Stricken

Silver Rain 1 story

Summary

When I was five, I met the boy of my dreams. But I didn’t know how powerful dreams were until life ripped them away. “He took my world by storm with four simple words ‘I’m your new neighbor.’ I was only five at the time, but I couldn’t look away from the older boy staring at me through the hole in our back yard fence. In my mind, he was mine from that moment, but I knew that could never happen. When I was fifteen, I learned that things that should never happen can sweep in and rip your entire life to shreds. I lost everything. I lost him….” Six years after tragedy changed Cassie’s life forever, she continues to yearn for that one thing that will make her feel whole-the boy she was taken away from. The boy who had stood by her side and defended her at every turn. The boy whose shoulder she cried on when her parents died, after her sister committed suicide, during her testimony against her brother-in-law. With her past a heavy burden that sits on her chest, threatening to suffocate her every night, she somehow finds the strength to go back and face it. To finally go back and find the man who might make her heart beat again and ease the dead pain she feels inside. But six years can change people, and their relationship can never be the same.