Category: Duchelli Legacy

  • Chapter 39

    Invisible String Myra sighed. “… but you know what my mom is like. There’s no mercy. So I had to apologise to my dumb teacher. Ugh, parents.” I tried to mimic her tone. “Yeah. Parents. Can’t live with them, can’t leave them yet. At least not for two more years.…

  • Chapter 38

    Long Story Short “I’m sorry for your loss. Your mother was a great woman.” “Thank you for coming.” My heart ached for Samuel as he stoically received their condolences. The room slowly emptied. Samuel’s father stood mutely by the casket, grief lining his face. Hailey was talking to him in…

  • Chapter 37

    This Love When we entered the bedroom, I anxiously wondered if it would break the spell. Maybe being back in this room would remind Samuel what happened, what I did to him. But he just kept kissing me, almost aggressively, and I wanted him to never stop. He pushed me…

  • Chapter 36

    Out Of The Woods “Daddy, did you see how fast I was? Did you see me?” “I saw you, you did so well! Ivy and I were cheering for you all the time.” Hailey had placed second in her first track run. I worked as a coach for the track…

  • Chapter 35

    This Is Me Trying When I found the rose, I knew that Samuel had been there. I could imagine all too well what he’d seen. I never meant for it to happen like this. I knew that what I did was the end of my marriage, knew that I was…

  • Chapter 34

    So It Goes… It was Saturday morning and things were becoming predictable. I had just gotten out of bed as Samuel entered the room. He came straight from the shower after sleeping on the couch again. I missed him. Even when he was home, he just seemed so far away.…

  • Chapter 33

    Forever & Always I had hoped the constant worrying would go away after we got married. After all, wasn’t that what I had been waiting for? And then we had Hailey, and a year later we had a mortgage in Copperdale, far away from everyone we knew. I was also…

  • Chapter 32

    Never Grow Up Less than a year later, Samuel and I were married. The wedding was everything I’d dreamed of. I’m sure our parents would happily have paid for an enormous wedding if we’d asked them to. But that wasn’t our style. All I wanted was a small, intimate affair…

  • Chapter 31

    King of My Heart Samuel. The taste of him on my lips, his arms around my body. Nothing else mattered. Nothing else existed. I didn’t want him to stop. I wanted more. I wished he’d just tell me what to do, take away my doubts and second-guessing and worry. I…

  • Chapter 30

    It’s Nice to Have a Friend I walked away from my father and Cecilia as quickly as I could. Of course my dad would drag out the goodbyes forever. He was always a bit sentimental when it came to me and Gracie. I remembered how he had teared up when…