Falling. I'd heard, before you took your last breath you would regret your decision. You would regret taking the jump, you would regret stepping off the edge..but I did not. Taking that step off seemed to be the best decision I had made in a long time.
The air swept through my tangled hair, covering my face as I descended further towards my fate. Death. I felt a loss of breath, but I did not mind, all this would be over in a few seconds. The days that seemed to never end, the ache in my chest, a constant reminder of the ultimate betrayal from the one I loved the most. I embraced this feeling. I looked forward to the black hole that is the end.
Finally it came, the darkness. I smiled at the darkness.
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After a life of disasters and heart break, Lucy decided she no longer wanted to live. She made the decision to end it all, take the ultimate sacrifice, suicide.
Call it luck, call it fate, perhaps Lucy had nine lives but taking the decision to jump that day ultimately led to her jumping into the back of a truck of another lost soul.
This book is not your ordinary love story. There is love, but this story tells the struggles of being able to love again after your heart has been broken, and that is not an easy path to walk.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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