Welcome to another WRITER WEDNESDAY. This week, I would like to introduce you to the amazing ADRIENNE THOMPSON and her latest release "YOUR LOVE IS KING."
Divorced nurse and single mom, Marli Meadows, finds
herself stuck in a rut. She’s tired of her life and decides to leave it behind
and embark on a search for change. What she finds instead, is love.
Excerpt:
I
rolled over in the bed after a short nap, opened my eyes, and nearly jumped out
of my skin. For a brief moment, I’d forgotten that Darius was lying next to me.
The sight of him lying there asleep with his mouth wide open startled me.
I
eyed him with disgust as I tried to ease out of bed undetected. I slid and slid
until my feet finally reached the floor, then I tiptoed through the cluttered
efficiency apartment into the bathroom. I peered into the smudged mirror and
wondered to myself, What are you doing,
Marli Meadows? Why are you here with him? I shook my head as if the mere
action could erase my relationship with Darius Cotton right out of my life.
I
squatted over the toilet and relieved myself, afraid to sit on the seat.
Knowing Darius, there was no telling how many other butts had been on that
seat. I turned the water in the faucet on to a slow trickle, still not wanting
to awaken Darius, and washed my hands. I dried them with some toilet paper and
then quickly pulled my underwear and work uniform back on and slowly opened the
creaky bathroom door.
I
exited the bathroom and found Darius sitting on the side of the bed, lighting
up a blunt. Dang! I thought, if I don’t get out of here quick, I’ll be
smelling just like that stuff and probably get a contact high. It’d be my luck
for them to pop up with a random drug test at work and that crap’ll show up.
“You
leaving, baby?” he grunted between drags. He rubbed his hand across his bare
chest and stretched. I eyed his nakedness as I walked back into the room.
“Yeah,
it’s already eleven. I gotta go home and get some rest for work tonight,” I
answered as I gathered up my purse and slipped on my shoes.
With
a lopsided grin on his face, he revealed two rows of shiny gold teeth and said,
“Yeah, cause you know if you stay here you gon’ have to put in some more work,
huh?”
Ugh,
I thought. “Yeah, well, I’ll talk to you later, Darius.”
“A’ight,
come give me a kiss, boo.”
I
swallowed hard. I know this sounds strange considering the fact that I’d just
had sex with him, but the thought of kissing him really didn’t appeal to me. It
took all I had in me to walk over to him, bend over, and plant a kiss on his
dark lips.
He
swatted my butt. “A’ight girl, I’ll holla at you later. Don’t work too hard
tonight.”
I
nodded. “I won’t. Bye, Darius.”
“Bye,
Mar-lay.”
I
shook my head as I closed the door behind me. We’d been “seeing” each other for
nearly two years, and he still mispronounced my name. Well, it was either that
or he was just so country that it sounded
like he was mispronouncing it. Whichever
was the case, it was irritating.
I
walked down the steep stairs from Darius’s apartment out onto the parking
lot. I unlocked and then climbed into my
Toyota Camry which was parked right next to Darius’s souped-up Chevy Caprice. I
rolled my eyes at the repeated Louis Vuitton logos covering his car. I backed
out of my space and glanced at his license plate which read, SMOKONE. I sighed
as I pulled off the lot.
Kindle:
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Nook:
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Kobo:
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Amazon
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Author Bio:
Adrienne
Thompson has worn many titles in her lifetime–from teenage mother to teenage
wife to divorcee to registered nurse to author. This mother of two young adults
and one teenager currently resides in Arkansas with her daughter where she
writes and publishes her stories full time.
You
can connect with her on:
Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/ahthompsn/
Thanks so much!!
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