Title: New Forever
Author: Yessi Smith
Haunted by a past
Max can’t seem to escape, he invests everything he is into Hayley. He pampers
her and shows her a love she never knew she could experience. His entire life
revolves around making her happy and eventually protecting her from his demons.
Even if that means hurting her in the process.
While Max tries to
pick up the pieces of his broken past, Hayley protects her own heart the best
way she knows how - through laughter and mayhem.
But when secrets
unravel, both must decide what is most important. Feeling more vulnerable than
ever before, they must fight for each other and for
themselves.
**This is an interconnected
standalone for Love, Always. **
Hayley
I tap Jill on the shoulder and smile when she looks back at
me. “I know you,” I tell her and she narrows her eyes at me, trying to place my
face. “I’m Hayley,” I offer. “And this is…”
“Dee Acosta!” Kelly yells, cutting me off before I can
introduce my apparently famous friend.
Both girls jump off their stools and hug Dee, who is smiling
so big you’d think they just announced her as the lottery winner. Which I guess
in the literary world she pretty much has, since she’s being recognized so
easily.
“Like I said.” I smile as I watch the three women talk. “I’m
just some silly little peon with visions of grandeur, so I hang out with famous
people.”
“And you,” Jill says, pointing at me, “are Dee’s crazy
friend.”
“That’s me.” I smile. “We’re having dinner and drinks at the
table over there. Why don’t you girls join us?”
“Okay,” Jill agrees. “But I have a firm no boys allowed
rule.”
“Perfect. We’re having a vagina-free-for-all this weekend
anyway.”
“Unless one of the models wants to sit with us.” Kelly winks
and we all nod our head.
“So why no boys?” I ask, taking another sip of my wine and
signaling our waitress for another.
“I caught my boyfriend sleeping with another girl this
morning,” Jill tells us causally as if she were advising us of the weather.
“Oh no!” Dee gasps, much more horrified than Jill seems to
be. “I’m so sorry.”
“Eh,” Jill waves her worries away. “He wasn’t much of a
catch anyway. I’m just pissed because I made him soup when he said he wasn’t
feeling well, and when I went to his apartment I saw him balls deep inside
another girl. He didn’t see me,” she rolls her eyes, “so I left and he’s been
texting me all day, trying to figure out why I’m not responding.”
Dee pats Jill’s shoulder while my mind comes up with the perfect
plan, befitting of a cheating bastard.
“Do you still have the soup you made him?” I ask, smiling
back at Dee and my new friends.
“Yeah.” Jill grins back at me, while Dee squeezes my arm
with an almost silent squeal.
“That’s L.A. Casey!” Dee whispers excitedly in my ear.
“Go finger her,” I whisper back. “Then bring her back over
here,” I say more loudly. “She can help us with our mission.”
Dee nods at me while Jill and Kelly look back at me
curiously.
***
“More!” I shout over the giggles bouncing off the walls in
our hotel room.
“More what?” L.A., better known as Lee, asks. “Wine?”
“Laxatives.” I pass three more tablets to Kelly for her to
smash and put in the ex-douchebag’s chicken soup.
“We don’t want to kill him,” Dee warns and I roll my eyes at
her.
“We’re not gonna kill him. Just give him severe diarrhea,” I
declare, sending the girls into another fit of laughter.
“One more tablet,” Jill compromises, taking it from Kelly
and crushing the last tablet finely before mixing it into the soup. “And… we’re
done!”
“Before you go, a toast.” I make sure everyone has their
wine glasses in hand. “To douchebags everywhere.”
“May they forever shit themselves,” Lee adds.
“And think of us, the women who destroyed them, as they pray
to the porcelain goddess.”
We raise our glasses and drink in celebration to our
womanhood and overall superiority before we part ways for the night.
.
Love, Always
New Forever
Yessi Smith lives in South Florida with her husband, seven
year old son and newborn baby. She is also owned by a neurotic Border Collie
and “ferocious” Rottweiler.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a
Master’s in Human Resource Management and has held several jobs, from picking
up dog poop to upper management positions. And now she hopes to leave the
business world behind so she can live full time in a world that does not exist
until she places her fingers on a keyboard and brings them to fruition.
She is the proud Momma of Life’s A Cappella and Love, Always
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