ATTENTION: YOU MUST READ FRESHMEN YEAR FIRST!
Freshly new nineteen year old, Shai Carter, is back with even more madness. Entering his sophomore year of college, Shai returns with an "I don't care" attitude that surely raises some eyebrows and stirs up unnecessary conflict. Matters become worse when his mother, Allison, tries to find her way back into his life. He didn't know her true intentions for being back or whether she was going to stay around for once. He did know one thing surely, he wasn't going to allow anyone or anything interrupt his ongoing peace of mind. He was staying true to himself, avoiding all drama and bullcrap that people could possibly pull on him. That included the ones he loved. But drama seems to always find him.
She didn't think her second year would be like this but it was something. Eighteen year old, Desdemona Young, came back with a fresh new demeanor and confidence. She was claiming this year as hers with no drama. At least, that's what she thought. With the drastically new unpleasant attitudes and people that's been lingering around, Dess wasn't sure if she could handle relationships, school, and her social life all at once. There was one thing she made sure of, life had its ups and downs, but it's up to the person to continue the fight. Would she be willingly to continue when all things fail?
Model. Wife. Entrepreneur. Allison Carter-Williams had many talents and skills. But, one that she lacked was being a mother. Missing majority of Shai's life placed a barrier between mother and son that was too hard to piece back together. But with free time this new year, she was using it wisely. Somewhat. With the thoughts of wanting to patch things up with her son, Allison is met with multiple never-ending issues and halts in her mission. She just wanted one thing...a relationship with her child, but that seemed too impossible with secrets and lies she's still holding to.
October 18, 2023 - August 22, 2024
He'd gone beyond his player ways for her.
She'd grown beyond her traumatic past for him.
Together, their love was beyond.
Until one fatal accident.
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When she loses the love of her life in a car crash, Althea has nothing left in California. So mourning and broken, she follows Asher's last wish: moving to New York and realizing her dream of becoming a fashion designer.
But what happens when three years later, she comes back home to get closure before getting promoted and married, and she finds her late boyfriend very much alive and paralyzed in a wheelchair?
Asher would have never expected to see Althea again in his lifetime. He's given up on her, with his hope of walking again, long ago.
And yet, here she is, the woman who has always had the power to shake his certainties, standing in front of him and bringing more than his heart out of numbness.
With her, the half-man he's been for the past three years could be whole again and finally touch hope - If his pride doesn't stand in the way.
- If she lets her guard down again because he isn't the only one who has been wounded in this accident, and the ring on her finger isn't the only thing that has changed about the colorful girl he's known.
Can their love go beyond lies, disability, ghosts of the past, new engagements, and all the opposite forces tearing them apart?
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Featured in Wattpad Romance Head Over Heels' reading list in November 2023.