Ja'Darious James and Tra'Jedy Mason have been best friends since childhood and even though he has a girlfriend, that still doesn't change how they feel for each other. Both coming from broken homes, they gravitated towards each other, promising to protect the other no matter what. But a mother, who doesn't know how to show love, accuses her of a crime and sends her to jail for something she didn't do.
Five years later, she walks out of the jail and right into her best friend's arms, but jealousy soon ensues when his girlfriend continues to blow up his phone.
Realizing that she and her best friend would never be together, she decided that it's best to move on. But something in her just won't allow her and she finds herself deeply in love with him, and knows it's not that easy to get away.
Ja'Darious James aka Glock, has been in love with Tra'Jedy since the first day that they met. Struggling with his feelings for Narshae and Tra'Jedy, has been impossible until Narshae makes the biggest mistake of her life, showing Glock that loyalty just isn't in her cards. After Tra'Jedy is sent to jail and all communication ceases, he focuses on making money.
When they finally stop fighting their feelings for one another, the whole world realizes that it's them against the world, except for Narshae and an old enemy, who has some business to settle with Tra'Jedy.
With the whole world with them, who can be against them? Find out in this unfortunate love tale...
"Do you think we're soul mates?" She asked, lifting her head in order to lock eyes with him.
It took him a moment, mustering up his answer. Thinking about how they were so alike, but so different. How they had been through similar things and had the same outlooks on certain perspectives in life. The connection that they shared.
It was like she was made specifically for him. No one would ever be able to hold a candle to her and the way she made him feel. She was his person, and he was hers.
"To be honest...yeah." He replied, wrapping his arm around her.
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Knucks is a misunderstood teenage girl, deemed as destructive to the society with her reoccurring outbursts and rebellious behavior. Anger fuels her defiant spirit but beneath her exterior, lies a vulnerable girl searching high and low for someone to help her through a time of crisis.
Bones quiet and reserved, has nothing but a hard exterior looking from the outside in, when in reality he is just an innocent boy. He's fighting to keep his head above the water also known as life, that is trying its hardest to submerge and break him down mentally.
When the two teenagers find themselves in an environment far away from home with others just like them, it leaves both of them separately hopeless about the outcomes of their future lives.
One night upon meeting each other, one felt as if they had nothing to live for anymore, while the other felt the same way only holding a different meaning a sense.The night bringing them closer than ever eventually has to come to an end.
It's up to the two of them to carry out the strange but alluring connection made with each other, or leave it in the night they met.
SLOW BURN; 2 books in 1
STARTED; FEB 19th 2024
PUBLISHED; MARCH 3rd 2024
FINISHED; SEPTEMBER 29th, 2024