Finding Love In A Bookstore {Slow Updates}
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Last published Fri, Jan 29, 2016
As I walked through the door, I could not see. I could not think. I was numb. My world was slowly collapsing. He was my world. He was slowly collapsing, and it was all my fault.
All I could think of those past few days were how I was broken. But something even worse, was that I broke him. I did what I thought was the best thing. I hurt him before he could hurt me.
Reyna Lambert was your average, everyday awkward girl. She had always dreamed of going to NYU to pursue her dream in writing. Now, she finally could. What people didn’t know, was that she had a past. A past she never spoke of. Ever. She knew that it would always be there in her mind to haunt her.
Ashton Donovan was your average college student with a job at his family’s bookstore. He’s always dreamed of finding that perfect girl in there.
Can Ashton help Reyna get over her past and pursue her dream? Can Reyna help Ashton find that perfect girl?
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