We’re celebrating the release of Living With Regret by Lisa De Jong! Check out the excerpt below!
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I had my whole life mapped out. Perfect guy. Perfect friends. Everything was exactly the way I wanted it.
That was until that night–the one I can’t remember. It’s all my fault, and now the memories are all I have left of him. Of us.
My guilt drowns me until Sam Shea steps back into my life and helps me to the surface. He slowly opens my heart and crawls deep inside before I even realize what’s happening. I know I don’t deserve him.
While I’m trying to get used to my new life, pieces of that night slowly start to come back to me. Lies and secrets shatter everything I thought I knew.
Maybe I’m not the only one living with regret.
know he’s here.
I listen for his footsteps in the grass. Soon they come, each a little louder
than the one before. My heart rate increases just thinking about him being
near. I know what he means to me, but I’m trying to forget. Someone should have
warned me that it’s impossible to forget Sam Shea.
above me, and I feel him lowering himself to the blanket. He never asks for
permission.
warmth of his body next to mine, my eyes stay closed. When his fingers wrap
around mine, I take a deep breath through my nose but don’t give anything away.
His bare arm brushes against mine, and I feel him looking at me. His eyes set fire
to my cheek.
every night since that day in the shop,” he says so low it takes all the
concentration I have in the stillness of the night air to hear him. “I knew
when you finally ventured back out here, you’d be ready to talk.”
things into perspective.”
perspective show you?”
toward him. It’s hard to make out the expression on his face, but I’ve known
him long enough that my imagination is just as good. “That I have two choices.”
me to go on. “I can either swim in this pool of regret for the rest of my life,
or I can take the steps necessary to move forward.”
he asks. Sam Shea, one of the surest people I’ve ever met, sounds so unsure.
we all deserve a second chance.”
forward?”
for hours over the last week, and if the tables were turned and Cory was still
here, I’d want him to be happy. I wouldn’t want him to walk around with guilt
on his shoulders.
happen overnight, but eventually I’ll find a way to live normally again. I like
you, Sam, but I don’t know what that means for us. I mean, it feels wrong to
act on it right now.”
quiet, only the sound of the crickets filling the air. “So you’re not saying
no?”
now. I need some more time to think about what I want. Where it’s going to
bring me. Until just a few months ago, I thought I had it all figured out.
Starting all over isn’t that easy.”
together, I don’t want to lose what we have. The last few weeks have felt so
good … I didn’t think I’d ever have you back in my life again.”
in the sky, trying to find the words that will show Sam that he means more.
“I’m here. I just haven’t decided what version you get.”
version I can get.” His warm hand covers mine, his thumb brushing over the top
of my hand.
That’s what I want my life to go back to.
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Lisa De Jong is a wife, mother and full-time number cruncher who lives in the Midwest. Her writing journey involved insane amounts of coffee and many nights of very little sleep but she wouldn’t change a thing. She also enjoys reading, football and music. She is the author of When It Rains, After the Rain, Plastic Hearts and Glass Hearts.
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