*~*Love Notes – Anonymous to Thomasin – Hellbent Series by Penelope Douglas*~*

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For the upcoming Hellbent series, here’s a letter from one of the sons of one of the Fall Away couples to Thomasin Dietrich…

*In case you need a refresher, Thomasin (Tommy) is the daughter of Nate Dietrich and Piper from Bully (Fall Away Series). Remember they made and posted a lewd video of Jared and Tate, and Tommy and her parents are outcasts in the town because of it. The sons and daughters of the Fall Away couples aren’t particularly friendly with Tommy as a result of what her parents did in the first books.

But…one of them takes his resentment further than the others.

Enjoy!

I shouldn’t say it, but I’m going to, because it’ll feel good.

They hate seeing you in town.

I hate seeing you in town.

You should stay on the back roads, out of sight. Or better yet, move. Garbage belongs in Weston anyway.

I know you’re not to blame for the bad blood between our families. It just sucks. You’re just a reminder that your parents are foul and dirty, and they fucking moved on with their lives and had the nerve to give the world you. That they were allowed to forget—for even a minute—about the pain they’d caused while they played with you or held you or fed you or bought you candy. It’s not right. They never paid.

Everyone hates seeing you in town.

I hate seeing you in town.

I hate that I think about you.

Sometimes I can’t stop.

We were just kids, and I saw you skipping out of the store behind your dad and sucking on your new Ring Pop, and I knew exactly who you were and who your dad was, but you didn’t know who he was or what he’d done, because you were fucking skipping.

I hate the sight of you.

I hate that I think of you and that I drive the back roads that feel so wild and hidden and haunted, like there’s a world inside a world and maybe you feel like you’re in a prison there—alone—because there are no people or neighbors or friends.

Or maybe you feel free there too. You can breathe and think. No one’s watching you or expecting things from you. You don’t feel out of place or like you don’t fit in. It’s just the wind and some music and the smells of the Earth. It’s great.

And when I drive—and I try not to glance at the tree line but still always know exactly when I pass your house—I think maybe you shouldn’t get to breathe or think. Or relax or run and play. Maybe you should feel us watching you and never be allowed to forget who you are and what you come from, because we’ll never forget. We’ll always have to live with what your parents did.

Maybe you should too.

Maybe you shouldn’t be on the back roads, hiding out of sight, or dying your hair a new color like some little punk trying to prove how brave she is when she runs and hides every time we’re around.

I don’t like that you’re scared of us. In fact, I’m dying for the moment when you don’t make this so easy anymore.

Happy Valentine’s Day, Tommy Dietrich. I don’t feel good things toward you, but what I do feel is strong. Stronger than I feel for most things. That’s a compliment really.

P.S. I heard you’re working at Camp Blackhawk this summer. Good.

<3

Tommy and her (love)hate interest will appear in Falls Boys (Hellbent #1), coming March 21 to Kindle Unlimited, and they will continue to appear throughout the series. Find out which Fall Away son sent her the letter—Kade, Hunter, or James…

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Penelope Douglas is a writer and teacher in Las Vegas. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, she is the oldest of five children. Penelope attended the University of Northern Iowa, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, because her father told her to “just get the degree!” She then earned a Masters of Science in Education at Loyola University in New Orleans, because she hated Public Administration. One night, she got tipsy and told the bouncer at the bar where she worked that his son was hot, and three years later they were married. To the son, not the bouncer. They have spawn, but just one. A daughter named Aydan. Penelope loves sweets, the show Sons of Anarchy, and she shops at Target almost daily.