Total pages in book: 157
Estimated words: 150968 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 755(@200wpm)___ 604(@250wpm)___ 503(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 150968 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 755(@200wpm)___ 604(@250wpm)___ 503(@300wpm)
What if his truth starts making sense to me?
I’m scared…
Because I know how weak my heart is for him.
I know I will forgive him.
But what happens then? What happens after I forgive him?
What happens to Colton… and me?
God, I am so confused.
My head hurts with a dull pain.
My heart aches terribly.
There’s something special about first love. It feels right; it looks right. It’s perfect in every way, until it isn’t. Grayson Hale is my first love.
Colton sauntered in my life, with great arrogance. He is a perfect facade. Rich, devastatingly beautiful…and everything that I should have stayed away from. But his obsession led to my carefully laid plans crumbling at my feet. He’s changed from his arrogant, selfish and asshole ways. He’s more… gentle now. Colton Bennett is my second chance at love.
I had given up on finding my soulmate a long time ago, but now I have two men in my life and they are both important to me. I’m torn between Colton and Grayson.
The angry horn of a car snaps me out of my thoughts. I guess this is why Lila told me to come here. She said maybe Caroline will be able to help me find the answers I’m looking for.
I scratch my neck, debating if I should enter the shop or not. I’m still thinking when the door opens, and the chimes jingle.
An older woman, maybe in her early fifties stands at the entrance. She’s almost as short as Lila. Her flame hair is piled up in a messy bun and she’s wearing dark jeans and a green sweater. Her pale skin is covered in freckles.
“Would you like to come in?” she asks, raising an eyebrow.
Oh, shit. “Are you Coraline?”
She pops her gum, smiling. “I sure am, Sugar.”
“Uhm, my friend has a coupon,” I tell her cautiously, still hesitant about all of this. “She visits you every year but she can’t come today. She told me I can use her coupon instead.”
I grimace when I realize I haven’t told her who my friend is yet. “Her name is Lila, I don’t know if you remember her.”
Coraline tugs on her hoops earring. “Of course I know who Lila is.”
Oh, good.
She shifts away from the door, motioning for me to come inside. I take a tentative step forward and she closes the door behind her. “Don’t be afraid, Sugar. I don’t bite.”
I’m not scared…
But I don’t really like meeting new people.
Especially fortune tellers. They can see too much.
I wring my hands, glancing around the small antique store. The air feels slightly stuffy. I start to sweat under my arms. Swallowing, I follow Coraline to the back of her shop. We walk through a beaded curtain and there’s a wooden table pushed up against the wall. And two chairs. I notice the stack of tarot cards on the table. “My name is—”
“Riley, I know.” Caroline smiles. She takes a seat on one of the chairs.
Baffled, I can only blink at her. “How do you know?” This is so creepy.
“I had a dream last night. I knew you were coming.” She points toward the opposite chair. “Come here, take a seat.”
Still reeling from the shock that her words have brought me, I quietly take a seat. “Don’t you want to know why I’m here?” I scowl when she starts sifting through her tarot cards. “Won’t you ask?”
“No, I already know why you’re here.” She stretches her arm toward me. “Can I have your right hand, please?”
I give her my hand and she grasps it. Caroline quietly reads the lines of my palm. Her brows are pulled together, almost thoughtfully. She releases my hand, nods to herself and then goes back to her tarot cards.
I don’t understand anything about fortune telling or tarot cards reading, so I watch her quietly. She pulls out three cards, spreading them over the table.
Exactly thirty seconds later, Caroline looks up with a grim expression. “You’re in a state of confusion,” she remarks softly before she slowly tilts her head to the side, watching me closely. “And you’re undergoing a love trial.”
“A love trial?” I squeak. What is that supposed to mean?
She nods. “There’s a lot of fear in your heart that muddles what you truly desire. You can’t see past that fear and that’s the cause of your confusion.”
My heart stammers. “I don’t understand.”
“I see two men in your life. One is your tragedy and the other is your heartbreak.”
I suck in a harsh breath at her words. “Which one is who?”
Coraline shakes her head, smiling tightly. “I can’t tell you that.”
“Can you really see my future?” I croak through the heavy lump in my throat.
“No, I can’t.” She frowns. “I only get glimpses of the future through my dreams. They are called visions. I don’t see the future, though sometimes, I can predict them. But I can’t predict yours because your fear has created a blockage. A wall between your past and your present. If your present is uncertain, it can cause an unsettling future.”