. Over the last month, she'd played the scenario
out in her head at least a million times but in the end, they were always happy
she'd sought them out. Charlie paused at the end of the half circle
driveway. Her heart double thumped in her chest as sweat beads formed
on her forehead. Nervous couldn't begin to describe how she felt. Even
so, she let out a deep breath, pulled into the driveway, and parked her truck
at the furthest end.
The more she tried
to steady her hands, the more they shook. She grabbed onto the steering wheel
and closed her eyes.
Calm the
hell down. Just breathe. They're only people. It's not like
I'm meeting Richard Castle.
She giggled a loud
thinking of the fictional writer in one of her favorite shows. Taking a series
of deep breaths, she wished she would have told Sam what she was doing instead
of running off to deal with this alone. However, she’d been dealing
with things for so long by herself, she didn't know if she'd
ever get used to doing things as a team. Letting him in on everything
she was dealing with internally was even
harder.
It’s
now or never. Time to put up or shut
up.
She willed herself
out of her truck and up the driveway to the front door. The speech she'd
prepared on the four hour drive north had disappeared from her mind. Shit,
shit, shit. What am I going to say? Before her mind gave her the
chance to back out, her body had already climbed the concrete stairs to the
massive oak front door and knocked. She stood back and shoved her hands in her
front pockets. Her shoulders were raised almost to her earlobes and her stance
was rigid.
The
front door opened and an old man stood before her. "Can I help
you?"
She just stood
there, stock still…unable to move. He was right
there in front of her. Her grandfather…the man that had set up a
trust to make sure she was taken care of for
life.
He was the same man
who had abandoned her and her dad when they needed them the
most.
Thoughts swirled in
her head. She couldn't get her words to connect into sentences.
"Hi," she blurted
out.
The old
man's face turned white, like he'd seen a ghost.
"Angie?" He rubbed his face furiously and his eyes welled
with tears.
Charlie sucked in a
stifled breath, not realizing she had tears streaming down her face at the
mention of her mother's name.
Always the cause of
shenanigans, Vanessa is a heavily tattooed, sarcastic motorcycle enthusiast who
started her career as a Jeep tech at the age of sixteen. The happily married
mother of three little monsters—oops, children—lives in
Kentucky by way of Las Vegas, Nevada. Once her life took a different
direction—sidelined by Heart Disease at 26 and becoming a pacemaker
recipient—she decided to write as a creative outlet, and Heartless
was born. She realizes life can be dark clouds and acid rain at times, but her
outlook on life puts a positive and sarcastic spin on it
all.
Thank you for sharing! <3
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