Title: We Are Us
Author: Tara Leigh
Release Date: February 27, 2020
Genre: Contemporary Romance
I fell in love with a beautiful, broken boy.
His whispered words of love were the sweetest of lies.
He gave me his heart and destroyed mine.
I am his.
I fell in love with the beautiful man who broke me.
His boldly spoken vow was the cruelest of cages.
He gave me his name and destroyed my soul.
He is mine.
The boy I once loved is now a man.
The man I once loved is now gone.
We are us.
I have been called many things.
Victim. Survivor. Daughter. Sister. Wife.
Now I am called something else.
Murderer.
Believe it or not, this is our love story.
Wow…this is some note from Gavin!
Keep reading to see the full Love Note!
Dear Poppy,
I already know I’ll never send this letter to you. Frankly, I don’t know why I’m bothering to write it.
You’re gone.
Actually— no. That’s not true. I know exactly where you are.
You’re not gone. But you might as well be.
It’s my fault. All of this is my fault. You’re there and I’m here.
You’re with him and I’m…
I’m fucking miserable.
Happy Valentine’s Day, right? If I even thought for one second that you—
No. I’m not going there.
Did you wake up to roses and chocolate and champagne this morning? Is that what you want now? Does all that pretentious shit make you happy?
Fuck that. What I really want to know is… Does he make you happy?
I am his and he is mine and we are us. You said that. Those are your words, remember?
What the hell happened to us, Poppy?
We’re not anything now, are we?
And you know what—not ALL of that is my fault. Some. Most, even.
So, yeah, I guess I understand why you kicked me out of your apartment, out of your life.
But I don’t understand why you walked down an aisle to him. Why you have his name now, not mine.
And I’ll never, ever, understand what happened to us.
Happy Fucking Valentine’s Day, Poppy.
Someday you’ll be mine again.
I’m sure of it. And, deep down, you are too.
~Gavin
Tara Leigh is a multi-published author of steamy contemporary romance. A former banker on Wall Street, she graduated from Washington University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, but she much prefers spending her days with fictional boyfriends than analyzing financial spreadsheets. Tara currently lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut with her husband, children, and fur-baby, Pixie. She is represented by Jessica Alvarez, of Bookends Literary Agency.
