Blurb
There's always the one…
He's one person throughout life you think about every so often,
the one who leaves his unique indelible mark on you, the person with whom you
need closure.
For Margaret Collins that person was Mike Taylor. After he broke
her heart seventeen years ago, she left everything she knew and reinvented
herself. With a new home, a new look and a new name, Riley Williams is now an
up and coming journalist given the assignment to interview a Mike Taylor. She
never suspected he would be her Mike Taylor.
With Mike having no hint of Riley's true identity, she must
decide if she will make him pay for sins he doesn't remember committing, or if
she can wipe away the past and be with the one man who she has always wanted?
Can she finally have closure?
Excerpt
"Are you worried I'm going to get something wrong?" Without
him knowing, they slipped back into their old banter. She reached into her bag,
found a pad and pen and held them up. "Do you feel better now?"
"Yes, different." He pressed his back against the chair.
"A challenge." His smile let the tooth peek out, while seventeen
years caused the little wrinkle at corner of his eye to appear. "You know,
I have some meetings here the rest of this week."
"Should I be writing this down?" She clicked the pen twice,
trying to stop herself from reading more into this.
"Not unless you're writing down your address so I know where to
pick you up for dinner tomorrow night."
Everything stopped. Even if only in her mind, for that second the
world froze. The constant clink of dishes ceased, the bustling wait staff stood
motionless.
Back in the school hallway when he had invited her out, he used a
similar assumptive close. He turned to her and asked what time he should get
her Friday night.
Though the years had diminished the pain, to this day every now and
again, she wondered what would have happened if took her out rather than
succumbing to the pressure of his friends and parents. She'd been nothing but a
project when she wanted to be a girl.
Here together, they repeated history, but not in his eyes. She
couldn't blame him for not knowing her. She'd changed her name, changed her
looks, but never managed to change her heart.
She always wondered.
Maybe she always wished.
Was she handed another chance to get her heart ripped to shreds, or
had she just received the ultimate do-over?
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