{"id":256483,"date":"2026-07-13T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/color-of-home-lucia-laurence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:49:41","slug":"color-of-home-lucia-laurence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/color-of-home-lucia-laurence\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Of Home &#8211; Lucia Laurence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"text-align:center;margin:0 auto 1.5em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/46f278c9b98fa64d.jpg\" alt=\" - Unknown book cover\" style=\"max-width:300px;width:100%;height:auto;box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,.25);border-radius:4px;\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019d rather mess up by pushing too hard right now though than not pushing enough, so even though putting myself out there like I\u2019m about to has my adrenaline spiking, I shake my head. \u201cNothing. Please stay? Let me be here for you.\u201d His smile is enough to break me. Watery and sad, and he kind of looks like he\u2019s about to cry again, but it\u2019s a real smile as he nods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I\u2019ll stay.\u201d He reaches out across the space between us and, just for one second, gives my hand a squeeze. My heart kicks against my ribs so hard, I swear it\u2019s going to leave a bruise. 1kitap1.com\/en I have no words to describe the havoc the last nine days have wrought on my heart. First, there was the surreal high of last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The hike with Myles where I tricked myself into reading so much into his actions and looks that I\u2019d set myself up for the perfect storm of heartbreak on Sunday when I\u2019d stumbled across him and Rachel together in the woods. Then there\u2019d been the dull, aching realization of how foolishly I\u2019d allowed my hopes to run wild and the crappy reality of the fact that I needed to do what Gemma advised and give myself some distance from Myles. Not forever, but just while I licked my wounds and reminded myself of the fact that, while he will never, can never feel anything more than friendship for me, that isn\u2019t the case when it comes to Rachel Beck.<\/p>\n<p>Or whatever other women make their way into his life. Loving Myles and having his friendship comes at a cost. It may hurt like it\u2019s going to shatter my heart, but it\u2019s a price I\u2019m willing to pay. And then there was Wednesday\u2014 The staff room, surrounded by every last one of my coworkers, is not a place I can let myself think about last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>About Cyril\u2014 Biting my lip, I glance up at the ceiling, willing the tears back from my eyes. Myles gives me a soft nudge from the chair beside me. Checking.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher. This book was created entirely by humans and contains no AI content.<\/p>\n<p>AI Restriction: The author expressly prohibits any entity from using any part of this publication, including text and graphics, for purposes of training artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text or graphics, including without limitation technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style or genre as this publication. The author reserves all rights to license use of this work for generative AI training and development of machine language learning models.<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-13: 9781234567890 ISBN-10: 1477123456 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018675309 Printed in the United States of America Alpha Reading by KM Trent and Katriana Prey Beta Reading by Aisling Millar, Emily Ervin, Jessica Hill, Mindy Jean, and Shauna Davis Cover Design by Get Covers Interior Art by Moontashpena 1kitap1.com\/en CONTENTS Copyright Author&#8217;s Note 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 Charlie&#8217;s Epilogue Myles&#8217;s Epilogue Bonus Epilogue What\u2019s Next in the Colors of Us Series?<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgements Connect 1kitap1.com\/en AUTHOR&#8217;S NOTE This book contains explicit sexual scenes and is intended for adult readership only. It also includes subject matter some readers may find triggering, including: Homophobia (including homophobic slurs) from the parent of one of the MCs MC thinks a verbal dispute with a parent will turn physical (occurs during a flashback when the MC is a teenager) MC dealing with feelings of unwantedness from parents Death of a parent (before the story began) Death of an elderly pet (off page) 1kitap1.com\/en 1kitap1.com\/en 1 CHARLIE I\u2019ve made only a few truly terrible choices in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly before the age of ten. Like deciding to give myself a fabulous new haircut the night before third grade picture day. (Turns out I am not the gifted stylist I\u2019d believed myself to be.) Oh, and the time I thought it would be okay not to tell my parents I was starting to feel super nauseous when they dropped me off at the coolest kid in school\u2019s birthday party? It was in fact, very much not okay. In the last decade and a half though? Smooth sailing.<\/p>\n<p>Post-ten-year-old Charles Lancaster has impeccable judgement, thank you very much. Until precisely six and a half weeks ago. Since then?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This is a short excerpt from the opening of &ldquo;&rdquo; by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. 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