The Fate Of Us (PROBABILITY #2) by Holly Jukes EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Holly Jukes
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Adaline Three Years Later
I’ve signed thousands of contracts over my twenty-five years on this
planet.
Lots of them when I was a child, with my parents hovering over each
shoulder, as I scribbled my wannabe cursive signature across the dotted
line. The majority of them as a fully-fledged A-list actress in a windowwalled office in the tallest building of whatever city I was in. A fair few of
them where I’ve had to pinch the skin of my wrist under the table out of
sheer panic that I’d dreamed I’d been offered another lead role.
And all of them with the gut feeling in my stomach that this wasn’t the
way my life was meant to be.
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That includes the contract that’s sitting in front of me now. The contract
that I want to light on fire until it’s nothing but a smoky pile of ashes. The
contract that, although it offers me a career-defining, Oscar-worthy, star-onthe-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame-deserving kind of role, has me wanting to
bolt out of the glass doors I just walked through, back down the elevator,
and out into the safety and familiarity of Fifth Avenue.
Even the memory of clutching the book to ‘Forever and Always’ in my
hands after I’d devoured all five-hundred and seventy-seven pages in a
single afternoon, tears streaming down my face at the thought that I could
have a shot at playing the main character I’d fallen in love with, wasn’t even
enough to rid my body of the fear it was doused in.
My hand subtly swoops to my stomach, clutching it like I’m about to hurl
my avocado toast across the terms and conditions. It feels like a knot,
constructed of the thickest nautical rope, has formed in there, ties of dread
intertwining themselves around it.
I should be used to the feeling by now. I shouldn’t think twice about it
showing up at sporadic moments and ruining my day… but I’m not. No
matter how many times it makes an appearance, I’ll always convince
myself that it’s nerves, that I’m just being silly, and that I’ll eventually grow
out of these hesitations that have consumed me since I was six years old.
I’ll remind myself that it’s all of those things combined, and not the
overwhelming realisation that perhaps a career as one of the most famous
actresses in the world wasn’t the best choice.
I say that like it was me who decided that this was my destiny. My
purpose. But it wasn’t. That award goes to my parents.
While other parents were just praying their children would maintain a
solid GPA and hopefully, maybe, get into an IVY league school, James and
Betty Moore’s only wish was for their eldest daughter to have a career in
the limelight that they never had.
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