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    Let It Be (A Sometimes Never novella)
    Let It Be (A Sometimes Never novella)
    Let It Be (A Sometimes Never novella)
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    Let It Be (A Sometimes Never novella)

    By Cheryl McIntyre

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    I’m the happy one. The dependable one.

    The shoulder. The anchor. The pillar. The rock. The matchmaker.

    I’m the one you call when you’ve had a bad day. When you need to vent, or scream, or cry. I will always be there to comfort you. It’s a gift. A talent. A role I’ve happily played. I’ve helped my friends become who they were meant to be. I’ve watched them move away, find love, start their lives.

    But what about me?

    When does my life start? Where is my happily-ever-after?

    My name is Guy Handlin, and this is my story.

    *This novella is a M/M New Adult romance. Recommended for 17+ due to harsh language, sexual situations, and adult themes.

    **Let It Be is a companion novella to the Sometimes Never series, however, it can be read as a stand-alone book.

    ***Please note this novella deals with very dark subject matter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCheryl McIntyre
    Release dateAug 18, 2014
    ISBN9780989036665
    Let It Be (A Sometimes Never novella)
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    Cheryl McIntyre

    Cheryl McIntyre is the author of the bestselling Sometimes Never series, as well as the Dirty series, Infinitely, Dark Calling, HARD, Villain, and Love Sex & Other Games. She resides in Ohio with her high school sweetheart, their two sons, one daughter, and one fur son.FIND CHERYLFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/CherylMcIntyreauthorCheryl’s Blackbirds:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1006715782777752/Twitter:https://twitter.com/CherylHMcIntyreGoodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6431156.Cheryl_McIntyreAmazon:https://amzn.to/2HudaD9BookBub:https://www.bookbub.com/authors/cheryl-mcintyreInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/cherylmcintyreauthor/Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/chm22480/Book+Main Bites Romance:https://bookandmainbites.com/CherylMcIntyreNewsletter:http://bit.ly/1C2azm3BOOKS BY CHERYL:New Adult Romance:~Sometimes Never~Blackbird (A Sometimes Never novella)~Before Now~Long After~Always Forever~Let It Be (A Sometimes Never novella)~Sometimes Never: The Series Box SetAdult Romance:~HardNew Adult Suspenseful Romance:~InfinitelyAdult Suspenseful Romance:~Getting Dirty (Dirty 1)~Playing Dirty (Dirty 2)~Talking Dirty (Dirty 3)~Fighting Dirty (Dirty 4)~Staying Dirty (Dirty 5)~Dirty: The Five-Part Serial Bundle~Grit: A Dirty SequelYoung Adult Paranormal Romance:~Dark Calling (Dark Calling 1)Adult Urban Fantasy:~VillainRomantic Comedy:~Love Sex & Other Games

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      Let It Be (A Sometimes Never novella) - Cheryl McIntyre

      Let It Be

      (A Sometimes Never novella)

      By Cheryl McIntyre

      Let It Be (A Sometimes Never Novella)

      Cheryl McIntyre

      Copyright Cheryl McIntyre 2014

      Published at Smashwords

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form without prior written permission by the author except where permitted by law.

      This book is a work of fiction. Any references to real persons, events, or places are used fictitiously. The characters are the work of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to persons living or deceased, events, or locales are coincidental.

      The author acknowledges the trademark status, as well as ownership of products referred to in this work of fiction. The uses of these trademarks have not been authorized, nor are they associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.

      Cover photo by Scott Hoover—Courtesy of Love N. Books

      Cover model Jacob Sones

      Cover design by Sommer Stein

      Edited by Dawn McIntyre Decker

      August 2014

      Table of Contents

      Prologue Guy

      One Guy

      Two Ian

      Three Guy

      Four Ian

      Five Guy

      Six Ian

      Seven Guy

      Eight Ian

      Nine Guy

      Ten Ian

      Eleven Guy

      Twelve Ian

      Thirteen Guy

      Fourteen Ian

      Fifteen Guy

      Sixteen Ian

      Seventeen Guy

      Eighteen Ian

      Epilogue Guy

      Other books by Cheryl McIntyre

      Acknowledgments

      About the author

      Prologue

      Guy

      I would like to say I’ve always known exactly who I am.

      I’d like to tell you that I somehow skipped over the confusion and struggles with my self-esteem, self-worth, self-image. I’d like to say I have always accepted myself and my sexuality.

      That I grew up gay and proud.

      I’d like to say that, but it would be a lie.

      At eleven years old, when most of the kids in my school were showing interest in the opposite sex, I was absorbed in music and video games. And I saw nothing wrong with that. In fact, I paid absolutely no attention to it at all.

      And then one day, right around my twelfth birthday, it happened. Troy Jensen transferred to my school. He walked into my band class. Our gazes met as Mrs. Farrow introduced him, and I thought he had the nicest smile I had ever seen. His eyes were like green glass and they held me captive.

      I tried to stop staring because I didn’t want him to think I was weird, but the more I looked at him, the less I wanted to look away. He was the first person I ever thought was beautiful. Not pretty. Not cute. Not glamorous or interesting.

      He was beautiful.

      I’d like to say it hit me like an epiphany. That the clouds parted and the sun shone down on me with a sudden clarity as trumpets played the sweetest symphony. That I realized I was gay. And I was okay with it.

      I’d like to say that—I really wish I could—but it would be a lie.

      No matter how incredibly right it felt, it just felt wrong.

      I felt wrong.

      So I fought against it. I tried to ignore it. I hid it from everyone. Especially Troy Jensen. The more my friends talked about girls, the more I tried to embrace heterosexuality. I joined in the discussions about girls—who was the prettiest, who I wanted to get to which base with, who was most likely to allow me to get to those bases, and so on.

      But the whole time, I knew it was a lie.

      I didn’t want it to be untrue. I tried to force myself to actually feel the way I was pretending to feel. Claiming to feel. Begging to feel.

      But I couldn’t do it.

      No matter how hard I tried, no matter how hard I fought—and against everything I was raised to believe—I couldn’t hide from the fact that I was different.

      I liked boys.

      I liked boys the way my friends liked girls.

      And so, one day, I started using my closet for what it was really meant for—clothes and shoes, and random shit you can’t find a place for—and I stepped out. Because I wasn’t some random thing that didn’t have a place.

      I was a person who just wanted one thing out of my life. The same thing everyone, everywhere wants.

      Happiness.

      And you can’t be happy living a lie.

      I decided being different was a blessing—not a mistake, not a curse, not a disease. And I had every right to that happiness as everyone else.

      Unfortunately for me, I didn’t understand what true happiness was until it was taken away.

      One

      Guy

      I don’t know exactly when it all went wrong. Maybe I should know. Maybe that was the problem. But I didn’t have a clue. Looking back, I realize there were signs. Nothing big or glaring, but signs all the same. If I only understood what I was looking at.

      When Ian frowned, I would tickle him until he laughed. When he refused to get out of bed, I would lay in bed with him, vegging out and watching TV alongside of him. When he refused to go out with me because he was tired or sick for the fourth time that week, I would bug him, making him feel guilty until I either got my way or gave up. And when he would pick

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