The Fairytale Ending Book Two: Reality Crashing Down

By D.C. Chagnon

Cruel years have passed since Diana’s dreams of a high-school fairytale ending were traded in for the reality of a teenage pregnancy and a boyfriend who nearly died in a football game. But now that reality is growing starkly worse. Mike’s hours are getting cut at work again. Diana will have to find a job for the first time in her life, leaving her new baby, Rebecca, while she tries to eke out an existence.

And just when she thinks she can find solace in the last remnants of her intimate relationship with Mike, their trouble in the bedroom multiplies, as every time Diana touches Mike’s leg—the one that was injured, ending his football career—he dwindles to a shell of his former self.

Her once-secret-admirer, Kurt, is still missing after leaving angry with her. Her old high-school rival holds Diana’s last chance at a career in her hands. And, worst of all, even Diana’s best friend is hiding a cruel motive for staying so close, one that will come to fruition by the end of this chapter in "The Fairytale Ending" trilogy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Mulle
• Release date: Jul 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310013874

D.C. Chagnon

D.C. Chagnon was born in a quiet little town in Tennessee, and this was also the place where her love for the romantic and exciting was born. The author remembers days spent running on hillsides and swimming in brooks, and endless hours spent reading books that were her escape from the mundane. It was on a fateful summer day when the teenager wrote her first romantic short story as a submission for a local paper’s contest. Signed under a pseudonym, her story that told of summer and the sun, of a friendship gone beyond its limits, and heart-aching tragedy, garnered praise and the first prize for the young story-teller. She was eighteen, and on that day, she decided that she wanted to write for the rest of her life. The author is happily enjoying the married life with her husband of five years and their two young children. She is an avid traveler and has sought every opportunity to tour places halfway across the globe. While at home, the author makes it a full-time commitment to be a mom, but also spends a lot of her time coming up with new story material. She is often heard saying how difficult it is to balance being a wholesome house mom while writing erotic fiction on the side. While she outwardly claims her inspirations to be the likes of renowned novelists Lisa Kleypas and Anne Rice, she does admit to being a fan of the more current works such as those of the Fifty Shades of Grey author and the Twilight series. On her off times, she can also be seen reading the more wholesome works by Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.

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The Fairytale Ending Book Two - Reality Crashing Down

By D.C.Chagnon

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Other Books in The Fairytale Ending Trilogy

The Fairytale Ending, Book One

The Fairytale Ending, Book Three: Once Upon a Time

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Other Books by This Author

Chapter 1

Diana held baby Rebecca in her arms, soothing the screaming child as she also prepared dinner. She stroked the baby’s back and tried to sing a lullaby, but the screams rang through her skull. Diana looked at the clock worriedly, hoping that Mike was having a good day at work. She walked circles around the room to try and calm Rebecca down, and at one point she caught the reflection of herself in the mirror. Sometimes she was so rushed off her feet that she forgot how much she changed in the last couple of years. In the mirror she saw a tired woman. Her hair was tied back into a tight ponytail, and her pale skin looked washed out and haggard. She was wearing loose, unflattering clothes that did her appearance no favors. All in all it was a far cry from her prom when she had been queen. Her mind flashed back to that night, how perfect and happy it was. The future seemed to stretch out endlessly before her in a glittering trail, but after that point she had been bound to a singular destiny, a destiny that she had not sought or wished for. It wasn’t that she regretted it, of course, because she couldn’t imagine a world in which Rebecca did not exist, but she had not expected her life to take this course. It seemed that all the choices had been taken from her. All she had wanted from life was to live out her fantasy, but she had found out that the reality was a much more complicated prospect.

Once Mike recovered consciousness after his accident the doctor told him the grim truth—that he wouldn’t be able to play football properly again. He’d suffered some nerve damage in his spine and as a result had lost a lot of mobility in his left leg. He could still walk, just about, with the use of a cane, but on that day something more than the ability to walk had been taken from him. It was as if he’d lost some of his essence, some of the metaphysical quintessence that gave him life. A hollowness had crept into him, and it was like a shadow hung over his soul. Even though he was happy at the news of being a father