Unbreakable Devotion: Unbreakable, #1

By Amanda Chayse

Book One in the Unbreakable Series
Unbreakable Devotion: Young Adult Romance

Devon and Erin have always been best friends, ever since they were kids.

Devon

Playing football at their high school, Devon is thrown into the cool kids' crowd without any warning. His new friends are rich, cool, and popular...everything Erin isn't. But even the hot cheerleaders throwing themselves at his feet can't stop him from thinking about Erin as more than just the girl next door he grew up with.

Erin

Erin has never been able to trust anyone. Her dad left her when she was young, and ever since then life has been a string of disappointments. The only thing holding her together through the struggles has been Devon. And now he's too good for her.

When Erin's world is shattered by a horrific event, Devon can't stop himself from getting involved, but will it rip apart their relationship forever in the process?

Nothing could break their friendship... until one summer changed everything.

Excerpt

Devon

“So I have not seen you around.” Devon looked at Erin, wanting to tell her nothing mattered except her, but not here, not now.
“It looks like we have both been busy,” Erin said, steely eyed now, arms tightening. “Well, you guys have fun,” Erin said, walking away.
“Erin, wait!” Devon ran beside Erin, grabbing her shoulders and facing her, looking into her always irresistible eyes. “It’s just a date, Erin. Matt asked these girls out. I didn’t even ask her out.” Devon’s eyes widened in a plea he hoped she would see. Could she hear him?
“But you said yes,” Erin said in a slightly trembling voice. She looked up at Devon, her eyes looming large in the autumn night.
Devon’s stomach tightened as he spoke. “Matt and Shannon just wanted someone to go out with her friend. It’s just an innocent get-together, Erin. It’s nothing,” he said.
“It looks like something from here.” Erin frowned and brushed her long blonde hair off her chest and over her shoulder.
“Erin, why is this bothering you? Why are you acting this way?” Devon scrambled through his mixed-up thoughts to try to defuse the situation.
“Guys can be so dumb,” Erin said with furrowed brows and a grimace. “We’re just friends, Devon. It doesn’t matter. C’mon, Kathy, let’s go.”
Kathy narrowed her eyes at Devon, and sashayed away from him towards her friend and down the sidewalk. Devon gazed at her, his hands in his back pockets, wondering whether Erin wanted to tell him something. He watched them walk away, trying to process what just happened.

Mature audiences only.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amanda Chayse
• Release date: Aug 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781502264480

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Unbreakable Devotion

A New Adult Romance Novel

Book One of the Unbreakable Series

By Amanda Chayse

Copyright © 2014 Amanda Chayse

All Rights Reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, entities, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Unbreakable Love

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Chapter One

~Devon~

Devon stood outside, watching the fall leaves spin and sprinkle around him in a colorful tapestry of fall. He was wondering how his playmate of fourteen years had done this to him. They were best friends, went to school together, played together, shared each other’s toys, and began middle school and high school together.

He played at her house, ate meals there, and became like a son to Erin’s mom. And Erin came over to Devon’s house, played with all his stuff, and ate up their food during many lunches and dinners.

Are you coming over today? she often asked him with her hopeful smile.

This was like music to Devon’s ears, even if he pretended to be aloof and cool. I guess. What are we going to do, play with your dolls?

You have your own to play with. I have a new video camera, though. We can make some funny videos. Her bright smile was starting to make his heart race.

Sure, Erin. Whatever makes you a YouTube star, Devon smirked. Devon was fascinated by how creative Erin could be. She could get thousands of hits just making one funny video. There were a lot of things he was starting to like about her more and more, and it terrified him.

After all, this was his best friend. They told each other just about everything. What was he supposed to tell her now? That he wanted to kiss her when she looked at him with her big blue eyes and full lips?

Erin’s dad had left her and her mom when she was only two, and Devon’s dad died when he was only four. My mom is never home. She works all the time, just like yours, she often remarked when he came over. Promise me you’ll always be my best friend, she would sometimes say for no reason.

Devon would hide his wide grin when she made him promise him. I promise, Erin. Just like yesterday. He ribbed her to no end, but would miss the day she would stop asking him.

They shared their deepest feelings and deepest fears, but they snapped out of conversation quickly when it got them too down, as if they were both attuned to how much pain they could take.

Smile and think about something happy, she reminded him. Increasingly, the happiest thing he could think of was spending time with her.

But we were best friends, after all, and nothing more he would try to convince himself. Even when they fought, which was usually a matter they both made short work of for the sake of their friendship, they remained best friends. In their often unstable lives, their friendship was a given like the morning sun.

Nothing came between them. It was the magic of their relationship. Their friendship always trumped everything. They knew each other too well to let a careless offense, an unkind word, or a mean comment fester for too long.

Take it back, Erin demanded after Devon called her ugly when they were twelve. It was easy for Devon to apologize. For one thing, he knew it wasn’t true. You’re not ugly, Erin. I was just mad. It was a good front. She would never figure out that he actually thought she was beautiful now. But for another, he wanted to see her smile again, which was warmer than the afternoon sun that caressed his face as they played outside. Her smile made his day, and he would not trade it for anything. He could never tell her that, though, or she would run away from him and never want to see him again. It would be better to see her and pretend he felt nothing but friendship for her.

He had to play this game at least for a while.

But last summer things really changed. That’s when he and Erin went swimming at the lake, as usual, except it was not as usual. Devon always knew that Erin was cute, in her own goofy way. Her blue eyes always shined when she laughed, and he was captivated when her soft pink lips perked up in a devastating smile. He started to notice her shimmering blonde hair cascading over her golden summer skin. He had wanted to kiss her even as a kid, and did at least three times on the cheek. But they were kids, and he did not think much of it.

This summer, a kiss on her beautiful swollen lips would melt him in the summer heat and leave him wanting to kiss her even more as her soft blonde hair cascaded over his hands, and his nimble fingers wandered over her delectable body. He could barely look at her now, without feeling these feelings that had nothing to do with friendship. Her soft curves flustered him, and made him deny what was happening, but it was all too clear. What the hell is going