The first SIX chapters of Can I Lean On You is up for your enjoyment. Really wanted to spoil you. And as a teaser, here's one of my favorite excerpts from Chapter 1.
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"I'm going to be living with them. I'll have plenty of time with them. I haven't talked to you in three whole days. And I gotta leave for work in fifteen minutes."
I hang my head. "That's not nearly long enough."
"It's never long enough."
The tension seeps from my shoulders. It's moments like this that I worry less about how it's going to be when Finley's here. The bittersweet look in his eye. The soft, sad words. The quiet staring even though he just said we only have fifteen more minutes to talk today.