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    He's So Heavy
    He's So Heavy
    He's So Heavy
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    He's So Heavy

    By J.D. Walker

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    Bill Cascade knows what it’s like to have nothing, so it’s easy for him to recognize another human being on the brink. When Bill visits his favorite bar one night, he comes across Thorn Blackstone, a twenty-something hottie who has everyone eating out of his hand. A fight breaks out and Bill comes to the rescue. Thorn, however, doesn’t want Bill’s help and pushes him away, at first.

    When Thorn finally shows up on Bill’s doorstep, he’s dirty, hostile, and starving. Bill ignores all of that and gives Thorn a chance to start over. Trouble is, Bill wants Thorn for his own, but thinks he isn’t good enough for someone with such a bright future ahead of him. Naturally, Thorn thinks that’s hogwash.

    What’s a guy to do when the love of his life won’t take no for an answer? Hold on and never let go.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateMay 20, 2017
    ISBN9781634863896
    He's So Heavy
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    J.D. Walker

    J.D. Walker likes to keep her stories short and sweet. A multi-published author, she is also a musician, artist, and lover of all things knit and crochet. For more information, visit lifebyjo.com/jdwalker.

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      He's So Heavy - J.D. Walker

      He’s So Heavy

      By J.D. Walker

      Published by JMS Books LLC

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 2017 J.D. Walker

      ISBN 9781634863896

      Cover Design: Written Ink Designs | written-ink.com

      Image(s) used under a Standard Royalty-Free License.

      All rights reserved.

      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review.

      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It may contain sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which might be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

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      He’s So Heavy

      By J.D. Walker

      Spring is my favorite time of year, though it tended to be a bit cool in these parts until late May. Most of the other seasons I could take or leave. Winter sucked, but I didn’t mind it, not really. Most of my friends bitched and moaned about it, and my coworkers at the bookstore—Shirley in particular—spent the months until summer came around again begging for warmer weather nonstop.

      Maybe the fact that I’d lived on the streets for a long time back home tempered my attitude somewhat. I knew what bone-chilling cold was like, huddling with other people around a fire in an attempt not to freeze to death; jacket never thick enough; thin gloves gone missing; guarding the sleeping bag that fell out of someone’s truck at a gas station with my life. I never talked about that time with anyone. Why would I?

      I never knew my father. My mother died when I was eight and I went into the system, having no other relatives to take me in, willingly or not. When I aged out, I quickly discovered how hard it was to survive in the real world on my own, a hard lesson well-learned.

      I was twenty-three by the time I made it to this town, doing odd jobs and things I’d rather forget as I made my way across country. The first time I’d seen the ocean, I thought that I’d do anything to stay here. It was peaceful and…clean, something hard for me to be while living on the unforgiving streets.

      The people here hadn’t cared about my background or torn, faded clothing—something that had surprised me. In fact, the first person I’d met was Austin Murray, who owned the bookstore where I now worked. He had seen me sitting outside the diner the morning I arrived, dirty, tired, and starving. He’d fed me, found me a place to stay, and helped me get back on my feet, no questions asked. It was a kindness I strove every day to repay, in one way or another.

      I had always loved to read, which made working in a bookstore perfect for me. I wasn’t interested in being a manager. I was more than happy to stock shelves and double-check inventory and take advantage of the generous employee discount.

      One of the things I had hated about being on the streets—and there were many—was the lack of access to reading material. I couldn’t buy books often, and when I bought them secondhand or got them for free from some sort of charity, they would be either stolen or end up destroyed, somehow. And going to the

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