“Believe it,” I said, leaning over to kiss both of my girls and rub Bex’s belly where my son was growing.
Our record with the big label had come out two months ago. It had spent every day since it’s release in the top ten on the rock charts. Six months from now, after our family settled from having our second child, a son we would name Jaden Jonathan at Bex’s insistence, we would start our own tour around the country as the headliners. We would be making it a family affair and bringing the kids with us.
Julia and Carter had welcomed baby Julian a few weeks before Lennox was born, and they said their family was complete. Our kids would grow up to be the best of friends, just like we were. Even though Bex and I couldn’t be any more different than my sister and her husband, it just worked.
My parents had come out for both Julian and Lennox’s birth, and things finally seemed like they were on track in every part of my life. I’d finally stopped looking over my shoulder, always worried that someone was going to pop out of the shadows and resurrect my old life. It seemed that despite my now rather public persona that my skeletons were staying in their closet. I hoped I never had to revisit that part of my life again. I knew that I couldn’t live life in fear of what might happen because there were never any guarantees in life. So I lived each day loving my career, my wife, and my child, and went to bed at night thankful for the time I’ve been given.
When I thought back to the life I had before I’d met Bex, it often felt like I wasn’t even the same person. But then again, I guessed I wasn’t. Back then I’d been determined to keep myself in my own self-imposed prison, locking myself away from any possibility of feeling anything or doing anything that I loved ever again.
But once Bex found the key to my cell and opened up the bars, I’d been free ever since. My sentence had been served. It was time to live. She’d freed me, and I’d freed her. Together, we put the past behind us and moved on to bigger and better things.
THE END
THE LIVING AGAIN SERIES
(all standalones, but best read as the series)
Living Again (Living Again #1)
Reaching Rachel (Living Again #2)
Guarding Hearts (Living Again #3)
Finding Forever (Living Again #4)
Breaking Free: A Living Again Novella (Living Again #4.5)
LIVING AGAIN BOXED SET
Living Again Boxed Set
THE TWISTED SERIES (NOT standalones)
Twisted Souls (Twisted #1)
Twisted Paths (Twisted #2)
STANDALONES
Back to the Drawing Board
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L.L. Collins loves spending her days in the Florida sun with her husband and two boys, reading, and writing. LL has been writing since she was old enough to write. Always a story in her head, she finally decided to let the characters out made her lifelong dream of becoming an author come true in the self-publishing world. She's the author of the Living Again Series and the Twisted Series, plus a new standalone, Back to the Drawing Board. Visit LL on her website, www.llcollinsauthor.com and on all social media. Look for more of her emotionally charged novels soon!
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Bed of Roses ~ Bon Jovi
So Cold ~ Breaking Benjamin
The Reason ~ Hoobastank
I Saw Red ~ Warrant
Never Stop ~ SafetySuit
Self Esteem ~ The Offspring
Every Rose Has It’s Thorn ~ Poison
Without You ~ Motley Crue
More Than Words ~ Extreme
Alone ~ Heart
Famous Last Words ~ My Chemical Romance
Breakeven ~ The Script
Here Without You ~ 3 Doors Down
My Immortal ~ Evanescence
Nothing Else Matters ~ Metallica
Numb ~ Linkin Park
I’ll Follow You ~ Shinedown
Dear Agony ~ Breaking Benjamin
Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone) ~ Cinderella
I Remember You ~ Skid Row
Blurry ~ Puddle of Mudd
Remedy ~ Seether
Love-Hate-Sex-Pain ~ Godsmack
What I Got ~ Sublime
I Hate Everything About You ~ Three Days Grace
Locked Away ~ R. City, Adam Levine
I Don’t Wanna Be In Love ~ Dark Waves
Fix You ~ Coldplay
Foxy, Foxy ~ Rob Zombie
What Do I Have To Do? ~ Stabbing Westward
Here’s to Us ~ Halestorm
Walk ~ Pantera
Lithium ~ Evanescence
Closer ~ Nine Inch Nails
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You ~ Cary Brothers
Love Bites [So Do I] ~ Halestorm
Apocalyptic ~ Halestorm
Expectations ~ Three Days Grace
Nothing’s Fair In Love and War ~ Three Days Grace
Master of Disaster ~ Seether
Careless Whisper ~ Seether
Plastic Man ~ Seether
Here’s to Us ~ Halestorm
Bad Girl’s World ~ Halestorm
Diamond Eyes ~ Shinedown
No More Love ~ Shinedown
Shatter Me ~ Lindsey Stirling
I Am The Fire ~ Halestorm
Fallen Angel ~ Three Days Grace
Never Too Late ~ Three Days Grace
Familiar Taste of Poison ~ Halestorm
Break In ~ Halestorm
What Were You Expecting ~ Halestorm
Beautiful With You ~ Halestorm
Anywhere But Here ~ SafetySuit
Scars ~ Papa Roach
Breath ~ Breaking Benjamin