The Left Side Of Perfect – Release Day – August 30
For better or for worse,'til death do us part . . .
The better captured me; she's who stole my heart.
And made me realize I couldn’t live without this woman.
The worse of her took my breath away--kicked me when I was down and twisted me into a million knots.
When I first met her, I thought she was someone I would never see again.
The second time I ran into her, it was a random coincidence.
The third?
I didn’t know it at the time, but she was the girl I was going to marry.
But life isn’t always perfect. You have to take the better and the worse--even if it means giving her up, having her slip between your fingers, and letting her walk away.
I’m getting married.
This is forever, 'til death do us part.
The Right Side Of Forever – Release Day August 31
In sickness and in health, to love and to cherish . . .
It sounds so simple, to love someone unconditionally.
To give them your heart.
So why is she slowly eating away at my soul with every unanswered phone call, every unread text, and every door left unopened?
EXCERPT
Her hands rest on her
hips, the navy-blue Grecian-style dress draped down the length of her body, a
small slit on the side that barely reaches her knee. “You’re really fixated on
this, aren’t you?”
“Nah, didn’t care too
much. A homemade dinner would have been nice, though.”
“I can’t cook.”
“Neither can I,” I
answer honestly. I either eat out, or I make myself scrambled eggs, and that’s
about it. Rory taught me how to make meatballs once but hell if I can remember
how to do that. All I know is that I enjoyed crushing the beef between my
fingers. I get by with limited knowledge in the kitchen.
She chuckles. “Well,
aren’t we a pair?” She turns to watch Stryder and Rory together. Apparently not
giving a shit about the even bigger elephant in the room, Ryan asks, “Is this
weird for you?”
“I have a flask in my
jacket pocket, so you tell me.”
She lifts her bouquet
and pulls out a mini bottle of alcohol. She wiggles her eyebrows at me.
“Thought maybe we’d both need this since we have to sit through having all
these pictures taken with them.”
“Smirnoff? That’s what
you brought with you?”
“It was all I had. Don’t
judge me.”
“I’m judging.”
Playfully she whacks my
arm. “You shouldn’t be judging me. It was innovative. I carved out a little
space in my bouquet for this bottle. If anything, you should congratulate me on
this genius idea.”
“Was it your idea?”
“I mean”—she toes the
ground—“I might have seen the idea on Pinterest along with a recipe for beer
cookies that tasted like vomit.”
“Beer cookies?” I shake
my head and take the little bottle from her. Twist the cap, tilt the bottle
back, and swig. I hand it back to her, leaving half the bottle. “Even I know
better than to think beer cookies would taste good.”
“They were for a
boyfriend I was trying to impress.”
“Impress or poison?”
“Impress.” She laughs.
“Although after our breakup, I should probably say poison. Teach all future
suitors: if you mess with me, you get poisoned.”
“It’d keep me away,
that’s for damn sure.”
She finishes the rest of
the little bottle and returns it to her bouquet. She pats it and says, “I can
recycle it later.”
“Get drunk and save the
earth. Sounds like a good combination to me.”
“Ryan and Colby, can we
get you over here for a few pictures?” the photographer calls out.
“That’s our cue.” Ryan
pokes my cheek with her index finger, looking sincerely at me. “Don’t forget to
smile, because these pictures will last forever.”
“Scowling not in the job
description of best man?”
As we walk over, she
says, “I would normally say no, but given the bride is your ex-girlfriend, one
scowl is allowed.”
About the Author
Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if "It's Raining Men" starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.
Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing... enter her first novel, Caught Looking.
Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!
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