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Blurb
I’d like to tell you that I’m ok.
That the meaningless sex with countless women has somehow
numbed the pain. That it’s deciphered the constant confusion in my head. Eased
the self-hatred that sinks into my gut every time I look in the mirror.
I’d like to tell you that time heals all wounds.
That we evolve and grow into well-adjusted, stable adults,
set on a path to right the world’s wrongs. That we are not our past…we are not
our pain.
I want to tell you all those things. Hell, I want to believe
all those things. But I’d be lying. I’m good at that. Living a lie is the only
way I truly know how to survive.
But the day I saw her, I stopped surviving. I stopped
existing. And for the first time in 24 years, I started living.
She brought me back to life. Set me free and sent my soul
soaring. Made this useless shell of a man feel like…something. Something whole
and real and good.
She saved me.
Although she believes I wasn’t even worth saving.
This story
chronicles the journey of Dominic Trevino, a character from Fear of Falling. However, it can be read as a standalone.
Excerpt
I approached her slowly, letting my
eyes take in her soft, feminine curves. That’s what I loved the most about
women—their softness, their delicateness. It made them appear breakable, just
like me. And it made me appreciate that vulnerability, in hopes that someone
could—and would—one day, appreciate mine.
That’s why even though I never
offered more than a few hours of toe-curling pleasure, I assured each second
was spent tending to their sexual desires and making them feel treasured. Just
because I was a whore, it didn’t make me callous or uncaring. If anything, it
made me more aware of my humanity.
I pushed it all away, trading my
own hang-ups and idiosyncrasies for the mental numbness that sex could provide
and did what I do best: Fuck. I was good at this part—touching, kissing,
licking. And when we were both ready—too ravenous with desire to consider my
aversions—I drove into her slowly, all the way to the hilt. Until her body
completely covered mine and soothed the ache of loneliness with wet warmth.
This was the feeling I had been chasing since I was just a child, barely a man.
That sweet oblivion that only mindless sex could provide. I was made whole by
emptying myself into another, and for the barest of moments, I became separate
from my pain and anger. I became the type of man that could look himself in the
mirror and not see the horror of his past standing behind him, its razor sharp
claws cutting into the skin of his shoulders while it smiled in that sinister
way that still made my skin crawl.
I had seen that malevolence in my
dreams every day since as long as I could remember. Sometimes it was in the
form of a smile, a laugh. Sometimes it wore the face of ecstasy and passion.
But it was always terrifying.
I lay in bed, staring up at the
ceiling long after Alyssa had passed out in blissful exhaustion. She came
twice, once by my tongue, the other with her ankles on my shoulders. She was a
screamer, and I kept wondering if Angel would bust in here, wondering if I was
fucking or killing the girl. Then, if Alyssa was up for it, she’d join, like
she had just this past weekend with Cherri. It wasn’t that we wanted each other
in that way—oh hell no. We were just better…together. It made it even easier to
get out of our heads and lost in the movement of our bodies.
It was co-dependent like a
motherfucker. And unhealthy. And unconventional. But it was all we knew.
Fear of Falling (A Fearless Novel)
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About the Author
S.L. Jennings is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling
author of contemporary and paranormal romance, reality TV junkie, obsessive
coffee drinker and collector of crazy.
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