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    Holding Back: A Heart's Journey 1
    Holding Back: A Heart's Journey 1
    Holding Back: A Heart's Journey 1
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    Holding Back: A Heart's Journey 1

    By Rachel Perry

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    SHE HAS MAJOR COMMITMENT ISSUES, AND IT'S ABOUT TO DESTROY HER LIFE
    SHE'S COMMITMENT PHOBIC. HELP!

    Erica is in love with her boyfriend Peter. In fact, she doesn’t know how she can live without him. If only things will stay as it is and people does not have to grow up, then Peter will not demand what she finds hard to give.

    Peter is in love with Erica and he believes they are great for each other. But he wants to know if she loves him — because she never says I love you back. But he is invited to an internship in the Florida Keys, and he wants her to go with him. That will certainly mean a step up in their relationship.

    Peter wants his issues resolved before they go — but when push comes to shove, Erica still can’t tell him what he's been wanting to hear.

    The truth is, Erica feels unsafe in a committed relationship because her father left her mother when she got pregnant with her. But if she doesn’t face her ghosts, she will lose the man she loves.

    What she doesn’t know is that in facing her issues, she is going to embark on a journey that will give her more than she expects — a family, love, and the answers to her unspoken desires.

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    Peter looked at her and continued, “I want you to come with me. We could get an apartment, they give a stipend for that, and you could get a summer job I’m sure, but—”

    “But what?” Erica tentatively asked.

    “But I need to know how you feel about me.” Peter had finally gotten it out.

    After he had said it, he looked directly into her eyes.

    Erica shifted her gaze downwards and said, “You know how I feel about you.”

    “No, I don’t, sweetheart, I know how I think you feel about me, but that’s not the same as hearing you tell me.” Peter’s speech had become a little pressured.

    Erica tried to defend her posture by saying, “I tell you all the time.”

    “No. No, you don’t, Erica. I tell you ‘I love you’ and you smile, you never say ‘I love you’ back. You’ve never said ‘I love you’, or anything to really indicate how you feel. You never talk about the future; I mean our future, together. You talk about your plans to open a business, where you want to open your business, but never once have you put me in any of the plans you’ve talked about.”

    Erica quietly replied, “People say ‘I love you’ all the time and it doesn’t mean anything.”

    Peter now felt a little angry, “And sometimes it does, doesn’t it? I mean when you say it and mean it, I don’t know, it conveys something I need to hear. I mean, do you love me or not?”

    Erica sat quietly looking down, not saying a word.

    All Titles from the Series, A Heart's Journey:

    1 - Holding Back

    2 - The Father's Sins

    3 - Reunited

    A Heart's Journey 4 - (Coming Soon)

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandra Ross
    Release dateFeb 6, 2015
    ISBN9781310330421
    Holding Back: A Heart's Journey 1

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      Holding Back - Rachel Perry

      Holding Back

      By Rachel Perry

      Published by Publications Circulations LLC.

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, companies and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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      Chapter One

      PETER DECIDED IT was time to address an issue in their otherwise terrific relationship.

      We talk about everything except about us. What's up with that?

      He and Erica had been dating for almost two years. They met freshman year in college. He was studying Marine Biology and she was taking business courses. Last year they were both so busy starting school and meeting so many other new people, but they had spent time together and had hung out with each other as often as possible. One of them was always dragging the other to some party, lecture, or exhibit or would meet as often as possible at the Roach Pit, the dining hall.

      It was over the summer, however, that they had become close.

      They both came from small upstate New York towns, not far from each other. They found themselves talking on the phone, texting, e-mailing, or driving to see each other almost every day. It seemed as if they preferred each other's company over spending time with old high school friends. The old friends had grown apart over freshman year, or had at least grown in different directions.

      Back at school for their second year, they had pretty much become an undeclared item. Neither was seeing anyone else by choice, not by commitment. They were sleeping together whenever one or the other had a free dorm room and Peter couldn't imagine that sex with anyone else could ever be as good, exciting, or satisfying as it was with Erica.

      He thought she felt the same way, but she never said anything. She seemed to enjoy their time together, but never actually came right out and said she liked him; much less maybe felt anything stronger towards him.

      He tried to not let it bother him; he sensed she had an issue and she would talk about it when the time came. His gentle prodding today was simply an attempt to open the door to that place she kept locked away.

      What do you mean? Erica asked. We talk all the time.

      Peter had to agree, he had never talked so much, about so many things to anyone before. Especially not a girl. Yeah, I know, but we never talk about us.

      "Sure we do. All the time. About class and books we like and movies and all that stuff. What do

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