A Little Too Far (25 page)

Authors: Lisa Desrochers

Trent and I are out there—official—and the Earth didn’t fall off its axis. I have Trent, and Dad and Julie still love us. Alessandro is with his family. He’s still sorting things out, but he’s going to be okay. Sam will most likely hate me forever, but maybe not. This might just be okay.

Maybe there are happily ever afters. Who knew?

Lexie and Trent may have found their happily-ever-after,

but Alessandro Moretti’s story is just beginning . . .

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A Little Too Much

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There are ghosts in twenty-two-year-old Hilary McIntyre’s past that she’d just as soon forget. But life is finally starting to look up. She’s gotten herself straightened out and she’s daring to shoot for her childhood dream of becoming a Broadway actress. She’s got the voice, she’s got the looks, now all she needs is the in, and her boyfriend, who’s already scored a major support role, is going to be it. But unfortunately for Hilary, ghosts from your past don’t always stay dead.

When Alessandro Moretti shows up on her doorstep, she knows he could ruin everything, but he’s got ghosts of his own, and apparently, she’s one of them. She hasn’t seen him since they were teenagers in the group home, but a week hasn’t gone by in the eight years since that she hasn’t thought of him or his brother. Even so, there’s no way she’s going to let his reappearance throw her off her game. And she sure as hell isn’t going to tell him her secret—even though there’s something about him that makes her want to. When she finds herself falling for him all over again, she has a decision to make. Her future or her past? The truth or the lie?

I
STOP AT
the ATM and deposit my check, then head home. The drizzle has picked up and by the time I get there, I’m pretty soaked, but I don’t really mind. I like walking in the rain. It’s one of the few things other than sex that I find really calming. Puddles are starting to form on the sidewalk and I walk right through them, splashing up as much water as I can without full-out stomping like a four-year-old. I’m actually smiling when I get to the door of our apartment and look up.

And then I’m not smiling anymore.

There’s a guy standing in my doorway. A tall guy in black cargo pants, army boots, and a blue hoodie. A gorgeous guy. And he’s staring at me.

“Hilary?” he asks, and he’s got a light accent that I can’t identify with just that one word. Something European, maybe?

“It depends,” I say backing off a step. He looks familiar, but I can’t place him. He’s got wavy black hair that’s slicked back from his forehead and dark eyes all set in one of the most beautiful man-faces I’ve ever seen. His skin is olive, no darker than mine, but a totally different shade. He’s got to be an actor or something. Maybe I know him from an audition? “Who’s asking?”

“It’s me, Hilary. Alessandro.”

His face blurs and the streetlights above my head spin. I feel myself wobble on my feet before I brace my hand on the building and get my bearings again. “Alessandro?” I’ve only known one person with that name.

His face scrunches a little. “Alessandro Moretti . . . from the group home?”

The next thing I know I’m on my ass in a puddle, my legs having turned to Jell-O, and Alessandro has my arm. I look up at his concerned face. “What are you doing here?”

He helps me off the sidewalk but stops short of brushing off my ass. “I needed to see you . . . to talk to you.”

My stomach plummets to my toes and I think for a second that I should have stayed down. Does he know? How could he have found out?

I lean back against the wall for support. “Where’s Lorenzo?” All of a sudden I’m desperate to know if he’s coming for me too.

His lips press into a hard line and his charcoal eyes darken. He closes them and breathes deep before opening them again. “Lorenzo has been dead for two years.”

About the Author

LISA DESROCHERS is the author of the young adult
Personal Demons
trilogy. She lives in northern California with her husband, two very busy daughters, and Shini the tarantula. If you’d told her five years ago she’d write a book, she’d have laughed in your face. As it turns out, she’d owe you an apology. Writing has become an addiction for Lisa, and
A Little Too Far
is her first novel for adults. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, and she adores stories that take her to new places, then take her by surprise.

Find her online at www.lisadwrites.com, on Twitter at @LisaDez, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lisadwrites.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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A Little Too Much
copyright © 2013 by Lisa Desrochers.

A LITTLE TOO
FAR
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EPub Edition SEPTEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780062298997

Print Edition ISBN: 9780062299017

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