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Three fateful encounters....
♥ Two heart-breaking tragedies....
♥ One last chance to get it right.
From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo, comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny.
Over the course of five years, Mikki and Crush cross paths on three separate occasions. Their first encounter changes Mikki's life forever, but their second meeting leaves them both buried beneath the emotional wreckage of a violent attack. Mikki is left with more questions and grief than she can handle, while Crush is forced to forget the girl who saved his life.
Now nineteen years old, Mikki Gladstone has decided she's tired of the mind-numbing meds. She books a flight to Los Angeles to end her life far away from her loving, though often distant, family.
Twenty-one-year-old Crush has always channeled his blackest thoughts into his music, but he's never had great aspirations. He decides to fly to Los Angeles to record a demo of the only song he's never performed in public; a song he wrote for a girl he doesn't even know: Black Box. He has no expectations of fame and he's never felt like his life had any purpose... until he meets Mikki in Terminal B.
When Mikki and Crush cross paths for the third time in Terminal B, neither has any idea who the other person is; until they slowly piece together their history and realize that fate has more in store for them than just another love story.
♥ Two heart-breaking tragedies....
♥ One last chance to get it right.
From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo, comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny.
Over the course of five years, Mikki and Crush cross paths on three separate occasions. Their first encounter changes Mikki's life forever, but their second meeting leaves them both buried beneath the emotional wreckage of a violent attack. Mikki is left with more questions and grief than she can handle, while Crush is forced to forget the girl who saved his life.
Now nineteen years old, Mikki Gladstone has decided she's tired of the mind-numbing meds. She books a flight to Los Angeles to end her life far away from her loving, though often distant, family.
Twenty-one-year-old Crush has always channeled his blackest thoughts into his music, but he's never had great aspirations. He decides to fly to Los Angeles to record a demo of the only song he's never performed in public; a song he wrote for a girl he doesn't even know: Black Box. He has no expectations of fame and he's never felt like his life had any purpose... until he meets Mikki in Terminal B.
When Mikki and Crush cross paths for the third time in Terminal B, neither has any idea who the other person is; until they slowly piece together their history and realize that fate has more in store for them than just another love story.
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I successfully
manage to get her to slow her downward slide into Crunksville by asking Jimmy
to switch us to tap beer, which he cuts with a little club soda. Then I keep
her talking to keep her mouth busy. Soon, three hours have passed and we’ve
only had three more beers. Unfortunately, with the lack of food, she’s looking
pretty loose as she leans over the bar with the side of her head propped up on
her fist.
“And that’s the
tragic story of why my dad gave Bradley away when I was six.”
She’s just spent
the past twenty minutes telling me the story of her dog Bradley Snickers, a
chocolate Labrador Retriever. The only pet she ever had.
“You took your
dog for a walk on thin ice to see if it would hold you both?”
“I’m not saying
it wasn’t a stupid thing to do, but I was only six years old. I think my dad
may have overreacted just a little.” She guzzles the dregs of beer in her glass
and looks up at me, her eyes unfocused and a bit teary. “I loved that fucking
dog. It was the only thing I ever loved. I would never have purposely hurt
him.” I reach up to brush a piece of hair away from her eyes and she smacks my
hand away. “Don’t touch me. I didn’t say you could touch me!”
“Sorry. I – I’m
sorry.”
“You don’t have
to be sorry, just don’t do it.” She chuckles a little after she says this.
“That’s what my mom used to say to me when I got in trouble and I tried to
apologize for being bad. She’d say, “Don’t apologize; just don’t do it.” Like
it’s that easy to always do the right thing.”
“Mikki?”
“What?” she
snaps at me as she slides her empty beer glass away so she can rest her head on
top of her arms.
“Where are you
staying tonight?”
She heaves a
deep sigh as she closes her eyes. “Don’t know. Right here seems just fine.”
Jimmy raises his
eyebrows as he pretends to be busy popping the seeds out of the lemon wedges he
just cut. I can’t help but watch her face with a bit of awe. Even with her
black hair, her lip ring, and the tattoos on her fingers, she looks so sweet
and innocent. I feel strangely protective of her, like I should tell Jimmy to
buzz off. She can spend the night wherever she wants. Can’t you see she’s
broken?
I can tell by
the shiny bit of drool accumulating at the corner of her mouth that she’s
already beginning to fall asleep. I take a risk and reach for her. Gently
grasping her arm, I give it an easy shake. She doesn’t flinch this time.
She groans
softly and her eyelids flutter open. “Sorry. I didn’t sleep last night.”
“Maybe we should
get you a room so you can get some rest.”
She pushes
herself up from the bar and blinks a few times. “If you try anything I’ll kill
you,” she mutters, reaching for her purse. “And I don’t mean that figuratively.
I will actually murder you. I have nothing to lose.”
“Not if I kill
you first.”
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cassia Leo grew up in California and
has lived in three different countries. She loves to travel and her dream is to
one day score a record deal based on her awesome shower singing skills. She is
the author of the Shattered Hearts series (Relentless,
Pieces of You, Bring Me Home, Abandon) and the Luke and Chase series.
Website: http://cassialeo.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authorcassialeo
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