Does love conquer all or has
it covered Kay’s eyes to what really is? After the clean up Kay begins to
wonder about the relationship. Is Nate really who he say’s he is and can he
change? But when promise after promise is broken, Kay begins to loose her edge.
Soon Nate will make a big
mistake that could cost her her career. Changes and hard decisions have to be
made. Nate may be the love of her life, the man who loves her just the way she
is but is that really enough, is that reason for her to stay? Is it enough for
her to cling on to? It will take time and important decisions to find out if
Kay and Nate have a future together.
Excerpt
Kay
rolled to the left of the bed and the cold air hit her. She sat up fast her
heart pounding suddenly. Had it been a dream or had Nate spent the night. It
was still dark outside, the green lights from the alarm clock screamed 4.15am.
Only an hour left before she had to get up and get ready for her day. There was
a tight feeling in her stomach, the feeling told her what she didn’t want to
know.
Kay
fiddled for the side lamp and noticed Nate’s shoes on the floor. So it hadn’t
been a dream, he was somewhere in her house. The fear wrapped around her like a
python taking away her ability to breathe properly. She pushed back the covers
and stepped onto the ground. The fear increased the moment she took steps
towards the door.
There
was darkness in the hall but there was a faint light that came from downstairs.
The stairs creaked as she slowly made her way downstairs.
‘Nate?’
she whispered as she got to the entrance of the living room. ‘Nate?’ She turned
the switch so that the light flooded the room a lot more.
Nate
was spread out across the couch, with one leg on the ground. His arms were
crossed against his chest. Her eyes darted towards the table and she saw the
twenty pound note rolled up like a pencil. Tears gathered in her eyes when she
realised what she’d feared. He’d just taken some cocaine. Why didn’t she learn
her lesson?
Her
feet couldn’t move, they felt glued to the ground by the weight of the grief. It
was a while before one foot stepped in front of the other and finally reached
Nate. Kay gazed down at him, her stomach in knots her heart torn apart. How
could she love someone so much and at the same time feel so much hurt? It would
be easy from someone looking in, at one point she was that woman. The woman
yelling from behind the scenes to dump that man, he’s no good. But here she was
wrestling with herself; wrestling with the truth that she had fallen to become
a victim of emotion. The man who lay on the couch had been the man who believed
in her, was she about to toss him aside like he didn’t matter. Too many times
Kay had burnt bridges before she’d had time to dig deeper, to realise that
humans were not perfect and that many times over they made mistakes. Not too
long ago Kay had almost starved herself to death, and it had almost become an
addiction, equally destructive as Nate’s cocaine habit. How was it okay for her
and not for him? Kay wrestled with her mind, with her emotions and with her
conscious and failed to realise something until she took a closer look at Nate.
‘Nate?’
His bottom lip looked a little blue. ‘Nate!’ she shook him hard.
Nate’s
body didn’t move an inch.
‘Nate
please! Oh god!’
For
a moment panic set in, Kay paced, what was she going to do? Her mind spun with
many questions. Was he dead?
‘Oh
god Nate!’
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