*~*Love Note: Ryan to Jackie – The Marriage Pact by Mara White & K. Larsen*~*
Ryan Walters and Jackie Bowen became instantaneous friends during their wild and free years of college. He, the rugged, yet all American football player from a stable family fell hard for Jackie, the exuberant, spontaneous girl from a broken home who lived and loved life to the fullest. Too young to commit and wary of damaging the unique bond they shared, the friends to lovers make a pact promising to find one another again at the age of thirty and marry—if not already committed.
Years apart, after much growth and change, the two best friends seek one another out. In college, neither Jackie or Ryan could possibly know that every relationship to come would fall short of the one they’d shared together all those years ago.
When the two meet again, love and chemistry soar beyond their wildest dreams and they agree to make good on their promise. But a second chance at love can be fickle and fleeting.
The Marriage Pact is a story about letting go and loving with your whole heart no matter the circumstance—or how much it hurts.
The Marriage Pact, the second book in The Viral Series following Missed Connection, by romance authors K. Larsen and Mara White is based on a heartbreaking viral Reddit post.
OMG I need this book like right now!
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Jack,
It’s so good to hear from you. So. Good. I never wanted to worry because you’ve always been strong. You’re a rock, Jackie and sometimes it’s hard to get through to the soft part. I’d tell myself you were strong and try to drown out the doubt. But, God, it creeped in and I worried a lot. Hashed everything out in my mind wondering if I’d done right by giving you the space that you asked for. I know the human heart is a muscle even though we never think of it that way. But, I swear to you, I could feel mine relax when I found out that you were alive and okay.
Not that I know much about grieving and loss, but I think it’s normal to still take it hard. It was a huge tragedy. Just a monumental loss. I’m sorry that it happened to you and I’m sorry that your father hasn’t been there like you needed him to be. I also can’t help but kick myself in the ass for not pushing you harder. I wanted to be there for you, Jackie. That more than anything else.
I think about pumpkins too. Your smile and the sound of your laugh. About how it felt to wake up next to you in the morning. Your chronically cold feet against my calves and the culprit of those frozen feet–your damn flip flops. You in my football jersey and not much else. I think about making love stranded in a white-out blizzard, holding you when you’d cry, and the first moment I laid eyes on you cursing out strangers who were holding up the line. The list goes on and I could easily come up with a hundred thoughts that spark a memory of you. All of them good and true and more real to me than the recent ones I’ve made. I’m not sure what that says about me or even about you, but I do know one thing without a doubt; I truly miss you.
Ryan
Mara White is a contemporary romance and erotica writer who laces forbidden love stories with hard issues, such as race, gender and inequality. She holds an Ivy League degree but has also worked in more strip clubs than even she can remember. She is not a former Mexican telenovela star contrary to what the tabloids might say, but she is a former ballerina and will always remain one in her heart. She lives in NYC with her husband and two children and yes, when she’s not writing you can find her on the playground.
You talk. I listen. You move. I watch. You don’t know I exist, but I learn from watching you. I absorb the minute details you emit. I use them. I write. I take the smallest sliver from you, about you and I piece it into a character. It takes so many little slivers to create a whole, complete being. I watch people. I hear words, individual words from many different conversations floating around. I stockpile them away. I rearrange them into to something else. Nothing goes to waste. There is a little of each one of you in each person I create. You are all of them and they are all of you. Good combined with bad. Kind mixed in with evil. All the little slivers compound on each other creating something bigger. That is how my writing works.
Why I may or may not be interesting…
I am an avid reader, coffee drinker, and chocolate eater who loves writing.
If you love suspense and romance and a good read you’ve come to the right spot! I may mess with your head a bit in the process. Enjoy!
I have a weird addiction to goat cheese and chocolate martinis, not together though.
I adore my dog.
He is the most awesome snuggledoo in the history of dogs.
Seriously.
I hate dirty dishes.
I like sarcasm and funny people.
I should probably be running right now… because of the goat cheese….and stuff.
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