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    A Love Worth Waiting For-Destinee's Story a Novella Book 1
    A Love Worth Waiting For-Destinee's Story a Novella Book 1
    A Love Worth Waiting For-Destinee's Story a Novella Book 1
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    A Love Worth Waiting For-Destinee's Story a Novella Book 1

    By Lisa Marbly-Warir

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    *Original Title Destinee Romance Novella*

    Good things come to those who wait. Or so they say.
    Destinee Jones is a shy, quiet, independent young woman with old-fashioned ideas and standards about love and dating. She believes in He who finds a wife... but in a modern world it limits her dating options. A recent college graduate, she lands a job with Attorney Edward Johnson, Jr. Langston, Michigan’s most rich and handsome bachelor. Destinee is like any other red-blooded woman and falls under his spell-but her shyness and unwillingness to take a chance at love hinders her. He is a man who has everything and can have any woman he wants-but when Destinee walks into his life a series of misunderstandings and stubborn wills threaten to keep them apart.

    Does Edward have what it takes to wear her resistance down?

    Or is Destinee the one woman, he can never have?

    **Book 1 is a Clean romance **
    Parts 2 and 3 contain sexual content
    This book and parts 2 and 3 are available as 1 book in A Johnson Family Saga—Love that Transcends All

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLisa Marbly-Warir
    Release dateMay 13, 2015
    ISBN9781310179341
    A Love Worth Waiting For-Destinee's Story a Novella Book 1
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    Lisa Marbly-Warir

    Lisa Marbly-Warir is an avid reader and has been writing for years. She started out writing fan fiction of celebrities and TV/movie characters. Michael Jackson was her favorite to write about and it garnered her a small following. She published her first book Destinee romance novella (year of completion 2001) in January 2015. Painting and drawing is also a favorite pastime though she doesn’t do it as often as she used to. Next to reading, writing and drawing, Lisa also loves to travel. She has been to Europe, the Caribbean and North Africa as well as travels throughout the United States. You will see she incorporates some of her travel journeys into her stories. One of her quotes “Writing is an escape, and I love living through my characters and bringing them to life” Check out her other storiesTwo Become one-A Destinee romance book 2Jewel—A Chance at LoveBorn Out of Lust (novella) book 3Sista’s can we talk?Under the Irish MoonThe Millionaire—Diamonds Are ForeverA Kiss at ChristmasHis Soul, Her Heartwww.shimmergirlbooks.comwww.lisamarbly-warirauthorpage.weebly.comTwitter @LwarirFacebook Destinee romance Novellawww.Goodreads.com

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      A Love Worth Waiting For-Destinee's Story a Novella Book 1 - Lisa Marbly-Warir

      A LOVE WORTH WAITING FOR

      DESTINEE’S STORY

      A Novella

      Book One

      By

      Lisa Marbly-Warir

      E-published 1/22/2015

      ORIGINAL TITLE DESTINEE ROMANCE NOVELLA

      Book Cover-By Bravographix.com

      Editing by: Dreams and Visions

      Copyright © 2015

      Year of completion 2001

      All rights reserved

      The characters, names and places mentioned in this novella are purely fictional. Any similarities between the characters of this book and real people are coincidental.

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to dedicate my very first Novella to my mother, Milelean; my husband, Kamal, who encouraged me to finally publish it; my brothers, Elijah and Daniel; and my nieces and nephew, Maia, Nina, Tia and Daniel Jr.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter One: Reflections

      Chapter Two: Settling in

      Chapter Three: Life in Langston

      Chapter Four: Edward to the rescue

      Chapter Five: Heart to heart

      Chapter Six: Mingling with the rich

      Chapter Seven: The move to New York

      Chapter Eight: New York

      Chapter Nine: Missing Langston

      Chapter Ten: Christmas Time Surprise

      Bonus Chapter: Edward’s Dilemma

      Chapter 1

      Reflections

      The night sky was velvety blue and the lights of the surrounding buildings glittered like diamonds in the distance as I scanned the view of New York from my high rise hotel room. I made myself comfortable in the window seat, drawing my knees up to my chin and casually glanced back at the man softly snoring on the bed, sprawled out and dead to the world. A night of lovemaking had worn him out. It was because of him that I was even there. I sat in the darkened room, illuminated only by streams of light from the full moon in the crisp autumn sky, reflecting on the events that had brought me to this beautiful and bustling city. Leaving Langston was the best move I could have made.

      I was born and raised in Rosedale, one hour from Langston, and I’d had a happy childhood; the only thing lacking was a father. But I had a loving and doting mother who wanted me to do better in life than she had. She urged me to go to college and get an education and be independent because there was no guarantee of a man being there forever.

      My mother could be overbearing and critical of men. My father had let her down with his womanizing and insensitivity. It wasn’t intentional on her part, but her constant rhetoric that men were worthless, good for nothing creatures incapable of love, caused me to be apprehensive and cautious about men. That began my hunt for the perfect man but I grew up and found that no one was perfect. I managed to keep one childhood belief: that when I met the true love of my life I would just know.

      At the age of twenty-three I finished college, and with degree in-hand, I was ready for the real world. But when I told my mother I had accepted a job in Langston for a prominent attorney, she didn’t want to hear it. Being her only child, she was scared of being alone and guilt-tripped me into staying longer than normal. Most of my friends left home at twenty-one. I explained to her that it was only an hour’s drive, and that I would visit at least once a month and when time permitted, she had encouraged me after all to be independent.

      Yeah, I guess I wanted independence for you. So, where will you live? she asked.

      I told her I hadn’t thought about that and I would just commute till I saved enough money for my own place. I kept my real dream to myself. I always wanted to live in New York, and Langston would be a great stepping stone. What few friends I had were skeptical of me realizing my dream, believing I was too naïve for the real world. They never told me to my face, they humored me, which made me all the more determined. Though I only lived an hour away from Langston, I’d never been there, but I was aware of its longstanding reputation of excluding new comers. Two weeks prior, I drove down for my interview with Mr. Edward Johnson, Attorney at Law. In awe of the many stately homes and big, fancy cars I passed along the way; I couldn’t help feeling nervous taking this first step to independence.

      My destination was downtown Langston and I expected a little more glitz, but it did not differ much from Rosedale. The only difference was the money that flowed. Rosedale was blue collar and Langston was a tight-knit, affluent, African-American community, home of doctors, lawyers and even a few politicians. If you were unlucky enough not to be one of them, they had no problem treating you like a nobody. When I reached the office of Mr. Edward Johnson, I found a respectable looking brick building with ivy climbing one side. I parked my car and went in, still nervous. I stopped at the front desk where a nonchalant receptionist pointed the way to my future. I made my way down the seemingly long corridor and got admiring glances from two men I passed along the way. I paused for a second at my destination, took a deep breath and opened the door.

      Mr. Johnson was not at all what I expected; speaking briefly with him over the phone, I’d made a judgment based on his voice. I envisioned a man in his early forties, settled and reserved. What I saw before me was a fresh face just out of college. I later found out he was thirty-six. I remember being taken by his soft brown eyes and his kissable mouth. He shook my hand and motioned for me to sit and then explained the job requirements and responsibilities. We discussed the position and other personal, but necessary information and when I left I had a job. While in college I’d only had part-time jobs, so getting a full time job meant more money and I was ecstatic. After the interview, I drove back home, eager to tell my mother the good news.

      That’s good baby, I’m glad for you She told me, although her eyes gave away her true feelings.

      I wish my baby wasn’t going so far away, she continued.

      Mom, don’t make me feel bad. This is what I want to do and I can’t stay home forever, I told her, knowing it was not what she wanted to hear.

      I know, I know, she said sighing. I’m glad you’re independent, I wish I’d been like that. I got married right out of high school. So I never learned independence, and I had you a year later, but I wouldn’t change it for the world, you are my life,

      Thanks mom, I said and hugged her. When she talked like that it made me feel obligated to live the life she wanted for me, and not the life I had planned for myself. I retreated to my small bedroom at the end of the hall. It hadn’t changed much from

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