*~*Love Notes: Julian to Stephanie – What You Left Behind by Len Webster*~*
One chance meeting on a white beach in Thailand would set their story in stone.
Eighteen and fresh out of high school, Stevie Appleton is about to embark on a form of freedom she has never known. When offered the chance to go to Thailand to celebrate the end of high school, she takes it. What she doesn’t know is that saying yes would lead to meeting him.
Having just finished his Bachelor, Julian Moors can’t wait to party away the last three years of university. All he wants from his holiday in Thailand is to relax on the beach, drink and have the time of his life. However, the moment his eyes land on the beautiful blonde reading on the beach, he knows he can’t stay away. All his other wants no longer matter. What does matter is getting to know the girl behind the mockingbird.
Enter Stevie and Julian’s memory vault.
No names. No past. Just right now.
Seven days to fall in love.
Seven days until their end.
Seven days until they both wake up heartbroken.And four more years until they meet again.
Title: What You Left Behind (Thirty-Eight Series Book #3)
Author: Len Webster
Genre: Contemporary Romance
No amount of white sand or distance could bury their past.
Some things are just never meant to be forgotten.
When Julian Moors returned from Thailand he left behind all his belongings, his father and only brother in Melbourne and moved to Sydney. One girl shattered his world and left him with more questions than answers.
Behind the persona, Stevie Appleton tries to outrun her past. Nightmares and memories have started to collide, putting her future and her heart at risk. No one can know the secrets she tries to keep locked away, even if it means betraying the people she loves the most.
Everyone has a story but not everyone has a past quite like Stevie and Julian.
When they meet years later, don’t expect a happy ending. The past holds skeletons and not even these skeletons can be buried.
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Julian’s Note is SO amazing!!!
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Dear Stephanie,
I just wanted I apologise for the many doggie marathons we went to. You pretended to enjoy yourself when we all know that you didn’t pretend at all. Blondie, you loved the hot dogs out of those doggie marathons. Had we not gone to those marathons we would have never found our son. Well, not our son, but our son’s breed. Do you remember when we went to the pound and I yelled out, “I’m here for the sausage!” when we were adopting our dachshund? To reference your favourite movie, Girls’ Trip, we became sausage connoisseurs the day we adopted Monsieur Saucisse Appleton Moors. I can already tell you’re rolling your eyes at me. Fine, Sage the sausage dog because you thought his full name was a mouthful. But guess what, I call him ‘Monsieur Saucisse’ all the time!
Coming home to you and Sage every night is my favourite part of my day. Seeing his short black and brown legs run down the hall to me makes me smile ridiculously. But when I see you walking right behind him, God, Blondie, my heart feels so damn full.
You make it feel like that every single day of my life.
But I’m not here to tell you what you already know. I’ve written you this letter because it’s Valentine’s Day. And Valentine’s Day is a special day for us. It was the day I wrote you your first Valentine and I made your life. It still blows my mind that no boy ever wanted you as their Valentine. They were such idiots because I think you’re the best goddamn Valentine around. So I’m happy that another year has passed where I can write you a letter.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Blondie.
Our very first Valentine’s Day, I asked you to someday marry me.
Well, Blondie, it’s been years since that first note.
And well, someday has reached us.
I think we finally have it right.
We’re happy.
Hell, my brother is happy and we have to surpass him.
Robert Moors is not allowed to be happier than us, Blondie.
It’s in the rule book.
But I also know that being legally married scares you because your parents got divorced. But you can’t be bitter about them being divorced because you got your brother, Jarred, out of your father remarrying. And well, we’re never going to get divorced. We’re not bad apples, Apple-ton! We’re gonna make it. I know it.
So I’m going to do you a favour.
I’m going to compromise.
How about we have a spiritual wedding?
We won’t make it legal.
We’ll do all the wedding stuff our way.
Sage can be our ring boy.
And plus, Ally will be your sister-in-law.
So you’re winning by being spiritually married to me.
I mean, you moan “Oh, God,” when we make love, so you’re pretty spiritual, Blondie.
I bet you’re groaning and saying I’m an idiot right now.
Just wanted to make my argument valid.
Stephanie, someday is here.
Give this hopeful man a shot at calling you his wife.
That way we never have to use the ‘D’ word.
But I know, from the bottom of my heart, that we never will.
I love you, Stephanie Élise Appleton.
I want nothing more than to be your husband.
I want someday right now.
I want you as my wife.
But I’ll wait.
Wait until the very day you’re ready.
I’ve loved every minute and every day of my life with you and Sage, and I don’t ever want to be without you both.
So when you’ve reached someday, let me know.
When you want awesome children and other lame stuff because you’re my all-in, let me know.
You are and always will be my all-in.
Oh, and if you didn’t get what I’m saying, I’m no longer not-proposing anymore.
I’m spiritually proposing.
Stephanie Élise Appleton, will you someday spiritually marry me?
When you’re ready, just say:
Oui.
I love you endlessly.
Your man of spirituality,
Julian.
Len Webster is a romance-loving Melburnian with dreams of finding her version of ‘The One.’ But until that moment happens, she writes. Having just completed her BBusCom from Monash University, Len is now busy writing her next romance about how a boy met a girl, and how they fell completely and hopelessly in love.
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