Category: Relationships Publisher: Create Space
ISBN-10: 1434835715
Type: Fiction
Pages: 324
Copyright: April 11, 2008
ISBN-13: 9781434835710
"Love Won't Let Me Wait" featires five stories and novellas, tales of the love, passion and pain of relationships, as described below.
One on One:
They say you can’t go home again, and Marcus Brooks didn’t want to. But when he goes back to close the door on his past and to escape the pain of betrayal by the woman he loved, Marcus learns that for every door in life that closes, a new one opens. And for every love lost, the potential for new love is found.
The Cousin:
Devon Graham misses his wife Sheila. He misses her kiss. He misses her touch. He misses the love they used to share. And when Sheila’s beautiful cousin Ellie arrives to live with them, Devon’s frustration and desire are pushed to the limit. Now he has to learn the reasons for the coldness in his marriage before he gives in to the heat of a new temptation.
The Plan:
Aaron plans out everything in his life, from owning his own store before he turned thirty to hiring Jeanette, his beautiful new secretary. Jeanette is the object of every man’s desire, but Aaron has no intention of being unfaithful to his wife. But that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have a plan.
Breaking Point:
Everyone has a breaking point. For Bryan, it began with the failure of his marriage. But that heartbreaking loss was only the beginning of his troubles. Now someone wants Bryan dead. Now he must learn if the threat to his life is related to his new love, or to something darkness yet to be discovered – a darkness that will push him to the brink of his breaking point.
The Group:
It began as a beautiful Saturday morning for five lifelong girlfriends. But a treacherous betrayal by one of them opens the door to secrets long hidden – secrets that not only might ruin the friendship of the group – it might destroy their lives.
Excerpt
Excerpt from "Breaking Point," featured in "Love Won't Let Me Wait."
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I was awake for a while after Lizette left, sitting up in bed and enjoying my new plasma television. I didn’t get tired again until after midnight. I turned the TV off and was reaching for the nightstand lamp when I heard glass breaking downstairs.
It sounded like it came from the rear of the house. I thought about the sunroom, and all that glass.
I was out of bed and on my feet in an instant. I didn’t own a gun. I didn’t have any kind of weapon, not even a baseball bat.
Fuck.
I grabbed the phone and punched 9-1-1.
Before the emergency operator answered I heard heavy footsteps thundering up the stairs.
Chapter 14
I sat on my living room sofa in my sweatpants, watching as they carried the body bag down my stairs on a stretcher.
The police detective sat in the easy chair on which just a few hours ago beautiful Lizette had tossed her clothes.
“Mr. Simmons, you’re absolutely certain that you didn’t know this man?” the detective asked. He was a heavyset brother who wheezed when he talked.
“I’m positive,” I said for the third time.
“And there’s no one you know of who would want to cause you any harm?”
I hadn’t decided yet to tell them about Lizette’s ex-boyfriend. I didn’t want to drag her into this if I could help it. But he was the only one I could think of who might do something like this.
“I just moved here from Maryland a few months ago,” I said. “And I just moved into this house last Friday. I don’t know anyone in this neighborhood.”
“How about from Maryland?” he asked.
“No, not there either.”
“Okay, Mr. Simmons. Go over for me one more time what happened.”
I let out a sigh and started again…
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