Like He Never Left
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  • Reads 20,534
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  • Parts 42
  • Time 8h 58m
Complete, First published Jul 14, 2019
"Listen, son. You've got a great girl waiting for you. Do her a favor and don't mess it up this time." I start to nod, but realize that didn't make sense. Who is he talking about? Josie M-Josie, or Brooke?

"Care to elaborate a bit more? Who do you mean?"

"I don't know. Who do I mean? You're the hotshit lawyer. Figure it out."

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All Josie wanted was to live out her dreams with her childhood sweetheart Colt, a force of arrogance, hot-headedness, and southern charm. They had been through everything life had to offer together, so what was one more tragedy?

Apparently to Colt, everything. 

Seven years later in Boston, he is the epitome of smooth and steady with a new girl on his arm that he fixes to marry. The only problem is that he already is.

Join Colt on a trip down memory lane in Georgia as he struggles to figure out which part of himself holds fast. The fearless small-town boy with the hot head and quick mouth, or the man who has made something of himself in a big city.

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Hate; feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone or something) Carter Shay is a seventeen year old girl who's grown up with everything handed to her in life, her family has money, she has a nice car. She has designer clothes. Great parents, goes to a great school. Great friends, popularity. But she has a secret as to why she gets everything she wants. Yet she doesn't let that stop her from acting like a teenager, from mood swings, to making enemies. Especially enemies, specifically Noah Miller. Noah Miller is a teenage boy who's worked for everything he has, yeah his family has money, they appear as a perfect family to the public eye. But what happens behind closed doors stays behind those doors. As one of the most popular guys in school, guys worship him, girls drool over him, and he lets it happen. Except her, he hates her. Whether it's the feud their families have, or just that fact that Carter Shay is everything that he hate's. They compete when it comes to anything, assignments, sports, pranks. It's not the 'I'm messing with you because I'm actually in love with you' It's the 'I absolutely despise you'. When they're forced to work on an assignment together instead of competing with each other, secrets come out, relationships start forming, and heart's get broken. πš‚πšπšŠπš›πšπšŽπš || π™Ήπšžπš•πš’ 𝟷𝟢th 𝟸𝟢𝟸𝟷. π™΅πš’πš—πš’πšœπš‘πšŽπš || π™΅πšŽπš‹πšžπšŠπš›πš’ πŸΈπŸΎπšπš‘ 𝟸𝟢𝟸𝟸.
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Hate; feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone or something) Carter Shay is a seventeen year old girl who's grown up with everything handed to her in life, her family has money, she has a nice car. She has designer clothes. Great parents, goes to a great school. Great friends, popularity. But she has a secret as to why she gets everything she wants. Yet she doesn't let that stop her from acting like a teenager, from mood swings, to making enemies. Especially enemies, specifically Noah Miller. Noah Miller is a teenage boy who's worked for everything he has, yeah his family has money, they appear as a perfect family to the public eye. But what happens behind closed doors stays behind those doors. As one of the most popular guys in school, guys worship him, girls drool over him, and he lets it happen. Except her, he hates her. Whether it's the feud their families have, or just that fact that Carter Shay is everything that he hate's. They compete when it comes to anything, assignments, sports, pranks. It's not the 'I'm messing with you because I'm actually in love with you' It's the 'I absolutely despise you'. When they're forced to work on an assignment together instead of competing with each other, secrets come out, relationships start forming, and heart's get broken. πš‚πšπšŠπš›πšπšŽπš || π™Ήπšžπš•πš’ 𝟷𝟢th 𝟸𝟢𝟸𝟷. π™΅πš’πš—πš’πšœπš‘πšŽπš || π™΅πšŽπš‹πšžπšŠπš›πš’ πŸΈπŸΎπšπš‘ 𝟸𝟢𝟸𝟸.