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. **
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Max
I wish someone would have told me what
happened when love was stripped away from you. How defenseless you’d become,
how vulnerable you’d be.
It was stupid of me to care about what
others may think of me when they see me in passing. So stupid. But each person
I pass is like a crux to my heart, damning me to a lifetime without everything
I didn’t even know I wanted. As I walk past my spot from the night before, I’m
not in my right frame of mind. I’m only thinking of Hayley and the many scars
forever etched on my heart.
The first blow to my stomach doesn’t even
register—that’s how far gone I am. But I feel it the moment my nose makes
contact with a fist and it breaks for the third time. It happens slowly at
first and then all at once. There are five, maybe six of them. Not very big in
stature, but big enough in number for me to know I can’t fight them. Not with
their fists, feet, and bats making constant contact with my suddenly battered
body.
So I do the only reasonable thing I can
think of. I take off my backpack and protect it and its contents with my body.
I take the beating without a word, while I protect my only means of survival.
As long as I have my laptop, I’ll be okay. I’d come out of this beating just as
I had done in the past with previous beatings. This was no different than the
others.
I see the boy from last night crouch down
in front of me and I sneer at him when he spits in my face.
“Ain’t so tough now, are ya?” he asks and I
laugh.
“Says the little shit who needs a posse to
beat up one man,” I counter.
I see his foot slowly rise off the ground
and feel it when it makes impact on the side of my face. Within seconds,
everything goes black.
Love,
Always
New
Forever
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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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