Innocence by Lucy St. John

Author:Lucy St. John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult romance, college sex, college romance, romatic suspense, romantic suspense series, new romance authors, new romance series

Chapter 17

I promised I would cut to the chase – those events that would change all of our lives that freshman year. Thinking about it like this, it’s more like skipping the chase and cutting to the crash -- the spectacular, end-over-end, metal crunching, gas-tank-exploding conflagration that you are positive no one walks away from.

Well, it’s coming. I promise.

But first I must tell you how our lives unfolded in the early weeks of that first semester, with the summer waning, the all-important football season beginning, the parties ramping up on and off campus – and the hormones of 25,000 college students surging like the tidal rush from a hurricane.

Amanda Livingston wasn’t one to give in to the baser instincts of her hormones and the sexual urgings they stirred. The British are known for their reserve, their stiff-upper lip, if you will. And while Amanda possessed sumptuous lips – and a luscious body, to boot – the cravings that drove her attraction weren’t carnal. These needs were secondary to whatever daddy issues and security needs were locked deep inside the little girl who grew up with a young, single and very attractive mother.

A mother not much older than Amanda was now. A mother ill-equipped to hold that title. A mother who did possess those carnal needs that Amanda attempted to deny and suppress in herself. A young, pretty mother who got very little help in a rough part of London, where people kept to themselves and looked down their noses at single moms, no matter how attractive they were.

Unless that mother happened to be offering something. Something to the men. Men with beady eyes who populated the pubs and had only one thing on their minds. Well, two. Getting drunk was a national pastime in England, after all. But it’s a quiet and more reserved kind of drunk than what we know in America. In England, alcohol is a lonely Londoner’s best friend. And the local pub is a social network and a second living room. It was to this venue that Amanda’s mother sought refuge from all her responsibilities, represented by the blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl at home. Amanda was an unwanted gift from her mother’s older lover. A man of the world, not prone to marry and one never to stay in one place very long. A man Amanda would set off after, leading her to America and all its opportunity. More opportunity than she would have ever have found in her profoundly limiting, class-conscious home country that came off like a picture-postcard to most Americans. But we knew nothing about the realities of a place – and entire society – ordered upon the station and status of one’s birth.

Well, suffice it to say, Amanda lost the maternity lottery. But she had broken free from the class-conscious confinement of her home country. She had come to America. And the wide-open country with its limitless stories to tell and to photograph, were her canvas.

She wanted to be a journalist. Amanda saw it as a higher calling.

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