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One Day Soon
by
A. Meredith Walters
A. Meredith Walters
~ Synopsis ~
He found me in blood and tears.
I stayed with him through darkness and fire.
We loved each other in the moment between innocence and bitter
truth.
We were the kids easily ignored, who grew into adults we
hardly knew.
We weren’t meant to last forever. And we didn’t.
He ran away.
I tried to move on.
Yet I never stopped thinking about the boy who had fought to
keep me alive in a world that would have swallowed me whole. He was the past
that I buried, but never forgot.
Until the day I found him again, years after believing I had
lost him forever.
And in cold, resentful eyes, I saw the heart of the man who
had been everything when I had nothing at all. So I vowed to hold onto the
second chance that was stolen from the children we had been.
Sometimes fate is ugly. Life can be twisted.
And who we are can be ruined by who we once were.
For two people who had survived so much, we would have to
learn how to hold on before we were forced to let go.
~ Excerpt ~
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“Maybe I should tell you a story. It’s been a long time since
I’ve done that. You always liked when I made up dumb stuff to get you to
smile.” I chuckled. “The more improbable the better, right? So let me think of
something completely unrealistic.”
I sniffled, wiping my wet cheeks. I hadn’t realized I was
crying.
“Once upon a time there was a sad, lonely boy who was actually a
forgotten prince. No one knew that he was rich and powerful and had a family
that was searching for him.” I smiled sadly, wishing, more than anything, that
this particular story had been true.
“One day he met a girl who swore that she would help him get
back home to the castle. They fell in love. The prince wanted her to come back
to the castle with him so they could live there together. They fought dragons
and defeated ogres. They ran from witches and swam through oceans. And finally
they found the castle. The prince’s family welcomed him home and he married his
princess. And they lived happily ever after.”
I rested my forehead on the back of his hand, hating how cold
his skin was. “You always loved your fairytales,” I mused, wishing he had been
able to find his.
The hand in mine stirred and I bolted upright. Yoss’s face was
contorted in pain, his eyes fluttering.
I got to my feet and reached for the call button so I could
alert the nurse that something was wrong.
Then he let out a breath and his eyes opened. They were clouded
and confused as they darted around the room, taking everything in.
I was rooted to the spot, not moving. He frowned and then winced
when he tried to sit up.
“Uh, you shouldn’t do that. Take it easy,” I instructed, my
voice shaking.
Then the wild, green eyes found me. There was no immediate
recognition and I felt the crushing weight of disappointment.
He doesn’t know who I am.
His eyes were cold. So cold. Dead. He groaned as he lifted his
hand to his face, touching the bandaged skin.
“Let me call the nurse. Your doctor will want to see you now
that you’re awake—”
“Where am I?” he asked, his voice rough and hard.
It was a voice I had heard a million times in my dreams.
A voice I never thought I’d hear again. Not in real life.
“You’re at Lupton Memorial Hospital. You were brought in last
night.” I didn’t give him any more details. I wasn’t sure he was ready for all
that. He had just gained consciousness after all.
“The hospital,” he repeated. He struggled to sit up and hissed
in pain at the effort.
“Seriously, you should wait and let me call the nurse—”
His eyes flashed in my direction and the cloud of confusion
lifted as he speared me with a look that I felt in my bones.
Recognition.
His eyes widened and his mouth parted in disbelief.
I wanted to say something—anything—but my tongue felt
frozen behind my teeth.
Yoss shook his head and closed his eyes. He let out a noise that
sounded a lot like a sob and my heart knew the sound of pain when it heard it.
When he opened his eyes again, they were wet. Long, dark lashes
spikey with tears that refused to fall.
A hundred memories arched between us. A thousand words spoken
softly in the dark.
A dozen promises never kept.
His lips curved upwards into the shadow of a smile that I
remembered and loved so much.
“Imi,” he whispered.
I nodded, still otherwise paralyzed.
“Imi,” he said again, a tear traveled the length of his cheek
and dripped off his chin.
“It’s me, Yoss,” I said finally, forcing myself to speak.
Our eyes met. They held.
They clung and they devastated.
Fifteen years had passed but none of that mattered.
In that instant we were kids again. Remembering a time when, to
each other, we were everything.
~ About the Author ~
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
of Contemporary and Paranormal romance including The Find You in the Dark and
Bad Rep series as well as the upcoming stand alone romance, Reclaiming the
Sand, and a dark new adult series for Gallery Books.A. Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.
When not writing (or being tortured with all manner of beauty products at the hand of her very imaginative and extremely girly daughter), she is eating chocolate, watching reality television that could rot your brain and reading a smutty novel or two.
A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.
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