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Dedication
Heather Moss & My Betas
Thank you for everything you ladies have done!
Yoda I couldn’t have done this without you! I love you!
Betas: Thank you for your feedback and your boo boos I love you, too!
Boss man: Words cannot describe howmy best friend I couldn’t do this without you
Dad: Thank you for always showing me what hard work is and what it can acco I put my mind to
Mo there for me no matter what You are my best friend
Julissa Rios: I love you and I a a pain inmy sister I know you are always there for me when I need you
Ysabelle & Gianna: Love you my babies
Rebecca Marie: THANK YOU for an AMAZING cover I wouldn’t knohat to do without you and your fabulous creativity
Heather Moss: Thank you for everything that you do!! I wouldn’t knohat to do without you! You’re The Best PA Ever!! You’re NEVER leaving me!! XO
Silla Webb: Thank you so ! I love it and you!
Erin Noelle: Thank you for everything you do!
Michelle Tan: Best beta ever! Argie Sokoli: I couldn’t do this without you You’re my chosen person Tammy McGowan: Thank you for all your support, feedback, and boo boo’s you find! I’m happy I made you cry Michele Henderson McMullen: LOVE LOVE LOVE you!! Jen Pon, Louisa Rebeka Christine Perales: You alwaysin lastit done like a boss Mary Jo Toth: Your boo-boos are always great! Thank you for everything you do in VIP! Ella Gra person! Thank you for your kindness Ki to me Tricia Bartley: Your comments and voice always make me s teaestions Jenn Hazen: Thank you for everything! Laura Hansen: I Love You Patti Correa: You’re a! Jennifer Pon: Thank you for all your feedback and suggestions! You’re a! Michelle Kubik Follis: Welcome back! I missed you too! Deborah E Shipuleski: Thank you for all your quick honest feedback! Kaye Blanchard: Thank you for wanting to join tea! KR Nadelson: I love you! Bri Partin: Thank you for everything you do! Mary Grzeszak: Thanks for all the ! Patti McDaniel Adams: Thanks for all the MC infor in late and helping! Mel LuvstooRead: Thank you so ! You helped so much! Lily Garcia: I love you! Allison East: Thank you! Louisa Brandenburger Michelle Chaer, Sheila Marie, Leeann Kidson Van Rensburg: THANK YOU! Eraphics!
ALL MY VIPS!!!
Wander Aguiar: Thank you soWander Book Club
Marshall Perrin: Thank you for the a cover photo! You make the perfect Creed Marshall Perrin
To all my author buddies:
Jettie Woodruff: You complete me
Erin Noelle: I Love You!
To all the bloggers:
A HUGE THANK YOU for all the love and support you have shownfriendships with you that I hold dear to !! I cannot THANK YOU enough!! Special thanks to Like A Boss Book Pro my tours!
Last but not least
YOU
My readers
THANK YOU!!
Without you
I would be nothing
I watched with stone cold eyes as the shiny white casket was lowered into the earth’s soil The heavens eeping right along withinto my black jacket
Burning my core
Little by little
Deeper and deeper
Until darkness surroundedat erness, like a noose aroundfor
Anything
It could have been one minute, two hours, or three days that had passed in front ofI’d been standing there Ifbody were any indications, I would have guessed a few hours Time just seemed to stand still while my whole world shattered all around me
Piece by piece
One by one
Now there would be nothing left of irl everyone remembered The old Mia All they saas a hollow shell of a person they used to know, holding onto the hope that she was still soirl
Who had ceased to exist
Except I tried to pretend I wasn't there I tried to ied in a matter of seconds That my world hadn't been turned upside down in the span of a few hours That everything I wanted to believe in wasn't truly
A lie
Life was about choices
Good ones
Bad ones
It was the butterfly effect Every action had a reaction Once soed, you couldn’t stop the chain of events following One simple decision could be the catalyst of chaos
One minuscule second
One life-altering moment
Set the tracks in motion
It hat limpses of what could have been if you made a different choice There were no do-overs, no matter how much you tried to reach those invisible lines and put the as broken It would tease you, showing you the possibilities of a different outcoh in your face like a cruel entity telling you it would never be
Not now
Not ever
Except this decision wasn’t my own I didn't choose this I didn't want this I never prayed for this My worst nightmare became my reality In the end, it didn’t matter
Because this decision not only changed me, but
my entire future
It also costburied deep into the ground, six feet under, where I would never see theain
Not one smile
Not one I love you
Not one
Not one
Not one
I tightly shutto the rain pelt the concrete and the ratchet noise of the hoist taking everything away from me And then, I suddenly felt him behind me
Everything about him hurt
His scent, his aura, especially his love for me
For us