3/8: Bad Boy Romance and Free Reads! šš
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Romance Reader,
Spring is starting to come to Northern Virginia, and the Cherry Blossoms are slowly working their way to peek bloom! I discovered yesterday there are six stages to Cherry Blossoms blooming, we are at the first stage now with the green buds forming on the trees. The National Park Service has all kinds of information if you want to go down the rabbit hole!
Have you met Aaron yet? The sweet bad boy who Nina canāt help but fall crazy in love with? I have an excerpt below for you to enjoy!
Happy Reading,
~ Rene
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Aaron
āThank you for proving that there are still some nice people in the world. As my Mom always says, āKind people are the best kind of people.āā Without giving me a chance to reply, she turns and quickly walks towards the exit, back out into the blowing cold and snow.
Iām suddenly warm all over.
It's time I start living again. I may never deserve sunshine the likes of Nina, but I donāt need to keep punishing myself, either. I need to follow through with my New Yearās resolution of āgetting my head out of my ass.ā
Iāve punished myself long enough.
I need to make some serious fucking changes in my life. Iām done putting my life on hold and living in limbo. If I'm being honest, for whatever reason, I haven't been motivated enough to make a change. That changed this morning. Sunshine came back in my life, if only for a moment, and I saw things clearly for the first time in months.
My parents, God rest them, are probably rolling over in their graves. I have a degree Iām not using, and a life Iām not living. Iām stuck in a rut that I need to crawl my way out of. I donāt want to be working for and cleaning up shit for people I donāt like or respect. What Iām lacking is a sense of direction, purpose.
God, whatās happened to me? Iām standing in the middle of a Starbucks having a mid-life crisis. Maybe not a crisis exactly, but a fucking epiphany.
Grabbing my surprisingly delicious coffee, I reach into my pocket again and dig out my phone. I suddenly know what I have to do.
I need to formulate a plan, but first I need to seek advice from the one person Iāve always been able to count on. Even if itās something I donāt want to hear. With his texts this morning, I know Richard isnāt holding my radio silence against me. I havenāt pushed him away, like I know Iāve done with people in the past. With a few taps on the screen, the phone is ringing in my ear.
āHey. No need to call my sister, Iām alive. Call me,ā I say, leaving a message.
I walk out into the cold feeling more alive, and warmer than I had earlier.
Copyright 2015, Rene Webb
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