♥ Three fateful encounters....
♥ Two heart-breaking tragedies....
♥ One last chance to get it right.
From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo, comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny.
Over the course of five years, Mikki and Crush cross paths on three separate occasions. Their first encounter changes Mikki's life forever, but their second meeting leaves them both buried beneath the emotional wreckage of a violent attack. Mikki is left with more questions and grief than she can handle, while Crush is forced to forget the girl who saved his life.
Now nineteen years old, Mikki Gladstone has decided she's tired of the mind-numbing meds. She books a flight to Los Angeles to end her life far away from her loving, though often distant, family.
Twenty-one-year-old Crush has always channeled his blackest thoughts into his music, but he's never had great aspirations. He decides to fly to Los Angeles to record a demo of the only song he's never performed in public; a song he wrote for a girl he doesn't even know: Black Box. He has no expectations of fame and he's never felt like his life had any purpose... until he meets Mikki in Terminal B.
When Mikki and Crush cross paths for the third time in Terminal B, neither has any idea who the other person is; until they slowly piece together their history and realize that fate has more in store for them than just another love story.
♥ Two heart-breaking tragedies....
♥ One last chance to get it right.
From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo, comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny.
Over the course of five years, Mikki and Crush cross paths on three separate occasions. Their first encounter changes Mikki's life forever, but their second meeting leaves them both buried beneath the emotional wreckage of a violent attack. Mikki is left with more questions and grief than she can handle, while Crush is forced to forget the girl who saved his life.
Now nineteen years old, Mikki Gladstone has decided she's tired of the mind-numbing meds. She books a flight to Los Angeles to end her life far away from her loving, though often distant, family.
Twenty-one-year-old Crush has always channeled his blackest thoughts into his music, but he's never had great aspirations. He decides to fly to Los Angeles to record a demo of the only song he's never performed in public; a song he wrote for a girl he doesn't even know: Black Box. He has no expectations of fame and he's never felt like his life had any purpose... until he meets Mikki in Terminal B.
When Mikki and Crush cross paths for the third time in Terminal B, neither has any idea who the other person is; until they slowly piece together their history and realize that fate has more in store for them than just another love story.
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Black Box
Chapter 8
Staring
into Mikki’s green eyes, I swear I’m looking into my own. She’s hiding
something from me that I haven’t quite figured out yet, but I’m positive it has
to do with her trip to L.A. There has to be a reason someone as skittish as her
decided to have coffee with me rather than go home when her flight was
canceled. And there’s definitely a reason greater than curiosity for the
question she just asked me.
If it
weren’t her asking, this would be the point in our conversation where I begin
to suspect her of being an undercover cop or journalist. But it is Mikki. And
something about this girl tells me she’s not here to find out what happened in
a dark parking lot three years ago.
“That’s
a trick question,” I reply. “If I tell you I’ve never killed anyone, then
you’ll think I’m a good guy and you’ll stay, because even though it’s not a
very exciting answer, it means you’re safe. But if I tell you I’ve killed
someone, you may find it intriguing or frightening. Either way, intrigued or
scared, you’ll probably try to get the fuck away from me, and I don’t think I’m
ready for that.”
She
smiles as she looks down at her fingers, which she’s tapping on the surface of
the bar. “That’s a real suave way to dodge the question. It also sounds like
something a murderer would say.”
“Really?”
She
looks up and meets my gaze again. “Who did you kill?”
I pause
for a moment as I try to figure out where she’s going with this conversation.
Then it hits me. “Do you want to die?”
“What?”
she asks, shaking her head far too adamantly. “That’s … that’s a stupid
question.”
“Why is
it a stupid question?”
“Because,”
she snaps at me. “It’s just stupid. I don’t want to die.”
She
continues to look down at her hands, which are still trembling as she fidgets
with her silver thumb-ring. I get an urge to grab her hand again, to stop the
trembling and fidgeting, but I don’t.
“I’m
sorry. I guess that was kind of a stupid question. I was just wondering why a
pretty girl like you would hang out with me when you could be at home in your
warm bed with your pjs on. Or out with your friends … or your boyfriend.”
She
finally chuckles. “So, accusing me of wanting to die is your way of avoiding my
question or is it just a really messed-up way of asking me if I have a
boyfriend?”
“It’s
just me being a total dick. And … do you have a boyfriend?”
“No.”
She looks up and fixes me with a steely glare. “Most guys don’t appreciate a
girl who’s crazy and also doesn’t put out.”
I’m not quite sure how to respond to this statement. It’s probably best
to change the subject or reach for a joke. “Yeah, I know how you feel. Most
girls don’t appreciate a guy who can cite Shakespeare and won’t put out.
Actually, I think that’s a line from Macbeth.”
Her
glare melts into a reluctant smile. “You’re not a total dick.”
“Still
not putting out.”
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cassia Leo grew up in California and
has lived in three different countries. She loves to travel and her dream is to
one day score a record deal based on her awesome shower singing skills. She is
the author of the Shattered Hearts series (Relentless,
Pieces of You, Bring Me Home, Abandon) and the Luke and Chase series.
Website: http://cassialeo.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authorcassialeo
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Black box. Well well. I'm not too sure how I feel about this book. Well I know how I feel, but I'm not sure how I should rate it. Its extremely emotional and powerful. Let me tell you where I stand. On one hand I love that fate intertwined their lives and they ended up savings each other more than once throughout their lives. I really liked that they loved each other so deeply because of the darkness they have pulled each other out of. I also love that once they found each other, they didn't want to let go. I love that he saved her this time. I love that what she went through saved him, but in turn he really did save her. I loved that. There was just something for me on this book that was hard to connect to. I don't know what it was. It could have been the topic, her need to commit suicide. I don't know. I just hard a hard time with something. But you know what did help me get through it, what really made this story beautiful despite the sadness? Their love. Their story. The Black Box. The heartbreak. The fear that their love story was over and I didn't want it to be. It was a good book. It's an extremely emotional book that will pull at your heart at every turn. I still recommend it.
I give it 3.5/4 hearts
I give it 3.5/4 hearts
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