Broken Promises
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Last published Wed, Dec 20, 2017
"I'm sorry. I still wish that I contacted you sooner, but I've been very busy.
Sincerely
Your father, Jonathan Lowe. "
My cheeks flushed red in anger. My tear stained eyes were stinging from trying to claw their way out. I felt hurt. I felt betrayed. I felt used. My own father left my mother and I to fend for ourselves.
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"Um. Yes, Hi, is this that guy from the coffee shop?" I said awkwardly.
"Yes, uh, why do you ask?"
"Actually, you wrote me a message? Told me you wanted to get to know me?" I said kind of shaky, man I was so nervous.
"Oh, you're the sweet girl that comes in for a few minutes and then takes off, so I barely get a chance to say more to you." He says, as if he was bummed about me not staying for long.
"I am, I guess, always gotta run. Tight schedule. My assignment's due tomorrow morning."
While Kate struggles with her strained relationship of her father, she meets Tom along the way, and starts to fall for him, but is it too dangerous letting a stranger get too close to her with her troubled past?? That's something Kate is bound to find out eventually. Will it all come crashing down? Or will she receive that happy ending she had always wanted?
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