Lipstick Sunset – The Redux
If I lay here forever, this can’t end, she thought, in vain.
If I never give up this room, it will be mine, forever.
She pulled the covers over her face.
If I stay here, who will miss me?
But he’d have to stay with me…
The thought scored her heart. She felt like she was bleeding internally. She’d never lost anyone who didn’t want her gone. She felt the desperation of young lovers torn apart at the end of a perfect summer tryst.
Sam slammed her fists into the mattress and resented the tears that streamed from her eyes. The sheet covering her face snatched each droplet before it could tumble down her temple. She resented that as well. She wanted to savor this exquisite misery.
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Excerpt from All or Nothing Girl, the forthcoming novel from Blake Charles Donley
Blake Charles Donley 