Release Day: June 16th, 2015
Arianna Dubray is nothing like the girl she left in Baltimore. Once a Prada shoe wearing, Michael Kors bag carrying, on top of the world seventeen-year-old girl, Arianna knew that her life would never be the same when she got out of the car in middle-of-nowhere Montana.
Canyon Michaels is the keeper of his own dark secrets. Plagued by his family name, he's forced to prove the town wrong and make it on his own.
The last thing Arianna needs is a reason to stay, but with every passing day the decision to leave becomes harder. Once their paths cross nothing can tear them apart, other than the secrets that start to surface and the nightmares that soon become their reality.
Canyon Michaels is the keeper of his own dark secrets. Plagued by his family name, he's forced to prove the town wrong and make it on his own.
The last thing Arianna needs is a reason to stay, but with every passing day the decision to leave becomes harder. Once their paths cross nothing can tear them apart, other than the secrets that start to surface and the nightmares that soon become their reality.
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The truck was just as ugly the second time I had seen
it as it was the first. Nothing was endearing or cute about it. He must have
bought it off an elderly farmer who couldn't drive anymore because no one would
be selling this beast in a car lot that's for sure. Opening the door, the same
wave of stale cigarette smoke hit me. This time I slid myself over to the
passenger side and rolled down the window doing the same on my side after I was
done. The cracking noise could still be heard when I pulled the door closed
too.
"I can't say
I expected you to change while I was in class but it sure would have been
nice."
I put the key in
the ignition and turned it over only to hear a click and then nothing.
"NO, NO, NO!
Please don't do this to me!"
Four more attempts
with the same result. Nothing.
"SHIT!"
I pulled out my
phone to call for someone to get me but that someone didn't exist. He would
rather me never come back. My mother wouldn't dare go against his wishes and
Shelby obviously can't drive.
Grabbing my purse and
backpack I started doing the only thing I could, I walked. I tried to find
positive in a negative situation but there really wasn't one. My feet hurt, I
was thirsty and if one more person drove by staring at me without even offering
me a ride I was going to flip out. I thought country people were supposed to be
nice. Isn't that what everyone says? Well, they're wrong or there aren't any in
Highgrove, Montana.
My cell phone died
sometime around four-thirty. Well, that was the last time I checked it and
around ten minutes later it was dead. I had been walking for over an hour and a
half and saw a total of two cars.
"WHAT THE
HELL HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?" I screamed it at the top of my lungs
hoping God would just finish the job and take me out of my misery.
All of a sudden, I
heard the engine of a car coming from behind me. This was it. My final hope for
humanity to restore itself. It got closer. I could feel the wind change and the
vibration within it.
"Please,
please be someone nice enough to give me a ride or someone crazy enough to off
me ‘cause I can't take this anymore."
I turned around
just as the truck approached me praying for a miracle but sure enough the prick
kept his foot on the pedal.
"That's
fucking it!"
I grabbed a
handful of rocks from the side of the road and threw them right at that pretty
truck he was driving.
"Have that,
asshole!"
The brake lights
came on just as the clang from the rocks started hitting the tailgate. The
tires screamed against the blacktop while the back end kicked to the side from
stopping so fast. My eyes practically bulged out of my head when the driver
side door flew open.
"OH,
SHIT."
And oh shit was
mild compared to what I would have said if I had known who the fury coming at
me was before I decided to throw rocks at his truck. How could I not have
thought it was him? I had seen that truck before.
"WHAT THE
HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"
"ME? YOU’RE
THE ASSHOLE THAT WOULDN'T EVEN STOP FOR A POOR GIRL WALKING DOWN A FREAKING
ENDLESS ROAD!"
"WHY WOULD
I?"
"UGH!"
I can't believe I
did it. Never in a million years would I have ever even thought to do something
like this but I reached down in my rage, grabbed a handful of rocks again and
threw them right at his chest. Wall of muscle or not he could take that and
suck on it.
Barbara Speak loves nothing more than being allowed to share her ideas and thoughts through books that so many enjoy. When she's not writing she's caring for her son and daughter along side her amazing husband in rural Missouri. She has 5 more babies but these are covered in fur. Bode the boxer, Tucker the beagle and Lily, Callie and Connor her kitties.
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