Synopsis
The innocent girl with a delinquent heart has
to live with her bad choices. Secret hope and hurt feel like falling while she
learns how to breathe again, but there's still freedom in trouble.
The runaway with blacked-out eyes is losing his grip. Crushing two hearts in one fist, his addiction bends rules and breaks deals, but the boy born for bliss isn't going anywhere without a fight.
Love is knowing they should stay away, but love is illogical at best.
She's afraid to let go.
He won't let her.
This is how silliness and foolishness grow up.
Here, forever is a lie.
The runaway with blacked-out eyes is losing his grip. Crushing two hearts in one fist, his addiction bends rules and breaks deals, but the boy born for bliss isn't going anywhere without a fight.
Love is knowing they should stay away, but love is illogical at best.
She's afraid to let go.
He won't let her.
This is how silliness and foolishness grow up.
Here, forever is a lie.
Excerpts
I stand silent, breathing in through my
nose and out my mouth. Tonight’s argument is years of frustration stacked and
hidden, too tall to push away anymore. A little trigger is all it takes, and we
end up like this, saying things we don’t mean, taking our aggravation out on
each other.My heart pumps misguided love.
“This isn’t how it’s supposed to be,” it beats. “But that’s your boy—aimless and crazy for you.”
Knowing that I had a role on his
spiral to the bottom kills me. As his parents continue to fail him, I should be
the one that steps forward and says, “This is wrong.”
But to do so at this point in his madness
would be betrayal, and I have to handle his trust with care.
Inhaling an uneven breath, I watch
him under the moon’s glow washing out his already pale complexion. Icy wind
blows my boy’s white tee against his slender body under his unzipped hoodie,
and his hands shake at his sides.
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Meet The
Authors
Mary
Elizabeth
Mary Elizabeth is an up and
coming author who finds words in chaos, writing stories about the skeletons
hanging in your closets. Known as The Realist, she is one half of The
Elizabeths--a duo brave enough to never hide the truth.
Mary was born
and raised in Southern California. She is a wife, mother of four beautiful
children, and dog tamer to one enthusiastic Pit Bull and a prissy Chihuahua.
She's a hairstylist by day but contemporary fiction, new adult author by night.
Mary can often be found finger twirling her hair and chewing on a stick of
licorice while writing and rewriting a sentence over and over until it's
perfect. She discovered her talent for tale-telling accidentally, but
literature is in her chokehold. And she's not letting go until every story is
told.
"The heart
is deceitful above all things and beyond cure."--Jeremiah 17:9
Sarah
Elizabeth
A soft
spoken revolutionary, love's listener was born on Bastille Day. she dance-walks
under the stars and prefers to write while the sun wakes up. her blood marks
State Avenue. her roots are darker than trouble's eyes, and her favorite colour
is The 1975.
Sarah
Elizabeth is the author of Innocents, Delinquents, Don't Let Me Go, and various
other projects under various other pen names.
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