Sarah's Premonition

By T R Lykins

Waking up with a feeling of dread, Sarah Lynn Dean attempts to go on with her day. Getting closer to her destination she is overwhelmed with such feelings of pain and sadness. It causes her to make a spur of the moment decision. A decision that not only changes her course but her life forever.

One day can change forever.

Adam Castiel Parker is stunned by the beautiful stranger. Compelled to follow her, he must find out who she is. Before he takes his next step the loud noise behind him steal his attention. Turning to find the source, he loses the beautiful stranger.

Will she be lost forever? Will he ever be able to thank her for the gift she gave to him without even knowing?

Never to be forgotten.

Sarah must learn that life must go on even on darkest of days. A day that irrevocably changes the world!

• Language: English
• Publisher: T R Lykins
• Release date: Jan 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311385796

T R Lykins

Tina Stewart formerly writing as T R Lykins is an author who enjoys writing her unique stories to share for readers all over the world. When she isn't writing, her husband and sons keep her on her toes. She loves reading and loves most genres. The love of these books spiked her interest to learn more about the book world and the process it took to become an author. Learning as much as she could about the wonderful world of writing, she had to write her stories. The learning process has also made her appreciate, what all these authors have accomplished and all the hard work they put in. Her novels are Clean New Adult/Young Adult Romance. Why did she write a clean romance novel? She wanted to share her stories with everyone and focus more on the storyline. As a mother, she needed to know what that her children would be proud of and not be afraid to let them read and be apart of her journey as an author. Now she is proud that she can share her stories with anyone at any age group. Adults and teenagers alike can read her stories and be proud to have kept it clean for everyone to read. Thank you for being apart of her world and taking a chance on reading her stories. You can follow Tina Stewart formerly T R Lykins progress on her website: http://authortrlykins.com. This also has many different links to all her social media pages to help find out what is coming up next with her future books.

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Sarah’s Premonition

Copyright 2014 T.R. Lykins

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Editor: Karen Mills-Tribble

Cover Design by: Juliana Cabrera at Jersey Girl Graphics

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Dedication

Fairytales Don’t Always End Happily-Ever-After

Prologue

Chapter 1: Sarah

Chapter 2: Adam

Chapter 3: Sarah

Chapter 4: The Chance Meeting

Chapter 5: Lunch Date

Chapter 6: Writer’s Block

Chapter 7: Traitorous Heart

Chapter 8: Book Signing #2

Chapter 9: Why Do You Deserve Another Chance?

Chapter 10: Lunch Take Two

Chapter 11: Time Spent with My Girls

Chapter 12: Cancelled

Chapter 13: School is Out!

Chapter 14: Getting Ready for Our First Real Date Alone

Chapter 15: First Date Alone

Chapter 16: Fun Day

Chapter 17: Routine Has Begun

Chapter18: Trip Time

Chapter 19: Swans Boats All Around

Chapter 20: Someone Has a Stalker

Chapter 21: First Thanksgiving

Chapter 22: Book Tour Alone

Chapter 23: Wedding Gift

Chapter 24: New Siblings

Chapter 25: The Wedding Surprise

Chapter 26: The Reception & Honeymoon

Epilogue: Maybe Happily-Ever-After Does Happen

Acknowledgements

To all who have lost loved ones.

We must keep going even when we don’t think we can.

Hang in there and just remember you are still here.

Once upon a time, there was a wealthy couple, which this couple had everything they needed, and even some extra things. They had a beautiful apartment in New York City, which they shared with their two beautiful, little daughters. Money wasn’t something they worried about because they had enough for them and their daughters to live on for as long as they lived.

The mother didn’t work outside the home but stayed with her beautiful little girls and took care of them with all her love. She never did leave them very often, but every once in a while she had to spend some ‘alone time’ with her husband. Of course, they could have had any babysitter they wanted, but the mother picked a sweet teenage girl, she fell in love with, while she was playing with her little girls at Central Park.

This teenager loved the little girls like her own or, as though they were her little sisters. She would always spoil them as much as she could but also made sure they did right by playing nice and sharing what they had with others. This impressed the mother so much that the mother told her husband what to do if anything were ever to happen to her.

Of course, the husband always thought the mother would be with them until they all were old and gray, so he said okay. But…sometimes in fairy tales we don’t always get our happily-ever-after. We find out we should have been better to the ones we loved the most, and should always let them know it.

The mother had left the little girls with the teenager for just a few minutes to run to the corner store on the block where they lived. Little did the mother know that she would never get to see any of her loved ones again. While crossing the intersection, a taxi hit her. She died instantly!

The father and the daughters were devastated, as was the teenage girl. They all lost the one true love of their lives in just a spilt second. The father became a widow who had two small daughters to take care of. He didn’t know if he could do it alone. Once he finally remembered what the mother once told him to do if anything should happen to her, he put it into action.

Unbeknownst to the father, the teenager was homeless. He offered her a full-time nanny position with them because the mother knew this teenager needed a home and also knew how much the teenager dearly loved her little girls. Since the teenager was turning eighteen soon, she said she would, because of her love for these two little girls.

The father set everything in motion as soon as the teenager turned eighteen. He wanted her to have the best in life and never have to worry about being homeless ever again. He made sure she finished high school and got enrolled in New York University. He knew she was smart and was full of fight. He knew she would always take care of herself and help watch and protect his daughters.

Maybe this fairytale has a happy ending but then maybe not? The mother must have known what was going to happen in the future, to tell her husband what needed to be done in the event of her death. Luckily, the husband listened before it was too late…or did he?

I remember that awful day like it was yesterday. It is the day that no one will forget unless you were too young to remember. That day changed so many lives and mine changed more than I ever wanted it too. It was when I had just started at New York University and was going to school for a degree in literature. I needed a job to help pay for my expenses because it is very costly to go to school in New York. That is how I felt, even though, I knew I really didn’t need the extra money because my boss made sure everything was paid for. But I didn’t want to take advantage or to waste his late wife’s gift to me.

I was lucky to be a full-time nanny since before I was eighteen, to two small girls that were only three and one. I met and fell in love with the girls instantly. While I was homeless and living on the streets, the mother would pay me to baby-sit ever so often. Then, tragically, the mother died in an accident. Her husband decided I should move in with them to live as their nanny and help him with the girls. They even lived close to school and the little girls who I took care of were little angels and I loved them deeply.

Their father was a rich widow. He was gone a lot and I spent most of the time with the girls. He worked as a financial banker at the World Trade Center. I had worked around his schedule so that I attended school when he was home with the girls. The household employed several people, including a housekeeper and a cook. On the days I had school and he ran late getting home, they would watch the girls until he made it home. Everything worked out perfectly.

I loved my job and the girls were the greatest little girls. On that particular day, I was taking them to their father at the World Trade Center. The oldest girl, Jessica didn’t want to go because she knew her baby sister Nicole had to go for her physical at the doctor’s office and get her immunization shots. Nicole always cried really loud when she got her shots. Jessica always hated it. Nicole was too little to know what was coming that day because we all kept it a secret from her.

While I was getting all of us ready to go, I had this horrible feeling of dread come over me. This feeling was so strong! I wanted it to go away and I tried my hardest to ignore it. I couldn’t shake it off, but we left anyways to meet their dad soon after. I kept telling myself that no matter what, it is my job to get the girls where and when they needed to be. My job depended upon it and I didn’t want to lose my job because I really loved and needed it.

The closer we got to the World Trade Center, the more my dreadful feelings grew, and I had this feeling of extreme sadness that almost brought me to my knees. I began to hyperventilate and lose my breath as my heart started beating faster and faster the closer we got. When the sweat started pouring down my face, I decided I had no choice but to turn around and take the girls home. As soon as I did, the dreadful feeling eased up and the further away the girls and I walked away from the building, my heart beats began to slow.

What is up with me today? The girls kept asking me why they weren’t going to meet their dad, but I really couldn’t answer them. I noticed everyone that was headed in that direction and I became scared for all those people too. This feeling of total absolute dread…was the strongest I have ever felt in my life. I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I just had to go away…in the opposite direction of the way we where headed. I knew deep down in my soul if we continued on our path that something horrific would happen.

Once back home, I finally could breathe normally again and I felt overjoyed by not taking the girls to their dad today. I just hoped their father would understand and not be too mad at me because I didn’t take his daughters to meet him. Would this cause me to lose my job? Both girls seemed okay with not going to meet him and head into the living room to watch TV.

I decided it was best to call their father and let him know what I had done. I picked up the phone and I turned toward the girls to check on them. They had the channel on the news, which is unlike them, but it was what was on that channel that made me drop the phone and drop me to my knees. I was in shock with what I saw. My eyes and my heart will never forget…or ever be the same.

The television had just shown the first plane that flew into the World Trade Center. I began dialing the phone and calling the girl’s father to make sure he was okay. He was in the building that was next to the one hit by the plane. He answered and said he was fine. Then he told me, if for some reason he doesn’t get out of the building, that he left me something in his office there at home, for the girls and for me that had my name on it. This puzzled me.

He was glad that I hadn’t taken the girls to meet him and he even said he ‘trusted me with their lives’. He kept telling me to tell the girls that he would always love them and to keep telling them this always. He was scaring me with his panicky frantic words. I was getting ready to tell him how scared I was when the second plane hit the building that he was in and the phone died. My heart stopped!

Both girls started crying and I tried consoling them. I knew they were really too young to understand that their dad was never coming home again but they both were scared of what happened. We sat dumbfounded, in front of the TV watching the whole scene unfold before our eyes. We felt totally hopeless knowing there was nothing that we could do about anything that was happening on the television in front of us. I did try and call their father several times and never once did I get to talk to him again. Once both of the towers fell, I knew that all our lives had been irrevocably changed forever.

It has been several years since that horrible day that I had the premonition not to take my girls to meet with their father at the World Trade Center on September eleventh. I call the girls mine because their father had a Last Will and Testament in place, not only granting me power of Attorney, but also leaving them to me to raise, before he died that horrible day. In that will, he asked me to be their mother by adopting them both. Since I already loved them with all my heart, I decided to adopt them as soon as I could. I loved them and unfortunately, knew what the foster system can turn out to be. Their dad’s will also left me with plenty of money to take care of Jessica and Nicole. Plus he left me the apartment that we stay in, and both girls have a huge trust fund once they finish college.

I worked my college schedule around both of the girls’ schedules. I finished attending college while they were in school. I know I really didn’t need to finished college because technically, I now had plenty of money…but I needed to for me. Becoming a writer had always been my dream and now I have accomplished it. Soon, I will have one book published and have several in the works to be finished.

I have to start on a book tour soon. My publisher has worked most of the tour around my schedule so I won’t be away from the girls and they both can go with me. We decided since it is my first book we could do the tours in New York City at some of the big bookstore chains. I will have to travel out of town soon for a few of them and I have a babysitter lined up for when I do travel. I will only be away from them for three days, but this scares me because since I became their mother, I have never really been away from them. They are my life and I won’t have it any other way.

I’ve always had a big imagination and writing romance fiction has always been my dream. All my stories have a true connotation about them. They are not the new hot steamy romances that females are crazy about nowadays, so my editor is making me go out on these book tours to help get the word out about my books. I even have a few book events that I have to attend with some major authors. This terrifies me but I am also excited to be a fan-girl around my favorite authors. I am the youngest in this group of authors and I hope they don’t treat me like the baby of the bunch. Being an author already at my age is a big deal, as is already having a signed publisher.

I really have had to work hard to get to this place in my life. When I was only fifteen, I was homeless on the streets of New York City. I came from a home life