A Cowboy's Love (Ford Brothers Book #3)

Prologue: Amelia

  My life has not been all rainbows and sunshine. In fact it has been far from it. I have had so many ups and downs in my life. So many mountains standing in between me and my dreams. Always making the wrong decisions since I was eighteen. I walked away from my one true love. A man who really loved and cared for me and I walked away like it was nothing. It was a big deal and it still haunts me to this day. My parents did not approve of him and said that he was not good enough for me. He was perfect for me and I still think he is. My heart has never raced for another man, it has been him. My dad gave me a choice of going to school or ruining my life. I choose to go to school instead of following the the one who still holds my heart. I will always regret the choice that I made. I should have taken the risk and ran with him. That was mistake number one.

Mistake number two was marrying another man that I thought I could love and trust. I knew him all my life and ran in the same circle. We were in the same classes since preschool. We were friends or so I thought we were. I believed that he was my savior, but I was wrong. I should have walked away from him. After Gabriella was born is when he changed and not for the good. He went from a kind and loving man to a monster that I never saw coming. That's when I opened my eyes to see the real man I was married to. He manipulated me and then the abuse started. At first it was just words and then he escalated to using his fists. He trapped me when I had no place to go. He took advantage of a naive, broken teenager who's world was falling apart around her.

My parents did not approve of him either. When they found out I was pregnant they disowned me. Throwing me out like I was a piece of trash. I have not seen them since the day they kicked me to the curb. They cut all ties with me. They stopped helping me pay for college and refused to have anything to do with their granddaughters. I ended up dropping out of school, I did not have enough to pay for schooling, the bills, and everything kids need. I was drowning and I still am. I was left brokenhearted, disowned, and living with a monster. It has been a rough road that I am traveling down. Will the twist and turns ever stop? When I think everything is going good I find another pothole in the asphalt. I know that am not okay, but I am holding on enough for my girls. The water keeps flooding in, soon it will be over my head, and I have no one to save me. I am on my own and I will always be.