It's Complicated by Julia Kent

Author:Julia Kent [Kent, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: series, bbw romance, contemporary romance, romantic comedy
Published: 2013-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

Ignoring Alex’s texts was like listening to a Justin Bieber acceptance speech at the Billboard Music Awards.

Torture.

Once again, Laura was impossible to reach. Her calls to Darla were ignored. Who else was she supposed to talk to? Crackhead? As hours ticked by, and then two days, she started to think he was her only option.

How had it gotten this bad? When had her isolation become so complete? It wasn’t like she didn’t have work friends she went out with for drinks here and there. Small talk was easy and they laughed at each other’s stories and jokes. But when she thought about it—really thought about it—not a single one of those people were someone she could turn to in the middle of the night in an emergency.

Only Laura and Darla.

Alex was the kind of man who could join that club. He was. She knew it. Josie felt so fucked up compared to Alex. Her mother was fucked up compared to his mother. Crafting an adult life that made sense had been an enormous struggle, without any of the guidance that people normally get from their parents. Life bisected into two parts: before the crash and after the crash. Drawing strength from life “BC” had kept Josie going for a very long time, propelled her out of Peters and here, to Cambridge, in a life that looked like it made sense from the outside.

And it had.

Until Alex rocked her world.

If you define yourself by what you’re running away from, then how do you know when you’ve arrived at where you’re going to? So many years of pulling herself away from a dysfunctional life, of establishing herself as a professional, as a financially stable young woman, had melded into one big concept of not. Josie was not her mother. Josie was not a sociopath. Josie was not incompetent. Josie was not the source of Marlene’s problems.

Josie was not.

Then what was she? How do you live a centered life when you don’t know where or what your center is? The thought looped through her mind a thousand times a day, the only anchor in her life. It weighed her down, pinning her in place, and as toxic as it was, at least it was there. Unlike Laura and Darla, who were absent at the most critical juncture of her life.

Show up for your own life, Josie, a voice said. You don’t need them. Do the right thing. Find your core on your own.

And that was the problem with Alex. At the core, he was grounded and stable and knew himself deeply. What kind of doctor deferred to CNMs and patient wishes so fully? One who knew himself, who trusted his instincts, and who drew faith from an inner sense of truth.

What kind of man accepted her for who she was, quirks and all? Screeching brakes in her head made that thought come to a dead halt, because that was the fulcrum of her imbalanced soul. When Alex got to see the real her—the

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.