With Whom We
Spend Our Lives
By K.S. Thomas
By K.S. Thomas
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: KG Cover Art
Content Warning: Adult language
Love? Sure, I believe in it. I've even experienced it.
Once. Harper Richards - the girl who got away. Or rather, the one I let go.
It should go without saying that it wasn't by choice.
A guy like me, doesn't dare to dream of getting a girl like Harper even once,
he sure as sh*t doesn't let her go on a whim. Nor does he ever think for a
moment he'll get a second chance with her. Even if he wants one.
I want one. I NEED one.
And now...through some twisted turn of fate and a
wedding I never should have been invited to...I just might get one.
I need to turn around and walk out. It’s the right
thing to do. I have no business being in here in the first place. But I can’t
leave. So, I just stand here. My eyes traveling the four walls of her room. The
mirror with the frame she spray painted a tacky hot pink and silver. The cork
board still filled with pictures of her and her mom and handwritten notes of
all of her favorite quotes. She’s added a few to her collection. I have a sick
need to know what they are.
Listening for any sounds from the hall, I slowly move
toward the cork board. I’m not going to touch anything. If papers overlap,
that’s all there is to it. I’ll have to live with not knowing. Squinting, I
lean in close. I read through four of them, recognizing three when something
catches my eye.
“Holy shit.” My hand is hovering over the mess of
papers and pins while I remind myself repeatedly not to touch. I don’t need to.
I can see it just the way it is. The corner of a picture still peeking through
the stack of note scraps she’s used to cover it. I know that picture. I’m in
that picture.
“Pickle?”
Shit.
“I wasn’t touching.” Because somehow that really makes
a difference when you’re snooping around in your ex-girlfriend’s bedroom. Not
touching.
“Relax. I’m not Meg and that hand isn’t hovering over
Harper’s boob.” Gina comes up beside me. “Something hidden under there you’ve
been looking for?” She nods at the tacked on papers covering the board in
layers.
“I haven’t been looking for it.” I lower my hand. “I
had no idea it was still here to be found.”
She hooks her arm around mine and starts to turn me
around, leading me back toward the doorway and out of Harper’s room.
“I wouldn’t have brought you back here if it was gone
for good, Cole.” She’s walking me back down the hall and I feel somewhat like a
mental patient who wandered off and is carefully being escorted back to his
padded cell, the way she’s using her calm mommy voice and taking oddly slow
steps while we move. Then we turn into the music room and normal Gina is back.
“But you can’t go all stalker on her ass two seconds after you show up here.
Ease into that shit, Pickle. I can tell you without doubt, girls don’t
appreciate people sifting through their most private of thoughts, especially
not when those thoughts include ex-boyfriends they’re supposed to have
forgotten about years ago.”
Dog Lover who likes her pastries full of cream and
sugar….oh…and I write some ;-)
Aside from being an author, I am also a mom to a
beautiful 5 year old little girl. I tell everyone I named her after my
great-grandmother (because that’s the mature answer), but really, I named her
after my favorite princess – just so happens I got lucky and they had the same
name…If I wasn’t a writer, I would work on a horse ranch – I’m an animal lover
(in addition to dogs, horses are at the top of my list). I wear flip-flops
pretty much everywhere I go. I would rather stay awake until 5 am than get up
at 5 am (years of bar tending have left their mark), if I can, I’m going to the
beach AND I will always be nice to people who bring me chocolate…or coffee…if
you bring me both, I’ll probably love you forever.A gypsy at heart, I write the
way I live, following the story wherever it may lead, always ready to start the
next one. This is clearly reflected in my body of work which to date includes
everything from Children’s Lit to Thrillers.
I happily reside in sunny Florida (for now) and always
enjoy hearing from fellow readers!!
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