Piece by Piece

*Please beware, this book may have triggering content!*

I felt like my entire existence was swirling down the drain, and I was going down with it. Struggling to fight the current of the water being sucked down in large, thirsty gulps. I felt like my head was bobbing in and out of the water, I was doing to drown with the current pulling me under. It was so strong, I couldn't fight it at all. It was like a giant creature was beneath the drain and it had to suck me down with the water if it wanted me. And it wanted me. It wanted me so greedily, it was willing to choke on all the water it was inhaling trying to get me. I got closer and closer to the drain, no matter how hard I fought, I never got away from the damn drain. It kept pulling and pulling, hungrily inhaling water as if it was starved from water. In that moment, I lost my fight, my willpower, my exuberance. I stopped fighting and let the monster pull my down the drain and into its cavernous maw.

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After a failed suicide attempt, Paisley was sent to rehabilitation center. Her days there are numbered and she knows it, but she doesn't want to go back. She wants to stay at the center where she knows she safe. Safe from her abusive, drunk of a father.

Once Paisley is released, she knows she has to play it safe, one more "accident" like the last and they'll lock her in a padded room at the asylum. Paisley won't go to the asylum, she's heard stories about the asylums.

On the mend, she gets a job at small coffee shop. Then she meets Ryker Easton. A fellow coffee shop worker, who tends to find more comfort in Paisley's presence rather than the pretty, persistent barista Marissa.

Ryker is also persistent on learning more about Paisley than she likes. What is he finds out about the rehab center? About her father? About her scars? He would run for the hills for sure. But the more she learns about him, the more she begins to realize, she might actually have a friend she can trust.