Even Honey Expires

By Carlene Love Flores

Sin Pointe drummer Will Cordero has good reason to keep his marriage a secret. In an age of no privacy, there’s too much danger and drama should he introduce Honey to the Sin Pointe masses and he’ll do whatever he can to protect her from that. Besides, it’s been pretty perfect having her all to himself. Until one day when he discovers a note she’s written that he was never meant to see.

Living in seclusion has left Honey feeling invisible, pushing her to the breaking point. The secret is no longer their shared adventure. While she is his one source of joy in a mad world, she needs out and he admits he must let her go. But he just can’t. One night, it all comes crashing down on them when Honey snaps, rocking Will’s world. Faced with a life or death situation, can he make the sacrifice and set his soulmate free in the name of love, or will he hold on until his, and her, last breath?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Evernight Publishing
• Release date: Nov 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781773390888

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Copyright© 2016 Carlene Love

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Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Editor: Karyn White

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This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

DEDICATION

For Aidan

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I’d like to thank the Waterworld Mermaids. Four years ago, my writing sisters issued a challenge that we should all write a short ghost story as it was right around Halloween. I’d been working on one of the Sin Pointe novels at the time. Something about the quiet soul of Will, the band’s drummer, told me he was the one I should listen to. Well, he’s a very quiet guy. The story was very short and I believe that is because Will needed time to share his heartache with me and with the world. Four years later, and he has opened up a little, and shared some really beautiful details with me that I hope you’ll find touching.

I’d also like to thank Stacey at Evernight. When I pitched this story to her, I had so many things I had to warn her about. The length, the content, the departure from genres, among others. She reminded me about something … that Evernight encourages us to write without walls, strives to be inclusive of all types of love stories and at the end of the day, does all of this for the readers. She’s an amazing woman.

And so finally and importantly, I’d like to thank you, the readers.

This is for you.

Be well, and be here now.

EVEN HONEY EXPIRES

A Sin Pointe Novel, 6

Carlene Love

Copyright © 2016

Don’t ask her to be a rock for you to lean upon. Instead, build her wings, and point her to the sky, and she will teach you both how to fly. —atticus

Chapter One

Will stood hips to oven handle, his face soaking up the rosemary-fragranced steam that fogged his glasses and warmed their small apartment. One hand stirred circles around a large pot. The baby portabellas bobbing around in his Memaw’s butter sauce had to be perfect tonight because everything else planned for his wife was rotten.

He left their last supper on the stove to check that she was still asleep on the living room floor. There she was, tangled in blankets, earphones in her ears, curled up on her side and holding tight to her pillow. Beautiful, sweet, shy mess. Honey Cordero was his perfection. At one time, he’d been her everything, too.

But her feelings had changed according to the