Lost Avalon by K.S. Thomas is now available!
In May, I participated in a Romance in a Month class. It was tons of fun and I met some awesome authors that I now chat with on a regular basis. My new writing bestie, K.S. Thomas, is the first in the class to publish her story from our class! I was lucky enough to beta read this story about Ava and Blaise and I absolutely fell in love with them. I hope to publish my story soon too! Congrats K.S., so proud of you!
LOST AVALON
A New Contemporary Romance by K.S. Thomas
Fame, fortune and a future paved with rock and roll gold. Blaise Nolan has it all. With his brooding good looks, haunting voice and troubled lyrics of a soul gone lost, it’s no wonder Finding Nolan has been climbing the music charts with back to back hits. Only Blaise didn’t wind up brooding, haunted and lost by accident…
Avalon Jennison has been the girl next door since she was five. The best friend since she was eight. The band manager since she was sixteen and the keeper of his secrets always. Ava’s been there every step of the way, helping him live his dreams and keeping his nightmares at bay. But the years of putting Blaise’s needs above her own are about to be over.
However, Blaise has one secret even Ava doesn’t know..and it could be the thing that breaks her heart completely, or finally puts it back together.
**CONTENT WARNING ~ ADULT LANGUAGE**
~ Ava ~
“Ava.”
“Huh?” I could feel his face nestled in my hair close to my ear.
“Time to come out of your head,” he whispered.
I turned around to face him. “I’m scared.”
He gently kissed the tip of my nose. “I know.”
“You and me, we’re all kinds of fucked up. What if we end up hurting each other more?”
“We won’t.” He sounded so sure.
“Blaise…My heart’s been cracked and chipped away at so many times, some days I’m not even sure how much I’ve kept of it and how much I’ve left behind in pieces. It’s fragile and frankly, handing it to you feels a lot like inviting the bull into the china shop.”
There was something almost painful in his eyes. “Your heart will never be safer than it is with me, Ava.”
“How can you say that?” My voice was all croaky from the lump in my throat which was getting harder and harder to keep down.
“Because, I’m the only one who knows how to put the pieces back together.”
Tears erupting from the corners of my eyes, I squeezed them shut and fiercely pressed my lips to his. For all the times he’d said all the wrong things or been too fucked up to say anything at all, he certainly always came through when I needed him to most.
~ Blaise ~
Royce and I just stood there staring at the closed door. Then we heard the water go on in the shower and realized she wasn’t coming back out anytime soon.
“What are you going to do when you’re sober?” Royce was looking way too satisfied with himself.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, what are you going to do when there’s no more reason to play pretend? Are you hoping she just gets so used to acting like your girlfriend that she’ll forget that she’s not?”
He wasn’t blocking the fucking door anymore, so I was free to make my exit. Which I did.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Sure you don’t.” Royce was following me out of the room and back into the kitchen.
“Look. I don’t expect you to understand my relationship with Ava.”
Royce shrugged. “What’s to understand? You’re in love with her.”
“This is what I’m talking about. Why do people always assume that when a guy and a girl are close friends, it means that one of them has to be in love with the other?”
Royce went to get the cup of coffee he had abandoned before shit got heated. “I don’t assume that.” He took a sip, made a face and stuck the coffee in the microwave. “I would have no problem believing that the two of you were best friends who had a completely platonic relationship…if I didn’t know for a fact that it was complete and utter bullshit.” His coffee was done and he took another drink, this time with better results. “If it makes you feel any better, she’s clearly in love with you, too. Although, unlike you, I don’t think she’s aware of it.” Then he took his cup and left to go out onto the terrace.
Unlike me? Where was he coming up with this…this ridiculous…truth. It was true. I was in love with Ava. And she felt the same way about me. Thing Royce in all his smugness had failed to see was that I’d made damn sure she stayed unaware of it.
LOST AVALON is now available on AMAZON and for a limited time it’s only 99 cents!!
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