Clean Girl Spring – Willow Hurst

Ethan’s brows knitted together as he glanced between April and Noah, the former shaking with laughter. “We’re on the same amateur basketball team.” “The B-Ball Baddies,” she gasped out, trying to catch her breath. “Please tell me you have shirts or something.” “Of course—” “Well, it was great seeing you,” Noah cut Ethan off, glaring at April when she tried and failed to contain her cackling.

“Let us know when you’ve got some next steps. I’ve got to run, Ethan—why don’t I walk you out?” Noah led Ethan out and April waved as she wiped the tears of laughter from her eyes. God, she would never let him live this down. Walking through the space after Noah and Ethan had left, April tried to imagine it with painted walls, packed with gorgeous flowers of every color.

It was a pretty picture—soothing, even—and suddenly she was beyond grateful that her friends and family had pushed her toward taking this leap. Her mind was still buzzing with possibilities and ideas, so when her phone vibrated in her pocket, she answered it instinctively before she checked the caller ID. “Finally. Thank you for picking up.” April froze, pulling the phone away from her ear and mouthing a curse as the name on the screen confirmed what she already knew.

Tyler. “April?” he asked when she said nothing. “Hi.” What the hell was she supposed to say to him? She wasn’t even sure if she was angry anymore, or at least not in the same way. At first she’d been pissed as all hell about the betrayal, crushed that he’d had the nerve to bring someone home into their bed, but then she’d realized she was more angry about the time she’d wasted in New York, time she could have spent with her dad while he was still alive.

Instead, she’d been in the city living some kind of falsely perfect life that hadn’t been true to herself or her potential.

Willow Hurst is an author of swoony romance books with plenty of heat and heart. When she’s not cuddling her cats or writing, she enjoys walking in the rain while she drinks her coffee. Willow also writes steamy romance books under the name Jade Church. 1kitap1.com/en Also by Willow Hurst COZY GIRL FALL 1kitap1.com/en Willow Hurst CLEAN GIRL SPRING Magnolia Springs Series, Book 2 1kitap1.com/en To anyone who’s ever accepted less than they’re worth—may you find someone who plants a field of wildflowers for you 1kitap1.com/en Playlist Garden Song Phoebe Bridgers Fade Into You Mazzy Star Cherry Harry Styles Someone New Hozier All I Ever Asked Rachel Chinouriri So Easy (To Fall In Love) Olivia Dean Flowers In Your Hair The Lumineers Femininomenon Chappell Roan Good Graces Sabrina Carpenter Peach Broods Here Comes The Sun The Beatles Feather Sabrina Carpenter Lover Taylor Swift 1kitap1.com/en CHAPTER ONE The good thing about road trips was they gave you plenty of time to think.

… Maybe a little too much time. If she’d stopped driving at hour one, perhaps she wouldn’t have spent hours two and three listening to “Before He Cheats” on repeat while she sobbed over the top of her steering wheel on the near-empty freeway. If she’d stopped after that, then maybe she wouldn’t have felt the all- consuming desire for chocolate and, oddly enough, Milk Duds, that made her pull into the rest stop gas station.

Well, maybe she wouldn’t have been standing in the heavily-graffitied restroom, waiting for her hair dye to be ready to wash out. She was a woman scorned, unmoored, and, yes, a little dramatic, but she desperately needed a change, to be in control. Because ever since she’d walked into the apartment she’d shared with her fiancé and found him literally with his pants down, April had been existing in a state of shock, anger, and desperation. Quite frankly, she was sick of seeing her red-rimmed eyes and the pale-blonde limp waves of her usually luxe hair.

That was the reflection of a woman she no longer recognized, whose life belonged in New York and began and ended with that man, in that apartment. The face staring back at her in the mirror looked washed out, tired bags under her eyes made worse by runny make-up, and a splotchiness to her nose and cheeks from crying that only made her white skin look paler.

In the movies, the women scorned were somehow miraculously put together, or at the very least they cried prettily while drying their tears with the ends of their long, flowy hair. April had burst a blood vessel in her left eye from crying until she was red in the face, and there was a slightly wild look about her that was unnerving.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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