Until Fountain Bridge by Samantha Young

Author:Samantha Young [Young, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781405914987
Google: b5gw8PVY3rcC
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
Published: 2013-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

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There had been a few times in my teen years I’d cried myself to sleep. A couple of those

times had even been over Adam. But when I was a teenager, like most teenagers, anything

remotely negative seemed like the complete and total end of the world. Thankfully that flair

for the drama usually disappears as you enter adulthood. It did for me anyway. So when I say

I sobbed myself to sleep that night, it was without a sense of faux melodrama. The pain inside

of me was real. It was genuine. It was raw.

For a good eight hours I believed that not only had I been given 100% proof positive that

Adam Sutherland didn’t love me the way that I loved him, I also believed that I’d ruined us

and destroyed one of my favorite things in the whole world —my friendship with him.

I barely slept and woke up early to make myself tea, sitting in my big flat alone and puffy-

faced wearing mismatched socks on my feet and a broken crocodile clip in my hair.

A pounding on the front door made me jump and sent hot tea over the rim of my mug and

splashing onto my skin. I bit back a curse and placed the mug carefully on the table,

scurrying out of the room and into the darkened hall.

“Ellie, open up!” Adam shouted through the thick wood. “Ellie!”

I wanted to talk to him. I wanted to somehow fix things and rewind the clock, but I knew

if I let him inside the flat he’d take one look at my face and realize that I, Ellie Nichols

Carmichael, was completely and utterly in love with him and that last night had devastated

me.

So I didn’t open the door. I leaned against the wall in my hallway and slid down until I

was sitting on the cold hardwood floor. I listened as Adam pounded my door and called my

name. I listened as my phone rang in my bedroom. I listened as Adam left a message on it. I

listened as he walked away…

When I woke up I was curled up on the cold floor. I blinked, trying to get my bearings and

as I did, everything came flooding back. I didn’t have time to dwell on it, however, because I

realized what had woken me up was my phone ringing. I got to my feet with a groan, my

back and neck hurting from my awkward sleeping position, and I ran into my room to pick it

up. According to the clock on my phone I’d been asleep for just over two hours.

My stomach flipped at the sight of the picture of Adam on my phone. I sucked in a deep

breath and answered it.

“Ellie, thank fuck,” he breathed in relief and I could just imagine him tugging at his hair in

anxiety. “I came by earlier.”

“I was sleeping. I had more wine last night so I was kind of dead to the world,” I lied.

“Els, I don’t even know where to start. I’m so sorry. God, I’m so sorry.”

“Adam—”

“I can’t lose you, Els. I can’t believe I fucked up like this but you have to forgive me.

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