About THE TATTERED GLOVES
Head down.
Don’t look up.
Never make eye contact.
Those were the words I lived by growing up, the words that protected me in an unsafe home. But words are only letters and eventually even they couldn’t keep his hands off me.
Hoping to leave behind the shattered life of my past, I find myself in a boring, small town, with an aunt I’ve never met and at a school I loathe.
But soon I learn, not everything in this world is as black and white as I’ve determined. Sometimes those we are so quick to judge often need a second, third or even fourth time to make a first impression.
And often, there are friendships and even love waiting just around the corner, if we are brave enough to take the first step.
Am I brave? Or will I hide behind these tattered gloves of mine forever?
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“Your mother does know what size you wear, doesn’t she?”
Addy asked the next morning as I walked out of the bathroom, showered and
dressed for school.
Looking down at another version of the black long-sleeved
shirt I’d worn the day before, I shook my head. “No,” I answered. “This is
hers. Most of my clothes are. She always just gave me what she didn’t want
anymore.”
Her eyes widened and then softened.
“Well, I meant what I said. I’m taking you into town this
weekend. You’re too tiny to be wearing your mom’s hand-me-downs. She’s got to
be at least two sizes bigger than you.”
Four sizes, but who is
counting?
“Maybe, if I keep feeding you like this, you’ll actually
grow some meat on those bones of yours,” she suggested, her keen eyes still
fixated on my body.
It made me suddenly aware of the way my jeans felt so loose
around my hips… how easily they fell from my body.
“You and me… we’re the
same.”
The memory of his
voice cut through my mind like a razor blade, and I instantly stiffened.
“Willow? You okay?” Addy noticed my change in mood almost
instantly. She moved to my aid but stopped herself before her hand reached my
shoulder. “Whatever is going through your mind right now, it will fade.”
“It won’t,” I said through clenched teeth. “It will never
fade.”
“It will. Maybe not today or tomorrow, not even next year…
but with time, it will fade. And it will heal.”
“You don’t know. You can’t—”
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About J.L. Berg
J.L. Berg is the USA Today bestselling author of the Ready Series, The Walls Duet, and the Lost & Found Duet. She is a California native living in the beautiful state of historic Virginia. Married to her high school sweetheart, they have two beautiful girls that drive them batty on a daily basis. When she's not writing, you will find her with her nose stuck in a romance novel, in a yoga studio or devouring anything chocolate. J.L. Berg is represented by Jill Marsal of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, LLC.
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