Novel & Cerita Waiting On The Other Shoe To Drop

While I pray for a miracle that brings summer back, I continue to delay the inevitable while hoping my husband-to-be is unaware that I am already in his city. "Finally!" I bellow as Wade joins me by the entrance leading into the shop. "Took you long enough." "Had to fix the shoes. But really, what the fuck? How do people survive here? It's only August, and they have a motherfucking snowstorm. How does this make any sense?"

Tears streak down my cheek ruining my makeup. I quickly wipe away my tears and threw down my shoes onto the floor, placing my feet inside of them slowly. As I continued to stare at the red shoe dad had given me as a surprise. I suddenly recollected the day I was passing by the shoe store and saw the shoes been displaying through a large clear window. Laying my eyes on them for the first I wanted it, but I had used up all the money dad had given me to treat myself for the day. I could not buy them. I smiled as tears continue to flow from my eyes as I too remembered coming home as fast as I could to ask dad for the money in returning to purchase the shoes right away. Returning to purchase the

The seventh node on the edge of completion. Waiting. Cliffhanger.

The final secret—the one that would truly shatter them—was still waiting. And the rain kept falling. Like it was counting down. Like it knew the end was close. Like it was waiting for the moment one of them would speak the words that would burn the house down.

His presence behind me felt like a second gravity—heavy, familiar, anchoring. “You’re waiting for the other shoe to drop,” he said. “I’m waiting for the world to notice we just tilted it.” He rested his hands on my hips, his thumbs tracing slow circles through my shirt. My breath hitched. He lowered his mouth to my ear. “Let it notice.” “It already is.” I turned slightly. “Leone wasn’t the end.” “No.” His voice deepened. “He was the opening act.” I exhaled shakily. Zach’s hands slid up my sides, palms warm, grounding.

“Let’s go out to this new club, but no promises on getting laid.” “I’ll take what I can get.” She runs her eyes over me one last time before handing me a pair of heels that will probably have me breaking an ankle in no time. She raises an eyebrow at me when I hesitate. “Sometimes you need to kick fate in the ass, Madison, and these are definitely the shoes for the job.”

The thing that never had answers. I had lost my job. I had lost the only place that made me feel competent. I closed my eyes and waited for Shane to come home. The other shoe was about to drop. I just didn’t know how hard.

Waiting for the next take. Forever.

Two weeks after Sanders' arrest, the house feels like home again. No more shadows lurking in corners. No more footsteps that make us freeze mid-sentence. No more looking over our shoulders every time we leave the house. No more waiting for the other shoe to drop. No more waking up in the middle of the night, heart pounding, convinced something terrible is about to happen, convinced it's all going to be taken away in an instant. Convinced we don't deserve happiness. Convinced the other shoe is always coming.