We Were The Lucky Ones Book Review Novels & Stories

"She was out there trying to find some closure of her own. She's still struggling with not remembering. It was sheer luck . . . or something that I showed up when I did. There's still no signal out there, so she couldn't even call for a tow." By this point in the story, I'd calmed a bit. So I could at least tone down how freaky it'd been to see her spunky side that reminded me so much of Madeline. Thankfully, Nolan had to leave. He was already late to meet his girl. So I could talk a little more openly about what happened without it feeling too awkward since Nolan did have feelings for Maggie once upon a time.

He asks with something in his voice I can't quite identify. "You don't know." I say with a slight chuckle in my voice. "Just pick one." I watch idle as he sifts through all the books until he picks one. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas. "That is one of my favourite books. Although I might just be biased because I love her writing." I lean back in the chair with a satisfied look on my face. "What makes you love someone's writing?" He sits back in his chair and looks at me curiously.

Lucky says and that fact calms me a little. He's right. Most of the women that work here are one's Lucky's personally helped. Lucky was a lot like Shane, bit hard by his ex-wife, but not for obvious reasons. He nearly lost his teenaged daughter because of her boyfriend beating her. She told her mother over and over but her mother was too far gone with how much money the douchebag earned. Once lucky found out, he killed the guy and nearly did the same to his ex. Lucy is now doing well, but it took her a few years to get over what she lived with every single day.

Chapter 1 Luck is known to be a fickle creature appearing and disappearing at a whim, though there are those so-called fortune's favorites who seem permanently in her favor while others seem just as equally misfortune's favorites cursed with bad luck. But perception is a tricky thing; what may at first appear to be misfortune may in fact be just the luck someone needs and what may appear to be a lucky step may in fact be bad luck in deed. But that is luck, chaos personified.

Alice mumbled. Leia stared at her with so much disapproval, but Alice turned a blind eye and opened her emergency comic book. She was reading Infinity Inc., the first volume and thirty-fourth issue. Of course, she had already read it, but she brought it today because this is where Hazard, a villain character, first appeared. Hazard was just like Alice. She brought bad luck to everyone around her but herself. And right now, Alice could relate to her more than anything else. When lunch came, Alice and Leia decided to take separate ways.

At least reading, I could pretend that I was one of the characters of the book. Currently, I was reading about a woman who had just gone through a major loss in her life and was learning to cope with it. She was surrounded by friends and family that gave her the support she needed and loved her even when she was being difficult. It was my favorite book, I have repeatedly checked it out.

“I lost him much more suddenly than I got him. One day in September he didn’t come home from work. I waited for him and called his office, when they told me that he had left hours ago, I started calling the hospitals. He was in bad condition. The doctors said that his brain would never work again, but when they unplugged him from all the machines, he stuck around. There were nurses to feed him and move his legs, and me to read my favorite books to him, and to place my kisses softly on his cheeks.” “I found out I was pregnant with you in the bathroom of that same hospital, delivered you there while your father sat in a coma for almost a year beneath us, unable to answer if he could hear me, i

"Well, I suppose I should still be grateful to God that, somehow, you haven't forgotten me... that even now, I was still the one your heart was beating for." He gently touched me and pulled me back into his arms. He was right. He was lucky that I wasn't able to forget him and I was the unlucky one to have loved only once in a lifetime. "I guess we're just lucky that fate is on our side because God somehow found a way for us to be together.” I said, feeling grateful.

How lucky I was. ***

There were several bloody scratches on his gaunt face, yet his eyes shone brightly as he smiled and urged me to eat quickly. “You’re hopeless, aren’t you? I’ll have to earn a fortune someday just to support you,” Shawn said with little thought and much carefreeness. Tears streamed uncontrollably down my cheeks as I lowered my head further. It was the first time anyone had ever been so kind to me. I was really moved. Therefore, back then, I lent him my rabbit’s foot luck. He could then steal ham sandwiches without getting caught by the director. From then on, everything was smooth sailing for him. Even the director began to treat him kindly.