Category: Brand New Day
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 54
After dinner, Diego and Janet go to the campus, but there are too many memories of Tex. “He thinks Tex is his dad.” “He’s five. What was I supposed to tell him? Your father’s an assassin, who left us to hunt down and murder other assassins? It isn’t easy being the son of a jailbird…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 53
It’s 1988, and Diego finally returns. He meets his son, Danny, for the first time. Diego crouched on the ground, holding out his hand. “Hi, Danny. Nice to meet you.” Danny shook his hand solemnly. “Nice to meet you, too.” “I thought… I kind of hoped we could—we could talk,” Diego said hesitantly. “Let me…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 52
Lubbock, Texas. 2000. “No one understood why I took him back, not even me. He was like a drug that I was hopelessly addicted to. I was weak without Diego. I didn’t know where he was, if he was alive, and suddenly, the idea of raising my baby alone was more than I could bear.…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 51
Out of nowhere, Tex shows up at her parents’ house on Christmas Day. He stopped babbling, listening to her. His face clouded. “I’m so sorry, baby. I didn’t know.” “Don’t call me baby. Don’t you ever call me baby! You gave up that right the second you raised your hand to me, and killed our…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 50
Janet is on the way to see her folks in Texas. She’s pregnant, upset and worried about her sick mother. The woman came over to sit by her, putting Janet’s head on her shoulder. “You go ahead and cry it out, honey. You got to get the bad out before the good can come in.”…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 49
Diego leaves, and Janet can hardly stand it. Tissue Warning Days went by, then weeks, with no word from Diego. It was as if he’d fallen off the edge of the world. Janet forced herself to keep going. She had a job to do, but her spark was gone. Everyone noticed, including her students, but…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 47
Janet tells Diego about Tex, and he takes it in stride. He tells her he quit working for the CIA, because he’d nearly died. They made love the rest of the weekend. Monday morning, she returned to school, smiling. “You look way too happy,” Mr. Whitmore said. He still worked at the school. Not so…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 46
Living in Scottsbluff, working as a teacher, Janet had no idea that Diego would walk back into her life. Janet was waiting for him at the bathroom door, dressed in a red ribbon and a pair of naughty high heels, neither of which he removed before carrying her to the bed. She tried to kick…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 45
Janet and Tex have a terrible fight, and he beats her. When she’s at the hospital, she finds out she’s pregnant. She pressed charges against Tex, and they put him in jail for nine months. Unfortunately, her baby didn’t make it that long. She carried it four months before she miscarried. By this time, she…
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Brand New Day by Dellani Oakes – Part 44
Janet and Tex make love for the first time. He asks her to marry him. With every trick he knew, he made love to her again and again, trying his best to convince her he was the man for her. Finally, just before falling asleep, she said yes…. The wedding took place a month later.…
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