Could Have Been Us Novels & Stories

Maybe. Just maybe... Starting over here wouldn't be impossible after all.

I refused the offer. The hands on the steering wheel went stiff. She almost ran through a red light. "What about the beach? Or the restaurant you've always wanted to go to?" She kept bringing up ideas to wind down. I struck down every single one of them. … When we were about to get out of the car, the look of awkwardness and guilt on her face was gone. It was replaced by doubt and displeasure. I saw that look, and I said, "Maybe we should check out our old home."

“Maybe it’s time for us both to stop waiting for men who don’t see us.” Eva chuckled. “Maybe.” And for the first time in a long while, I felt a flicker of something I hadn’t felt in a while. Hope. Hope that I could survive in this world without him.

Atlantic High. A school for dickheads and whores. Only a few of those rich kids didn't have a screw or two loose from their heads. The rest were full of themselves and knowing that I was in a country like Nigeria, where they could even burn off a gay person, I had kept my secret from everyone.

Or at least that's what Roman thinks it is. ‘Michelle You know what you did. Your dues will be paid. I’m here to collect. Yours forever ‘til death,’

All of us. But maybe… just maybe… we’d find a way to put the pieces back together differently.

But maybe it was a start. ---

It was something we could actually build. Together.

I lie there in the dark, my body still humming and my mind reeling. The line we’ve so carefully drawn isn’t just blurred; it’s obliterated. Something irrevocable has happened, and I know, with a terrifying, exhilarating certainty, that we will never be the same again, no matter how much Devon Pretends.

Dave and Lisha stood in the wreckage of their pride. “You hired a hitman,” Dave said. “You hired the SAME hitman for a pregnant woman, you didn’t have to do this love,” Lisha replied. They stared at each other very embarrassed yet displeased that their plan didn’t work. After a moment Dave muttered, “Well… that was embarrassing.”