Beyond Dreams – Abby Brooks

“And I appreciate that more than I can tell you. This tour? It’s…” He trailed off, shaking his head and staring into his lap. “It’s the start of something big. It’s not just about the music, it’s about proving I can do this. That all those people who said I wasn’t worth anything were wrong…” I stayed quiet, massaging the stress in his upper back. Collin never talked about himself. As much as I knew it was wrong to take advantage of him in a moment of weakness, my curiosity won out.

I needed to know more about the man who’d consumed my every waking minute for the last several months. “I’m sure you’ve heard about the bullying…” Collin cleared his throat. “I was this weird little kid, obsessed with music from the start. I cared about icons like Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, even when everyone else my age was listening to Beyoncé, T-Pain, and the Plain White T’s.

Add my stupid red hair to the mix and I had a bullseye on my back.” “Kids can be so cruel.” “I don’t blame them. It’s group-think. It’s built into us, you know?” He sighed heavily, his eyes a million miles away. “I do blame my foster parents.

They were grown and should have known better.” My hands froze. “You were in foster care?” Collin nodded. “My mom died when I was an infant. My dad?” He shook his head. “He was great. He really was. But one night, he drank himself into a stupor and ran his car off the road. Hit a tree. Suddenly, I’m six years old and have no one.”

His shoulders tensed under my hands. “I bounced from foster family to foster family. Some of them were great. Others? Others just saw me as a paycheck.” I wondered if he realized how many people still saw him as a paycheck but there was no way I could say that to him. Not when he already felt like crap. “That’s how I met Joe,” Collin continued. “When we were twelve, we settled into what we hoped would be our forever family.” His voice grew acidic. “These people though, they collected foster kids like some people collect…I don’t know.

Whatever people collect. Joe fit right in immediately. He’s an ass now, but back then he was a chameleon. Whatever you wanted? That’s what he’d be. Me? I couldn’t seem to be anything anyone wanted.” The pain of his memories clouded his face and I wanted to wash it all away.

“As a voracious reader it is not unusual for me to read 5-7 books per week. What is unusual is for me to be thinking about the writing and characters long after I’ve finished the book. With just the perfect amount of angst and remarkable character development, Abby Brooks has crafted a masterpiece…”

PRAISE FOR BEYOND WORDS “Once again Abby Brooks creates a world filled with beautifully written characters that you cannot help but fall in love with.” PRAISE FOR BEYOND LOVE “A lovely story of growing beyond your past, taking control of your life, and allowing yourself to be loved for the person you are.” MELANIE MORELAND—NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, IN PRAISE OF WOUNDED “Abby Brooks writes books that draw readers right into the story. When you read about her characters, you want them to be your friends.”

PRAISE FOR ABBY BROOKS 1kitap1.com/en BEYOND DREAMS THE HUTTON FAMILY BOOK 5 ABBY BROOKS 1kitap1.com/en 1kitap1.com/en Copyright © 2020 by Abby Brooks All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

1kitap1.com/en CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Epilogue Finding Bliss Sneak Peek Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Also by Abby Brooks Connect With Abby Brooks 1kitap1.com/en CHAPTER ONE Harlow Water lapped against the dock, a rhythmic reminder of who and where I was.

Sun glittered across the water and I squinted, then shaded my eyes, brushing back the tendrils of hair curling in the sweat at my temples. I’d grown up in that very spot, standing at the edge of the world, listening to the secrets the sea whispered whenever my thoughts got too loud. Tomorrow, my brother Eli would marry the woman who finally tamed his heart and our family business, The Hutton Hotel—affectionately called The Hut—was hosting the reception. Behind me, a flurry of activity crawled over the grounds as my family and friends put the finishing touches on the party that would welcome Hope Maxwell into the Hutton clan.

I was supposed to be up there, arranging lights and flowers while laughing and joking with the rest of them. And I would be. In a minute. I just needed a chance to breathe. A chance to throw a handful of worry into the ocean before it consumed me. When my dad passed away, I vowed to leave the days of needless stress and anxiety behind me.

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