Melyssa Winchester Books

Anger, Resentment, Jealousy, Rage, Violence, Hate and Fear. For eighteen years, this is all I've known. When everything seemed to crash and burn around me, I could always count on those seven things to get me through. At least that's how it was until Isabelle. With one brief look across a crowded parking lot, she altered my entire existence. Erasing all of the things I thought I could count on and replacing them with ones of her own. Things that even now, a year later, I still don't think I deserve. Forgiveness, Understanding, Acceptance, Friendship, Redemption, Hope and Love. So what do you do when you've been given all of these things by the most beautiful person on the planet with nothing expected in return? Well when you're me, you find a way to screw it up. She thinks I'm the strong one. That I'm not afraid of anything. She's wrong. I'm afraid of a lot of things, but the absolute worst is losing her. Losing yet another person I love and being powerless to stop it. I can't lose Belle. I just can't. Even if losing her is exactly what I deserve. You thought our story was complete, but what you're about to find out, is no story ever really ends. It just finds new ways to begin again.

**Due to the sensitive nature of the material within these pages, it is recommended by the author that you do not let young children read this story. It is recommended for readers at least 16+.in age.** Numbers. They’re significant. In my life each one meaning more than the one before it. Seven years. Two thousand, five hundred and fifty five days. That’s how long it’s been since I learned I have Asperger's Syndrome. Five years. One thousand, seven hundred and twenty days. How long I've been in therapy because of it. One random meeting. All it took for my world to be turned upside down and for me to learn that even in the worst human being, there’s a story to tell and sometimes, the cover to that story can be misleading. I’m Eric Carmen. She’s Amelia Evans and this is our story.

There are people that tell you high school is the best time of your life. They lied. High school is horrible when you're like me and you're autistic. They think that because I don't talk and I seem to always be lost in my own world, I'm stupid or deaf. Some even think I'm retarded. I'm none of those things and I don't like that word. Just because I've got these issues, doesn't mean it's all I am. There's a lot more to me, but no one really takes the time to get to know it. At least that's how it was until Kayden. Kayden Walker is bad news. He spends his time making people that are different, like me, feel even worse about themselves and he does it with a smile. He's everything I don't need in my life, yet he's the one person I can't seem to live without. Underneath, there's more to him that he's afraid to let the rest of the world see. I've seen it and as I'm finding out, we're not so different after all...

"You only get one life, make the most of it." I'm guessing that screwing my way through the female talent for the last ten years wasn't what Louis Sachar had in mind when he said that. Piece of shit. Home wrecker. Manwhore. I've been called them all. Earned them too.I can't erase what I've done, I own it all. It just damn sure isn't the legacy I imagined leaving behind when I finally hang up my boots and call it quits.I'm not who I was when I agreed to do this for the rest of my life. To be this. The best professional wrestler on the planet? A Heavyweight Champion in multiple promotions? The top dog?That I wanted. It's in the selling of my soul to the devil and becoming Gavin the character more than Gavin the man, I didn't see coming. Somewhere along the way, dollar signs and perks overtook the rush of being in the ring. Overtook the dream. Changed me.So, I did what my man Louis up there said.I made the most of it until the most wasn't good enough anymore. I'm tired.Tired of being Gavin "The Manwhore" Fortune. After ten years, one too many burned relationships, and a black mark that no matter how much I do, I can't wash off, I'm ready to be me. No Fortune. Just Gavin.And Dawson, the newest devil in my world, she can get me there.I just need to find a way to make her like me first.

Every hero has a villain.It's been that way since the beginning of time.If you're looking for a present-day example, look no further than Batman.He had a slew of them, but my personal favorite was Harvey Dent.When you think about it, with the way my life has been, I could easily be considered his far more evil brother.The only real difference between us, I have more faces than two.You see, monsters aren't born, they're created.And just like every villain that's come before me, I'm not going anywhere.Not even when faced with my biggest challenge yet.Jail.I'm not walking away until they all pay for what they turned me into.The monster with so many faces, he has no real face at all.

There are people that believe because you may not appear the way they do that you’re somehow weaker or less worthy than they are. I’m living proof they’re wrong. From the day I was born I've always been seen as one thing—deaf. What people don’t realize, is just because I can’t hear the things they say, doesn't mean I don’t feel the pain that comes from their words and actions. I’m more than just the girl that can’t hear and I've never been more determined to prove it now that I've been sent here. Wexfield High School. I know everything that happens here and I know even more about the guy who makes it all happen. Dillon Murphy is trouble with a capital T. He goes out of his way to hurt those he perceives to be weaker than him and does it with a smile. What he doesn't realize is that his tricks, they won’t work on me because I know his secret. As I’m finding out, there’s a lot more to Dillon then he wants the world to see and before my time here is up, I’m determined to make him see it, even if it costs me my heart in the process.