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Authors: Marshall,Penelope
ADELINE
I was sitting on the beach, the gritty sand in between my toes, with Ezra sitting next to me like usual. I don’t remember the last time I saw him, but I knew this would be the last time. Things with Cole and I had really taken shape, and to be able to fully move forward, I was going to have to leave my past behind, which meant leaving Ezra behind. I was going to ask him something I told him I would never ask…but it was time.
We sat and watched the white and gray waves hit the shore for a while, the breeze whipping between us. I shifted a tendril of hair from my face and turned to him.
My lips separated. “Remember when…”
He interjected.
I know.
“What do you know?”
You’re gonna ask me to leave.
I didn’t reply.
Do you remember what I told you I would do if you asked?
I smiled. “You said you would smile, and grant me my wish.”
He smiled at me and stood up.
Goodbye, my good girl.
He turned and walked toward the water, toward a woman, who only a few moments before wasn’t standing there. Her back was to me as she stood in knee-high water facing the open ocean, her long flowing white dress floated around her, swaying with the waves. Her long, jet black hair blew wildly in the wind.
As Ezra neared the mystery woman, she glanced over her shoulder to greet him, her face visible to me only slightly, and only for a split second.
“Catherine!” I shouted as I shot up from bed, beads of sweat rolling down my face and neck.
Cole pressed his palm to the small of my back. “What’s wrong?” he whispered, still half asleep.
I looked down at him, the weight of the war he had just come home from still present on his face.
Not wanting to add to that weight with the news of Catherine’s death, I lay back down and whispered, “Nothing.”
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Acknowledgements
I’d like to thank everyone who helped make this book possible:
My wonderful friends who are willing to read anything I throw at them, Irma, Josan, Liz, Alma, Avril, Jeanette, and my dad.
About the Author
Penelope Marshall was born in the Philippines, and raised in Southern California.
She picked up writing in early 2016 and instantly fell in love with the craft. Her writing runs the romance gamut from sweet romantic comedies, to tough alpha male military suspense thrillers, with a little young adult, and paranormal thrown into the mix.
A good plot twist is what drives Penelope’s writing, striving for that jaw dropping moment at the end of each book.
