Love And What It's Worth

"If I would have known I would never have let him do it. You've got to know that Case." His eyes plead with mine to see how raw and honest he was.
He was right, again. And now I am at war with still wanting to be with him and smacking him across the face. But it didn't matter. My mother was gone because of him, and I'm not going to just drop the fact his father was still the cause of it.
"What I do know, is you knew my name. You knew there was people in the world with small businesses that is the only thing keeping them going. And you didn't fight. " And then came the tears. "You might not have been the one to do it, but that doesn't justify you not fighting. You need to leave. And don't even think ab-"
He grabs my face and kisses me, gentle, but with so much passion I almost melted in his fingers. Almost.

Jay Springs is 19 and fresh out of highschool. His mother Hellen, 7 year old sister Danica, and himself have all been affected by their fathers drunken abuse. Gabriel Springs is the Financial advisor for many big businesses and leaders of smaller ones, that are disappearing all over the states. Casey Linn lived in the small town of Loudenville, OH all her life. She lost her last grandmother a year ago, and being that both of her parents were 'only children', the only other family she has is her father, who just lost his job. Her mother died weeks later of Chondrosarcoma (bone cancer). Shattered and heart broken Casey trys to make the only family she has left work, and letting in a stranger, who might just be the cause of her undoing. Will love truely arise from the ashes of their terrible pasts? Or will they're emotins clash and cause them to lose a love they might never feel again?
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