Title: Only You (A Second Chance Novel)
Author: Stephanie Rose
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Synopsis
Only You is a STANDALONE novel in the Second Chances Series.
I spent my life searching for love, but Evan was right there all along. As gorgeous on the inside as he was on the outside, I never had to wonder if he loved me. He showed me with every glance, every sweet touch, every scorching kiss. I wanted nothing more than to give him my forever—until I found out I may not have one.
Paige was the girl of my dreams. So beautiful in every way; no one would ever compare. I feared she would never be mine, and then she became my everything. I wanted to be with her for the rest of my life.
I wanted her to be my forever. But love may not be enough.
Why do I have to say good-bye to the love of my life? How can I let you go—when it’s always been only you?
PLEASE NOTE: Only You is a Contemporary Romance with intense language and sexual situations meant for readers 18 and up.
Prologue
Paige
My
eyelids were weak and heavy. All I did now was sleep, but I was still
too tired to wake up. I didn’t even remember how I got here.
It
took a pathetic amount of strength to lift my head and glance over
the tray of food. I wasn’t sure what time it was, but pretty sure
it was late. Why they thought I wanted crackers now was beyond me.
They
can’t really expect me to eat, can they?
Swallowing anything was torturous thanks to the deep open sores that
trailed down my throat. Water burned, so the thought of eating
anything was as appealing as chowing down on sandpaper—and would
probably feel the same going down.
I
curled into the fetal position as I shivered and rubbed at my skin to
get warm and felt the pointy bone through the flesh of my arms. I
reached for the covers and winced at the pain fingers as I gathered
up the scratchy fabric and pulled it over my aching shoulders.
It
hurt to move. It hurt to breathe. Most of all, it hurt to think.
The
life I wanted, with the man I wanted, haunted my dreams.
You
own me. Can’t you see that?
You’re
mine. You’re everything.
I…can’t
see my future with anyone else but you.
I
finally found what I’d been looking for my entire life, but I
couldn’t keep it.
The
sound of voices yelling outside my hospital room snatched me out of
my thoughts. I pushed myself up, panting at the exertion it took to
sit upright. I leaned back on my elbows and my weak heart leaped in
my chest when I recognized the voice causing all the commotion
outside—the voice I’d know anywhere.
“I
need to see her, please.”
Evan?
No,
no, no.
I didn’t want him to see me like this. How did he find out I was
here?
“I’m
sorry, sir. Immediate family only. This is the ICU.”
“I’m
not leaving. Paige? Daisy, it’s me!” My heavy head dropped to my
hands. The sobs that ran through me made it difficult to breathe
thanks to the oxygen tubes filtering through my nose. Pushing him
away was the hardest thing I ever had to do, but I did it for him.
I
didn’t want to let him go. I wanted him to hold me, tell me he
loved me and know he would never leave me. I wanted that so fucking
much it ached.
“Sir,
please. She’s a very sick girl.”
In
time, he’d see. He deserved someone who could give him a life,
children, and a future. All things I can’t offer him, no matter how
much I wished things were different. He deserved better than this,
better than me.
The
door was half closed but opened with such force that it banged into
the wall and made me jump. Evan marched up to my bed and took my face
in his hands. His hay colored eyes filled with tears as his hands
shook.
“I
love you, and I’m not going anywhere.” His voice quivered with
emotion, but I wasn’t sure if it was sadness, rage, or a
combination of the two.
“Now,
you’re going to tell me exactly what’s going on. And why you lied
to me—”
Stephanie lives in the Bronx, New York with her superhero-obsessed husband and son. Her day job is marketing, but she always has a story in her head.
This lifelong New Yorker lives for Starbucks, book boyfriends, and 80s rock After spending most of her youth watching soaps, Stephanie has an obsession with angsty drama and hot romance.
She's excited to finally bring the characters she's been dreaming about to life!
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