Save Me (Best of Me Book 2)

Prologue

Hello hello! So, while I had soooo many goddamn ideas to write for other sequels, new ideas, or expand on short stories. I ended up here with a sequel to Best of Me.

BOM was probably hands down my favorite story to write. Bringing to life my favorite trope with my own characters was too much fun. But I think there's more to their story that I want to explore, at least with this book.
Potentially with another.

Fair warning, this will be FAR more angsty than the first book. If you've read Landslide, that's the level of angst—if not more—that this book will reach.

Here's a sneak peak/prologue of this story, titled, SAVE ME

As always, enjoy.

Prologue

It was a stupid argument. One I knew I never should have started. But it was too late for that. It was too late the moment I stepped into the rain slick street outside the cake shop. My foot touched the pavement sending an angry splash of water around my pant legs. I hadn't cared at the time, too busy trying to get away from Quinn; from the ache that radiated through my ribcage at her lack of caring for our wedding. At the time, it was a knife to the chest. The first person I fell for after losing my late-fiancée, Mae, had blatantly not given a fuck about what our wedding? Yeah, it hurt.

I just wanted a moment alone to clear my head. But instead, I stepped out into the road to cross the street to the old gazebo in town square, only to hear the screeching of tires racing toward me.
The weather was shit. It was raining, the ground was covered in puddles, and it certainly didn't help that where I stood was at the bottom of a hill. Most locals know not to go near that hill in this weather; it's basically suicide—or manslaughter depending on the outcome. But this was a truck, one that probably rarely came to the area. The truck driver didn't know. He didn't know there would be a newly engaged couple arguing by the road. He didn't know one of the women—me—would be crossing the street. He definitely didn't know he would skid out of control the moment he tried to hit the break.

I thought, this is it, this is where I die. How could the thought not cross my mind? A truck careening toward me, desperately trying to slow down. He was honking, waving his hand dramatically gesturing for me to get out of the way.

My feet are frozen in place. As if I have been waiting for this moment. Or maybe I was just too petrified to register that I could die.

"Theo!" Quinn's voice broke through the sound around me. and then...he body connected with mine. My body fell harshly to the ground and I watched in abject horror as the truck turns and clipped Quinn in the side.

Everything was in slow motion, like the forces that be were taunting me. Showing me a frame by frame of the accident. Quinn's body crumpled in the street, water and blood mix on the ground. People are screaming—or maybe it's me. I could hear sirens in the distance. Someone appeared next to me, their voices distant; drowned out by the sound of my blood rushing, my heart breaking, and my mind screaming.

"I can't find a pulse!" A bystander yells, looking around helplessly. My mind flashes back to Mae's lifeless body in the bathtub, blood everywhere, a shiny new engagement ring in my pocket. I was too late then; too late to save her, too late to spend my life with her.

And here I am again, blood spilled, a lifeless body, and I'm at the center of the chaos.

"Miss, miss?" the person beside me yelled. I lifted my head, turning to look at them. The look in their eye registered my face, "Theodora, are you okay?"

I shook my head, eyes drifting back to Quinn's body as the ambulance finally arrives.

"It's all my fault."

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Like I said. Angst.

This story aims to follow Quinn and Theo, post engagement, as they navigate the intricacies of planning a wedding and learning how to both compromise and communicate their wants and needs.

As you can see above, it clearly didn't go well.

There's an accident, and Quinn is in a coma for months. Which leaves Theo to all kinds of self destructive old habits.

Join us on this whirlwind of emotions as Theo fights old demons, Quinn's sunny disposition is tested, and the eccentric Manos family tries to hold the two girls together.

Let me know what you think!!!