Excerpt Reveal - Eminent Love By Leddy Harper
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About EMINENT LOVE
Life doesn’t always start with once upon a time. Love doesn’t always end with happily ever after. After spending five years with the love of my life, I did nothing to stop her from walking away. She had her reasons to leave. I had my reasons to stay. But a year later, the realization of loss hits me, and I’ll stop at nothing to fix it. I leave everything behind to drive across the country to win her back, and I refuse to accept anything other than fulfilling old promises. But the only certainty in life is: nothing is as expected. The most valuable lessons don’t often revolve around a fairytale ending—frequently, they come from hurt and healing. They come from the kind of personal growth love offers. The mending of your heart, your soul, and your life. And every once in a while, you find the greatest gifts in the packages you never expected to open.
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I’ve done nothing for a year other than think of her and remember how good I’d had it. How healing her love was for me. How I’d never find anything resembling it again. Not like I’d tried, but that didn’t mean anything. Nothing had meaning without her. Nothing.
I inhaled
deeply, my heart hammering away…and I pressed call. My breathing ceased as it
rang. Once. Twice. Three times. And then her voice came through the line. Such
a soft sound, like a melody. Warm and soothing, just like her. The air blew out
harshly past my lips as I readied myself to speak, to recite the words I’d held
onto for a year. Although, before my lungs completely deflated, my breath
caught in my chest, burning me from the inside out.
“Hey,
you’ve reached Layne. Well, not really. You’ve reached my voicemail. I wasn’t
able to get to my phone fast enough, but if you leave a message, I’ll call ya
right back.” With my eyes closed, I could picture her perfectly. Her smile was
evident in her voice, in the way she spoke with a lilt at the end of her words.
Pain.
That’s what
listening to her voice filled me with. Immense torture. I couldn’t even form
enough thought to come up with something to say. When the beep sounded, I didn’t
speak. One second. Two. Three. Four seconds of complete silence dragged out
before I finally ended the call.
“Fucking stupid idiot,” I said
aloud as I slammed the phone down on the table. My face immediately fell into
my hands. Of course she didn’t answer. She had no reason to. She’d said all she
needed to say in the email she’d sent about a month after we’d broken up. An
email I’d disregarded for weeks before finding the patience to open it.
I should’ve
responded then.
I should’ve
done something.
However, I
chose to dismiss her and the entire situation. It had been easier at the time
because I’d allowed the fury inside to burn stronger until any ounce of
compassion regarding her or our life together had been decimated, charred
beyond recognition. Turned into ashes and then carried away by the wind.
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