Title: Still Human (Just Human #2)
Author: Kerry Heavens
Genre: Adult Contemporary
Expected Release: October 2013
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Synopsis
Danny and Liv are back...
Danny loves Liv. He knows he loves her more than she loves him because she ran without a word when she saw their future mapped out before her. He knows he will never love anyone like he loved her and this time he doesn’t think he can move on.
Liv loves Danny. She knows she loves him more than he loves her because he broke her heart in the worst possible way, right when things were falling into place. She knows she will never love anyone like she loves him and this time she doesn’t think she can move on.
They needed a second chance because they just weren’t ready for their first, but when events changed everything between them, they discovered they were just human after all. Now Liv and Danny have to find a way to survive being hurt by each other.
They doubted, they underestimated and they did believe the worst, but only because they were too young the first time and too vulnerable the second time. But now they have changed and if they are not the same, surely things can only turn out differently?
About the Author: Kerry Heavens
Terrible wife
Mediocre mother
Appalling housewife
Fashion graduate
Wedding coordinator
Sex toy salesperson
Shop manager
Designer
Font collector
Romance addict
Fancier of nice men
Ok, fancier of almost all men
Awesome cupcake baker
Incessant singer
Film buff
Friend
Writer
Website: http://www.kerryheavens.com
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Prologue
Liv
“Please
Liv, you have to eat something,” begs Max.
I tighten
the covers around me. I’m not hungry, but I keep quiet. If I speak, even about
food, he’ll think I’m ready to talk. There’s nothing else to say. I poured it
all out when I got home and there’s nothing left. He stayed with me all night,
held me tight while I cried and now he is fussing around. He wanted to call
everyone to tell them I was safe. But I warned him not to call Danny. I said he
could let Mum know I was okay but that was it. No details and under no
circumstances were any of them to make any contact with Danny either. I can
just imagine Mum and Grace as vigilantes and, while I want him to hurt, he
isn’t worth it.
“I’m
going down to check on things, I’ll bring you something up anyway.” He says
quietly. I don’t respond.
In the
silence of my flat, my ears ring. I hate silence, I always have and without
thinking I get out of bed, wrapping myself in a blanket, and sit in front of
the TV. I find a film on a movie channel I’ve seen before and sit and ignore
it. It’s better than the deafening silence. Now that I’m upright, I ponder what
to do next. I know I have to pull myself together today, Connie is flying home.
Ugh! She won’t let me just wallow, she’ll make me talk. I need to get up,
shower and go to work. Keeping busy is my only option, it'll keep people off my
back.
As I
adjust the temperature of the shower, I examine my options. I don't really have
any. It's not like life was going well before I allowed Danny to walk in and screw
me over. I have to just try my hardest to get back to normal as quickly as
possible. I should have trusted my instincts. Danny was just human after all,
hurting me was almost inevitable. Sadly, I knew that but the naive teenager in
me just got sucked in for old time’s sake. I knew this would happen, I was
safer with Mark, at least I could take that on the chin.
Max is
waiting when I come out of the bedroom dressed for work.
“I brought
you some coffee and…” He starts as he turns to me. His face falls as he sees
me. “Liv, you’re not going to work?”
I walk
across to where he is sitting and pick up my coffee. Taking a sip, I smile a
tiny smile and sit beside him.
“What
should I do then?” I ask softly.
“We have
it all covered downstairs. You need to sort your head out.”
“I’m not
going to do that here, trust me. I need the distraction.” I put my hand on his
knee. “Thank you for looking after me, but I have to get back down there before
I drive myself insane.”
He sighs.
“Well, you aren’t going anywhere until you eat something.” He holds up a muffin
on a plate.
I smile
sweetly and dutifully take the muffin. Then, with some physical effort, I force
some down. I may as well start now, Connie will be much harder to deal with.
Satisfied,
Max sits back and seems to relax slightly. I can hear his cogs turning though
and I know he wants to talk. So when he parts his lips to say whatever it is I
know I don’t want to hear, I say “I don’t want to talk about it.” Then, getting
to my feet, I take the coffee and the muffin and go to the door.
“Coming?”
I ask innocently as I head down to the diner.
Danny
Jen
places a coffee on my nightstand and sits on the edge of the bed. “If they know
any more, they’re not saying,” she says softly.
She was
just on the phone with Liv’s sister, trying to get more information. But I know
all I need to know. They found the note last night when they got back; it said
she was going home.
It didn’t
say why, but I know.
She
doesn’t love me.
She found
out I was going to propose and she ran.
Again.
Last
night after the dust settled, Jen found the ring bag screwed up in the trash.
I’d left it out on the counter when I went to go meet Liv at the party and it
doesn’t take a genius to see what happened. Liv came back just after I left,
saw the bag, figured it out, freaked and then packed her things and left.
Scott and
Jen left me alone last night, but only after I insisted. Jen came back first
thing this morning though, to make sure I was okay. She wants me to get up and
go over to Grace’s to find out what they know, but I don’t want to hear it. I
can’t face their pity and I’m too angry to see Connie. This is all her fault.
Liv and I were getting on with our lives quite happily until she interfered.
Now I’m left with that old open wound and I have to start getting over her
again. Except this time, I don’t think I can.
“Danny,
come on, drink your coffee,” Jen urges. Reluctantly, I sit up and take a sip.
“Thanks,”
I say distantly.
“So what
are you going to do now?”
“Nothing,”
I tell her.
She
watches me as I drink, until I can’t take it any longer. I throw the covers off
and get up.
“Are you
going over there?” she asks hopefully.
I turn
and see her optimistic face. “No,” I say firmly. “I have unpacking to do.”
“Danny!
You can’t just give up.”
“Why
not?” I scoff. “She has.”
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