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150 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 22, 2016
“Let me take you to dinner.” I smirk. “We just ate.”
“Tomorrow night.”
“I have a night class.”
“Lunch? Breakfast? Mid-day snack? I don’t care. I just . . . I just want to see you.”
I bow my head, but he refuses to let me hide. Instead, he places his finger beneath my chin and gently lifts my face toward his, tenderly kissing my tear-stained cheek. “Don’t, Josh.”
“Don’t what?”
“Don’t love me.”
He closes his eyes. When they open again, they burn with emotion. “Too late.”
“I have a confession, too.”
“Oh?”
“I met your sister.”
He stops chewing. “You met Sonia?”
“She came to the diner.”
“I’m sorry, Carrie. I told her not to do that.”
“It’s okay. She’s really sweet. She wants to take me to dinner.”
“I’m going to be really pissed if my sister takes you out on a date before I do.”
It’s the strangest thing. We aren’t angry. We aren’t fighting. Our voices are soft and quiet. Mutual sounds of sorrowful acceptance and unbelievable hurt.
“Then why are you here, Josh?”
“Because I can’t stay away from you.”
“You need to try harder.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re gonna break my heart.”
“Our circumstances couldn’t have been more different, but that night, we’d been just the same. Two lost, heartbroken souls, desperate for salvation.
It was one moment in time, and in that split second, our lives changed forever.
I’m learning that life is full of those little moments. Joyful moments. Heartbreaking moments. Moments that are inconsequential. And others that take your breath away. Some moments you create. Others just find you.
In a greasy diner.
On a snowy bridge.”
“I love you because you’ve given me something to live for. You’ve given me a reason to wake up every morning. You’ve given me a reason to breathe again.”
Carrie Malone has seen enough heartbreak to last a lifetime.
Her family’s demons gave Carrie the courage to move away from home and leave her past behind. Now a college senior, she stays busy with her classes and her job at the diner. It may sound boring to some, but to Carrie, the very best thing about her new life is that every day is calm and blissfully uneventful.
That all changes the night Josh Bennett walks into her diner.
With his dirty designer suit and mud-caked shoes, Carrie’s not sure what to think about the broken man sitting at her counter. She’s even more confused when he doesn’t touch his coffee . . . and leaves his Rolex watch as a tip.
Josh Bennett has nothing to live for.
Starved for affection and deep in despair, he’s looking for a tender touch. A kind word. A giving heart.
A shattered and broken Josh finds himself standing on a city bridge, looking down into the freezing river that will undoubtedly bring an end to his pain.
He’s prepared to jump.
He’s prepared to die.
He’s not prepared for the pretty waitress who finds him there by the water’s edge.
When two lost souls find each other in the dark of the night, can they give each other a reason to breathe again?