Finding Our Reality

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>** This is Book Two of a Duet. Do not read this novel without first reading Escaping Our Reality: The Reality Duet Book One.**</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Ella</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm back. Little did I know </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>he's</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> back too. Apparently I'm the only one who didn't know.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not only is he back in town but he's working my sister's case. Declaring he'll do anything to solve it. So why did he try to stop me all those years ago?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What the hell happened to him? I'll tell you what happened. He ruined my life. He walked away and wrecked me. Made me turn into someone I hated. Made me turn </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>to</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> someone I hated. And while I was dragging myself through agony he apparently was screwing half the women in Alabama.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'll never forgive him. And if he thinks he's going to solve my sister's case all by himself he's got another thing coming.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because I'm the best there is.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Crutch</em></strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> back. And it's pretty clear to see that everyone kept my secrets. They didn't tell her about me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Leaving her was the hardest thing I've ever done. But she deserved more. I was nothing. A homeless wayward mess of a guy. She wanted to save me but I couldn't let her derail her future. Not for me... because I was a nobody.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I guess I made the right decision-because it sure didn't take her long to turn to another. To turn back to the kind of life she claimed to despise.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And now she wants to be a part of this investigation. Like I don't know what the hell I'm doing. If she thinks she's going to solve her sister's case all by herself she's got another thing coming.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because I'm the best there is.</span></p>