Sugar and Spice
READING AGE 18+
Mallory Baxter lives a perfect life filled with perfect straight lines inside of a perfect house. She has goals. She has aspirations. And she has a father who’s convinced her she has to be a machine if she has any hopes of amounting to anything.
Jay Dawson is chaos incarnate, in Mallory’s eyes. He lives the life of a drifter, unconcerned with straight lines or aspirations. He takes things day by day. So when he shows up at Stella Cucina, ready to start his summer job, Mallory has to face a reality where the perfect, straight lines that she’s always held onto no longer matter.
Will Jay be the variable that finally overrides the system and teaches her how to be human? Or will Mallory’s straight lines lead her to her goals, away from the town of Emerald Bay, and out of Jay’s life for good?It’s a prequel to “Off the Menu,” and the first in my spin-off series, “Emerald Bay Love Stories.”
Potential trigger warnings: weed/cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, fighting
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Eight-fifteen.
I sat at my desk, the glow of my laptop screen reflecting in the glass of the framed “Academic Excellence” certificate that hung on the wall. The cursor on my internship application essay blinked steadily.
The propulsion systems of the mid-range ballistic—
I deleted the line. My brain was n……
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