Meet Till & Eliza in Aly Martinez’s newest fighter
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Excerpt
FIGHTING SILENCE
"That wasn't yours to take away," he exploded into
the otherwise silent night. His words echoed off the surrounding buildings,
each wave slicing me to the quick all over again. "That was our place. Not
yours." His voice cracked right alongside my heart.
"Yeah, well, there was a lot of stuff that wasn't yours
to take either." I held his gaze, desperately trying to be strong, but as
his eyes grew wide, I whimpered.
His long legs strode forward, stopping only inches away from
me. He was crowding me, but he still leaned in closer to my face. "There
is nothing in this world that was ever more mine than you," he stated.
Though it was the absolute truth, I wished with all my heart that it were a
lie.
"Till," I cried, swiping the tears from my eyes.
"Why!" he shouted, causing his muscles to tense
under the force. "Goddamn it! I needed that place."
Porch lights flashed on from the surrounding apartments,
illuminating not only the dark but also my rage.
I shoved my hands into his chest. "What about what I
needed? You left! I waited in that fucking apartment for weeks."
He didn't budge, but my bare feet slipped, sending me toward
the ground. Impossibly fast, Till's hand snaked out and caught my arm. I didn't
let his chivalrous gesture douse my fire. I had six months’ worth of words to
say to the man I was irrevocably in love with.
"You took what you wanted. Then you left me."
"Doodle," he whispered.
I had been perilously close to the edge of insanity, and
with one single word, he’d pushed me over.
I lost it completely.
Pounding my fists against his chest, I screamed at the top
of my lungs, "It's Eliza! My name is fucking Eliza! Not Doodle!" I
spun to march away, but Till's arms folded around me, lifting me off my feet to
restrain me.
I was miniscule compared to him. There was no use in
fighting, but I still kicked my legs, irrationally desperate to get away from
him—but only because I knew I couldn't keep him for forever.
"Stop it!" he growled into my ear. "I know
your Goddamn name—probably better than I know my own."
Sound is an abstract concept for most people. We spend our
lives blocking out the static in order to focus on what we believe is
important. But what if, when the clarity fades into silence, it's the obscure
background noise that you would give anything to hold on to?
I've always been a
fighter. With parents who barely managed to stay out of jail and two little
brothers who narrowly avoided foster care, I became skilled at dodging the
punches life threw at me. Growing up, I didn’t have anything I could call my own,
but from the moment I met Eliza Reynolds, she was always mine. I became utterly addicted to her and the
escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she had
boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn't a single night that I didn’t
hear her voice.
You see, meeting the
love of my life at age thirteen was never part of my plan. However, neither was
gradually going deaf at the age of twenty-one.
They both happened
anyway.
Now, I'm on the ropes
during the toughest battles of my life.
Fighting for my career.
Fighting the impending silence.
Fighting for her.
Every night, just
before falling asleep, she sighs as a final conscious breath leaves her.
I think that's the
sound I'll miss the most.
4Stars
I love a good fighter book, and this is a good one. This is the first book, by this author, that
I have read, I will be reading more from her when I get the chance.
What happens when you fall in love at 13 years old? This is Till and Eliza's story.
Eliza hasn't had the best life. Parents that don't care, she would escape to
a condemned apartment to draw. One night
a boy shows up by coming in through the window.
That boy is Till.
Till also hasn't had a great life. He has losers for parents. He takes care of his two younger
brothers. He keeps them safe and out of
the system. As soon as he is able to, he
works 2 jobs to keep them feed and a roof over their head. His dad is in prison and his mom took
off. So the boys end up being his.
Seeing a flier for boxing lessons, saved him. So did always having Eliza, or his Doodle, as
he calls her.
But there is a problem, well, a couple. His is slowly going deaf and he is scared of
the next step with Eliza, not because the love isn't there, it is, from both of
them, but because he is afraid to lose her.
""But even if all that was suddenly gone, I would
still be madly in love with you. I
wanted to spend forever with you at thirteen.
Nothing has or ever will change that.
Eliza, I love you. And I am
unquestionably serious about spending the rest of my life with you."
They were really
good words.
But Till Page was
saying them...to me.
They were perfect
words."
Till is an amazing guys.
He puts everyone before himself.
I really need to know about Flint though, but gotta wait
until his book.
About the Author:
Aly Martinez
After some encouragement from her friends, Aly decided to
add “Author” to her ever-growing list of job titles. Five books later, she
shows no signs of slowing. So grab a glass of Chardonnay, or a bottle if you’re
hanging out with Aly, and join her aboard the crazy train she calls life.
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