An Impossible Secret
J. B. Leigh
Language: English
Pages: 111
ISBN: 1492959405
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
An improbable love. An impossible secret.
Brice is the kind of guy who attracts a lot of female attention on campus, but he hasn't found anyone who he's even remotely interested in. Then he meets Kerry.
Kerry is invisible - at least that's how it feels. Why would a guy like Brice ask her out, and what will happen when he discovers her secret?
thoughts. Kerry had spent countless hours wondering what it would be like to have a boyfriend. She’d come to believe it might never happen. Every morning since she'd met him, when she woke, there were a few moments when she wondered if it had all been a dream. By five thirty, the library had started to empty; the doors were locked at six. Brice had never shown up later than four o’clock before. Maybe he was ill or had football training. If she had a phone, he could have contacted her. The
Peter.” “What happened?” “We'd split up before you were six months old. It’s complicated, but in the end, I knew someone else would give you a better life.” “Why couldn’t you have raised me alone?” “I wanted to. You have to believe that I wanted to. It just wasn’t possible.” Kerry could see the pain in Dawn’s eyes and, although she wanted to know more, she didn’t feel she should push the subject any further for the moment. Instead, she allowed Dawn to ask the questions. Dawn wanted to know
modest. Her make-up, if she was actually wearing any, was very subtle. So many students considered studies to be an interruption of their social life. Brice had fought hard to get a place at university, and was determined to get the best degree he could. He didn't want to end up in a dead-end job; he wanted a career. Some students seemed to breeze through their course—not Brice. He'd never found it easy—the only way he would get a good degree would be to work twice as hard as everyone else. He
It's almost as if Lizzie couldn't bear to lose Kerry to you.” “This is crazy!” “Kerry will be devastated when she knows what's happened.” “Surely, she must know already,” Brice said. “You heard what she said to me when I came to your house.” “That was Lizzie. Kerry will wake up with a migraine. She won't remember what Lizzie said.” “What about the clothes—she looked so different.” Kerry and Lizzie are very different people. Kerry would never dress or act like Lizzie.” “What am I supposed
corridor outside the lecture theatre. “Your car.” “What about it? Don't tell me it's been nicked.” There had been a spate of car thefts from the university car park over the last six months. “No. It’s still there.” “What then?” “Someone’s keyed it.” “Shit!” Brice pushed past Jimmy, and took the stairs two at a time. Jimmy followed a few paces behind. “Bastard!” Brice slid his finger along the scratch which ran across the rear door, driver’s door, and front wing. “Who do you reckon did