Rewritten (Unwritten Book 2) (34 page)
Allison sits silent with no expression on her face. I tense up, afraid of her silence. “What do you think?”
“No,” Allison looks down.
I frown, “But Allison…”
“No, Charlie. We can’t tear down your childhood home…” She pauses smiling sweetly looking up at me. “We can remodel if you want but I wouldn’t dream to tear down any memory of your childhood.”
My face explodes with excitement as I wrap my arms around Allison, swinging her around before placing my hands on either side of her face whispering, “I love you, Allison,” before I kiss her softly.
We’re back home getting ready for bed. I turn to Allison, “I just have to do one thing then I’ll be in for bed,” I say as I kiss Allison’s head.
Allison walks into the bedroom as I sit at the kitchen bar pulling a check out of my wallet. It’s a cashier’s check for $825,000.
I grab a notepad and an envelope addressing it to Detective O’Brien. Inside the letter I write:
Turns out we did inherit her money. Now go save your girl.
Love,
Mr. Ashley
Lauren Runow is a lover of music and songs that speak to her or make her dance. She is a graduate from the Academy of Art in San Francisco and lives in Northern California with her husband and two wild and crazy boys. If she’s not at her local CrossFit or working on the community magazine her husband and her publish together, she’s at the baseball field with her boys or taking them to the skatepark.
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Up All Night
by Unwritten Law
(Charlie plays this on the way to the hospital to see Jacquelyn for the first time.)
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Pain
by Three Days Grace
(Charlie stops his workout, contemplating the lyrics to this song.)
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Love Love Love
by Unwritten Law
(Charlie plays this for Allison when he picks her up from the airport.)
• Beethoven
Symphony No.3 Eroica
(Charlie plays this the first time him and Allison are back together while they make love.)
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Waste My Time
by Saint Asonia
(Charlie plays this song for Allison saying it reminds him of himself and how he feels about her.)
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We Found Love
by Rihanna
(Paul and Nichole dance to this at the club.)
• Casual Sex
by My Darkest Days
(Nichole sends this song to Paul when they are discussing their relationship status.)
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Savior
by Rise Against
(After Charlie walks in on Allison and Alex kissing this song plays on the radio. The same song that they first discussed at the coffee shop.)
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Bad Girlfriend
by Theory of a Deadman
(This song plays at CrossFit when Nichole joins them for the first time on New Years day.)
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In Da Club
by 50 Cent play
Riot
by Three Days Grace
(These are the songs Andy plays at CrossFit on Charlie’s birthday.)
For Charlie’s birthday scene Allison plays these songs through his earphones.
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Love Love Love
by Unwritten Law
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Elva
by Unwritten Law
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Because of You
by Unwritten Law
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I Like the Way
by Unwritten Law
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Rest of My Life
by Unwritten Law
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Marry Me
by Train
(Plays when Charlie and Allison bring Lyric home from the hospital.)
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Starships and Apocalypse
by Unwritten Law
(The song that plays at the Unwritten Law concert.)
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Rest of My Life
by Unwritten Law
(Charlie sings this to Allison when he proposes on stage.)
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My Town
by Montgomery Gentry
(When Charlie is taking Allison to his childhood home this song comes on the radio.)
I can’t begin to explain how grateful I am for everyone who has helped make my dreams come true. First and foremost, I’d like to thank my husband Chris who has been so supportive through this entire process and put up with me sitting every night with my computer on my lap or a book in my hand. He’s even worked hard at trying to give me material to write about. I am forever grateful for his love and companionship.
Of course, I’d like to thank my best friend Sonia Aguero who has been there since day one of my journey, giving me her ideas, her feedback and of course just moral support. You can thank her for Paul, a name near and dear to her heart with the same dimples to match.
Thank you to my beta readers, Lacy Pryde, Angie Bates, Michelle Strand, Amy Gentili and Leah Purnell for all of your feedback and help making
Rewritten
what it is today.
Entering the world as an author has introduced me to some amazing people who I am forever grateful for, one of them being the amazing author, Jeannine Colette. Her first book,
Pure Abandon
, came out two months before mine and I have no clue what I would have done without her guidance. Her next book,
Reckless Abandon
, just came out and I highly recommend them both!
To my first official fans and creators of my street team, Lauren’s Law Breakers, on Facebook, I’d like to thank Giovanna Bovenzi Cruz, Aubrie Brown and Laurie Breitsprecher for their countless hours of promoting me and
Unwritten
on multiple pages through Facebook and Instagram. I can’t begin to tell you guys how much I appreciate everything you have done.
My dreams would not have come true without the help of Autumn Hull with Wordsmith Publicity and all of the bloggers who helped spread the word about
Unwritten
by posting cover reveals, teasers and writing reviews. Bloggers are such a huge part of the book world and us writers would be nothing without them so thank you!
Last, but definitely not least, I’d like to thank all the readers out there. An author would be nobody without their readers and I can’t tell you what it does to a writer, especially a new one, when someone you don’t know reaches out to you to tell you how much they loved your book. It seriously brings tears to my eyes every time I read your emails or posts. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
Read an excerpt from S.L. Ziegler’s book,
Fighting to Start
.
Fighting to Start
By S.L. Ziegler
Prologue
Whoever said it’s better to have love and lost than to have never loved at all is lying.
Whoever said your first love is just a stepping-stone to one even better is bull-shitting everyone.
Whoever said a person that loves once can love again is sadly mistaken.
Whoever said love is enough to get through anything is deceiving you.
Everything about love is nothing but lies—big, ugly, nasty lies.
All of it.
Here’s the truth: it’s the biggest load of shit ever uttered. Love is only a tragedy. An emotion that leaves you empty, broken, and gutted. It takes everything from you until you’re dead on the inside—the pointless heartbeat in your chest is the only thing proving you’re still alive.
Because when you truly love someone with every ounce of yourself—with every breath you take—and they just up and leave you, it doesn’t just break you. It decimates you, starting slow from the inside and working its way out like a blazing fire. You carry on, but nothing of who you used to be survives. You will do
anything
to make the ache you feel inside go away, but nothing ever works.