All About You
Joanna Mazurkiewicz
New Adult Romance
Date Published: March 7, 2014
I start hating Oliver just after his older brother Christian’s death. I drag him down a road of humiliation and pain to try to cope with what his brother did to me.
A few months after Christian’s passing, Oliver leaves town, and for the next two years, he is absent from my life. The demons claw their way back in, and I must learn to live with the secret that has destroyed me.
Now I’m starting a new life, away from Gargle and away from my past, but everything crashes when I see Oliver the first day at university. It’s clear that many things have changed since we’ve been apart. Now he is captain of the rugby team and the most popular bloke on campus.
Then he makes a bet and gives me an ultimatum: I leave Braxton forever and start somewhere else, or I stay and play his game… because he’s never forgotten that it was me who ruined his life two years ago.
Excerpt:
We cross the path
walking towards the entrance. I switch my bag, as my arm starts to ache, and
drag my main suitcase behind me. We both notice the group of students throwing
the rugby ball to each other outside on the grass. Dora is already playing with
her hair, pretending that she is struggling with her luggage, probably hoping
that any of those blokes would give her a hand. I roll my eyes, ignoring her
moans, and move ahead. For a brief moment I feel someone’s eyes on me, so I
stop and turn around.
One of the guys
who was throwing the ball is staring directly at me. His eyes squeeze shut and
a fire spreads over my spine. He seems familiar, but I shake my head, knowing
that I don’t know anyone in Braxton and the sudden blaze of heat is just in my
imagination. Dora manages to get the attention of one of the guys and they
start chatting away. This is just so typical of her.
“Pass the ball,
Jacob,” someone shouts behind me. But I ignore that voice, which sounds so
familiar, heating up the blood that runs through my body. I think about back
home. Mum asked me to call her when we reach Braxton just to make sure that we
arrived safely.
Then something
hits me hard in the back of the head and I let go a loud “Owww!” and turn
swiftly around. I spot the rugby ball on the grass and reach out to massage my
head. I narrow my eyes, spotting the same guy who was staring at me a few
second ago. He is smirking.
“What’s your
problem?” I ask, my jaw tense with anger.
He doesn’t look
sorry at all that he hit me with the ball. He is tall and muscular. His dark
hair is cut close to his scalp. For some reason the “special forces” haircut
suits him. He is too far ahead so I can’t see the color of his eyes, but
his gaze is pulling me to him like he is made of a magnet. Jeans hang low on
his hips and his white T-shirt is dirty, probably from rolling on the grass. I
glance back at his friends who are staring at me, startled. Something isn’t
right here—he obviously wanted to hit me on purpose.
“Well, who have
we got here? Isn’t it the one and only, India Gretel?” he says loudly, like he
wants to make sure that everyone hears him.
“Do I know you?”
I ask with impatience, eyeing him from head to toe. A large whacky grin appears
on his handsome face. Something in his eyes tells me that we already met. His
eyes harden on me as he picks up the ball and closes the gap between us. He has
a wide jaw and full beautiful lips.
“Don’t fucking
tell me that you forgot about me already, Indi?” he asks, smirking. “Boys, let
me introduce the biggest bitch that ever stepped in Braxton.”
I blink rapidly,
staring at him, digging all my memories out or anything that could tell me if
I’ve seen him before, but I get nothing.
“Oliver, who the
hell is that?” asks one of the guys walking up towards him. Dora probably
notices my little show because she approaches me, looking equally
confused.
“India, who is
that douchebag?” she asks, frowning.
Oliver. That name
rolls in my head like a snooker ball. It curls my toes and increases my
heartbeat. It’s like a poison that crawls into my pores and wrecks my body. His
name brings on both good and bad within me. It’s the name that I have been
trying to forget for the past two years.
Author Bio:
Joanna Mazurkiewicz was born in Poland. She moved to United Kingdom when she was only nineteen and just finished high school. She had aspired to be a writer upon completion of the Harry Potter series but also enjoyed reading books like ‘Gone with the Wind’, ’Animal Farm’ and ‘The doll’. She graduated from Swansea University with a bachelor degree in American Studies. While studying in the UK she made a decision to start writing fiction in English.
The “Whispers of the Sprite” is her first debut novel and she is currently working on other projects. Joanna lives in Cowbridge, a small town in South Wales near Cardiff with her boyfriend Bruce. She enjoys cycling around Welsh countryside some of which has become the settings in her first series.
The “Whispers of the Sprite” is her first debut novel and she is currently working on other projects. Joanna lives in Cowbridge, a small town in South Wales near Cardiff with her boyfriend Bruce. She enjoys cycling around Welsh countryside some of which has become the settings in her first series.
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