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A Cry for Hope
by
by
Beth Rinyu
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| Expected Release Date: March 21, 2014 |
~ Synopsis ~
Hope McAdams life as she knew it ended on the same day that
her eight year old son’s did.
Eight months later she's trying to regain some semblance of normality, while trying to repair her once perfect marriage to a man who was her best friend, but now a complete stranger. Coming to the painful realization that she must fix the hole that’s deep within her heart, she goes home to the place that she grew up in hopes that time and distance will heal her wounds and lead her back to the man she loves.
~ Excerpt ~
“Look at me,
Jamie! Look at me and tell me that you’re willing to walk away from
everything we have and I’ll be gone. I’m not ready to give up on us but if you
are, then just say the words and I’ll stop trying.”
“Hope, stop it!”
“Stop what? Stop
trying? Stop trying to have the man that I love more than anything in this
world love me back? Stop trying to make myself feel worthy of your love again?
What do you want me to stop Jamie?”
“What do you want me
to say Hope? That everything’s going to be okay? That things are going to be
the way they used to between us because I don’t know if that’s ever going to
happen. Or do you want me to take you upstairs and fuck you like a stranger,
the same way I’ve been for the past eight months?”
“I don’t know what I
want any more Jamie. I miss my husband. The man that I could tell anything to.
The one that I used to laugh and cry with. The one who would hold me in his
arms and comfort me whenever I was feeling down.”
“He’s gone Hope. He
drowned in that ocean the same day that Charlie did.”
I bit my lip and
fought the tears. “So what are you trying to tell me that I’m just keeping
myself afloat in this marriage only to have you never resurface?”
His eyes filled with
tears. “I wish that I could answer that question for you but I can’t. Because
the truth is, I don’t even know the answer to it myself.”
I grabbed a napkin
from the counter and wiped my eyes. I tried to catch my breath between my sobs
and gain enough composure to speak coherently. “I’m sorry for taking my eyes
off him for that split second that day. I didn’t mean for it to happen. I loved
him too and I’m hurting just as much as you. And if it makes you feel a little
better by punishing me for it this way, then I’m willing to subject myself to
it, because I still love you so much that it hurts.”
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