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Wreck (Gentry Generations)
Author: Cora Brent


WRECK

(A Gentry Story)

By Cora Brent

 

 

THOMAS

Not too long ago my future was all mapped out.

Then two brutal swings of a steel bat wielded by a maniac wrecked my world.

The adrenaline high I used to get from pitching a perfect game is gone.

The major league dreams I counted on have vanished.

And the peace of mind I took for granted is shattered.

The thrills I seek out now are self-destructive.

I know this and I can’t stop.

What I didn’t expect is for my downward spiral to be interrupted by a shy beauty with a messy past.

Gracie and I are very different. And yet we’re tragically alike.

I can prove to her that we’re supposed to be together.

All she has to do is give me the chance.

And all I have to do is remember how to be the guy she thinks I am.

 

 

GRACIE

I’ve learned the hard way that one reckless mistake can topple your house of cards.

And I thought I was finished taking chances.

But Thomas Gentry made it clear he was on a mission to break my armor and guys like Thomas didn’t come along every day.

He was as charming as he was headstrong, as sexy as he was protective.

He put all the book heroes I’ve ever drooled over to shame.

Falling for Thomas was inevitable.

And I was his before I understood something important.

We both need to find a way to heal ourselves.

Otherwise we might ruin each other forever.

 

 

Also By Cora Brent:

 

 

GENTRY BOYS (Books 1-4)

 

 

Gentry Boys Series

DRAW (Saylor and Cord)

RISK (Creed and Truly)

GAME (Chase and Stephanie)

FALL (Deck and Jenny)

HOLD

CROSS (A Novella)

WALK (Stone and Evie)

EDGE (Conway and Roslyn)

SNOW (A Christmas Story)

 

 

Gentry Generations

(A Gentry family spinoff series)

STRIKE (Cami and Dalton)

TURN (Cassie and Curtis)

KEEP (A Novella)

TEST (Derek and Paige)

CLASH (Kellan and Taylor)

 

 

The Ruins of Emblem

TRISTAN (Cadence and Tristan)

JEDSON (Ryan and Leah)

LANDON (Coming Soon)

 

 

Worked Up

FIRED

NAILED

 

 

Stand Alones

UNRULY

IN THIS LIFE

HICKEY

SYLER MCKNIGHT

LONG LOST

 

 

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© 2020 by Cora Brent

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Thomas

 

 

Everyone knows that ancient nursery rhyme. It doesn’t have anything to do with me but sometimes I hear the singsong phrases running through my head for no good reason.

There’s a guy sitting on top of a wall and he falls off. Maybe he was clumsy or maybe someone pushed him. It doesn’t matter. The fall messed him up. And even though everyone came running to help him out, there wasn’t much they could do. Because not all broken things and shattered bones can be fixed.

Wedged in the short lines of rhyme there’s probably some great lesson to be learned. Like don’t climb high walls. Or stay on your guard because you never know when you might lose your balance. It’s unclear if he died at the end. If so, that would be a really ghoulish conclusion to a kid’s poem.

I didn’t fall. I didn’t die.

And although it’s easy enough to imagine how much worse things might have turned out, I try not to do that.

But before the attack, I never used to appreciate how easy it was to sleep. Those peaceful and dreamless breaks have been lost to me for many months. When I do sleep, my least favorite thing to do is wake up. Because there’s often a brief window of sluggish confusion where I forget what happened. I forget about steel bat hitting bone. I forget about the gun in my face and all its murderous promises. I forget about the surgeries and the months of painful physical therapy. I forget that all the well meaning efforts to glue me back together were valiant but still fell short.

Remembering never takes long.

I remember that my grip on the ball is loose and unsure. I remember that my curveball pitches remain sloppy despite countless hours of rehab. I remember that my knee pops and occasionally gives out when I run too hard.

I remember the truth; that I’m young and healthy and in excellent physical condition. I have more going for me than most people.

I’ll just never play pro ball.

“Thomas!” A knuckle rapped hard on my closed door.

I groaned, removed the pillow that had been covering my eyes, and tossed it somewhere. The blazing summer sun filtered through the blinds. I guessed the time to be after seven. I should have set my alarm.

“What do you want, Kel?”

“I’m scared.”

My brother didn’t wait for me to respond to his bizarre statement. In traditional Kellan fashion he flicked the doorknob and barged in. He shut the door at his back and pressed his ear to the wood.

I glared at him. “What the hell are you doing now?”

“SHH!” he whisper screamed. “SHE’S COMING.”

“Taylor?”

“Yes.”

“So?”

“So she wants to use me as a recipe tester.”

“Why?”

He shuddered. “She’s been watching the Food Network. It’s given her all kinds of gourmet delusions. Her latest concoction resembles coagulated vomit. I took one look at it and began having flashbacks to the time I got food poisoning at Salad City.”

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