Random (Going the Distance) (29 page)
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Authors: Lark O'Neal
Tags: #finding yourself, #new adult book, #new adult romance, #Barbara Samuel, #star-crossed lovers, #coming of age, #not enough money, #young love, #new adult & college, #waitress, #making your way, #New Zealand, #new adult, #travel, #contemporary romance
He studies my face, tenderly draws a finger along my jaw. “I’m proud of you.”
I half-smile. “Thanks. Try not to find too many models while I’m gone, okay?”
“We’re not making vows of faithfulness, then, huh?”
For a minute I consider it. “No,” I say. “I love you and I hope we work this out, but I don’t want to have some false bond between us. Does that make sense?”
“It does.” He grabs me suddenly and holds me tight. “I love you, Jess. I’m so sorry I fucked everything up.”
I breathe in the smell of his skin, feeling my veneer crack. I hug him back just as fiercely. “I love you, Tyler. More than I’ve ever loved anyone. Try to get yourself together, okay?”
“I promise,” he says fiercely.
Then it’s time to leave. I drive back down through Manitou as the sun breaks in the east, and from this height it’s amazing how much I can see, how much color there is.
My heart rises with it, and I think…
New Zealand!
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Lark O’Neal has waited tables, dispensed drugs to schizophrenics, loaded trucks, answered phones in a call center and tended bar, but the only thing she ever really wanted was to write novels. She has won many awards for her books, and writes full time from Colorado.
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