Time
Will Tell
By Scarlett Wells
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August
12, 2016
When Emmett helps
Viola on her first day of kindergarten, a friendship is forged. As the years
pass, their friendship blossoms. But fate tears them apart just as they are
discovering their true feelings for one another. Can their love survive time,
distance, and the challenges life throws at them? Only time will tell.
Lola’s parents are
hosting their annual New Year’s Eve party. My Dad and Alma are here celebrating
with about 100 other adults from town. Lola’s parents relented and told Lola
that I could sleep over. We haven’t done this since she was 8 and I was 10; we
were told we couldn’t anymore because of something about boys and girls, and
birds and bees that I didn’t understand at the time. I understand what they
mean now, but they know I want to spend every single last minute by my Lola.
We’re up in her
room; away from the party and the adults. We’ve hung more sheets up over the
canopy on her bed so it’s like we’re in a tent. We’re both lying on our sides
facing each other. Since it will be a long time before I see her again, I’m
doing my best to memorize every little detail about her: the number and pattern
of freckles on her nose, how incredibly long her eyelashes are, the exact shade
of green of her eyes. I trace the shape of her face with my fingertip. She
closes her eyes. My eyes focus on her mouth. I trace her lips and lean over and
kiss her. Her eyes snap open and fix on mine.
I’ve kissed her
almost every single day for the last few years; a peck on the lips or the cheek
before I leave for the night. We hug, we hold hands… but something about this
moment is very different.
She puts her hands
on either side of my face and tells me what I want, what I need to hear.
“I love you, Emmett
Allan Davis.”
I hug her to me,
putting her head on my shoulder, kissing the top of her hair. We fall asleep
clinging to each other like our lives depend on it.
Scarlett Wells has
been a voracious reader since she was a toddler sitting in the laundry basket
she used to move her library from place to place. Her love of reading has been
a constant in her life and ultimately led to her sharing her own stories.
Scarlett is a
stay-at-home mom to a sassy, precocious 5-year old, wife to a software engineer
(read: geek), and slave to two cats. If she’s not reading or writing, she can
be found at Target, trapped under an avalanche of laundry, guzzling wine while
she’s cooking dinner, or playing with her munchkin.
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