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Lily of the Valley
(Flowering #1.5)
by
Sarah Daltry
(Flowering #1.5)
by
Sarah Daltry
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18+ New Adult romance
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~ Synopsis ~
You
met them in Forget Me Not. Now, hear Jack’s story.
Plagued
by a dark past, Jack sees college as a way out. Desperate to escape the area
where he grew up, the people who know his secrets, and his own family, he deals
with his problems through alcohol and sex.
When
he first sees Lily, she’s the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something
about her makes Jack rethink everything he knows and assumes about other
people. Now, with the help of his best friend and lover, Jack has to decide if
he wants to pursue something that he knows will only end badly.
Can
Lily be one of the few people who can see Jack for who he really is – or will
his darkness be too much for her to handle?
~ Excerpt ~
At work,
though, the people are real. Both the customers and the staff. During the busy
times, we get more douchebags, mostly my classmates who probably should be in
the library and not eating a hangover away. Mal is also on this morning. He’s a
recovering alcoholic, a total asshole to nearly everyone, and an incredibly
shitty employee in a lot of ways. But the dude can cook and when I walk in a
couple minutes late with no explanation, Mal just shrugs and hands me an order.
“Big parties
last night?”
“Huge party. I
spent the night reading Dostoevsky.”
“He a
scientist?” Mal flips over the largest slab of ham I have ever seen. For all
the sort of dive element of this place, the food is still fucking great.
“Yeah,
something like that.”
“Eh. Never
cared for all that mumbo jumbo. Don’t know any of it and I’m doing just fine.”
That’s
something else I admire about Mal. By no one’s standards is he doing just fine.
He has a tendency to fall off the wagon as soon as he approaches his ten month
anniversary – which he has been doing for likely longer than I have been alive.
He’s been married and divorced five times. He has three kids who don’t speak to
him. Finally, he only eats the food from the café and he lives in a motel out
by the prison. Oh – and he works as a short order cook in a shitty café. But in
his mind, life is just fine. Sometimes, I think I need to get a hold of
whatever it is that keeps him from losing his shit.
We settle into
our routine, since there is little Mal and I can talk about. I can’t discuss
Raskolnikov’s character traits and Mal simply has nothing to say. So we cook in
silence, but it’s comfortable. After everything I have been through, I feel a
strange affinity for this place. Even thinking about leaving when I eventually
get the hell out of town makes me a little sad. I hate that it makes me sad. I
want to leave with no connections, with no strings.
I go to stick
an order on the counter for Liz when I see her. Strawberries. She’s with some
dude, who is basically what I pictured when she mentioned her boyfriend. Broad,
tan, blond, and eating like a fucking pig. I don’t know what they’re talking
about and I can’t see her face, but he loves her. It’s immediately recognizable
and I hate him for it. I don’t even know why I hate him for it, since at least maybe
he’s not as much of a dick as I would have expected. If we had been placing
bets, I would have gone with the safe assumption he had something else on the
side to make up for having such a sweet and pure girlfriend. I wonder if maybe
she isn’t as innocent as she looks. The thought makes me horny again. I don’t
get what is so damn attractive about this typical girl, but something makes me
want to taste every inch of her skin.
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~ About The Author ~
Sarah Daltry writes erotica and romance that
ranges from sweet to steamy. She moves around a lot and has trouble committing
to things. Lily of the
Valley is her third full length novel, although she also has
several story collections and two novellas available. Her other novels are Forget
Me Not, the story that tells Lily’s version of events, and Bitter Fruits, which will be released
by Escape Publishing in December. When Sarah isn’t writing, she tends to
waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual
zombies, and simply staring out the window.
~ Connect with Sarah ~
Website: http://sarahdaltry.com
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SarahDaltry
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