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PROLOGUE ~ LOVE ALWAYS, SCOTT: CITY OF SISTERLY LOVE PREQUEL NOVELLA
CASSANDRA
It took me an extra-long time to find the love of my life. Well, the male love of my life. The truth is, in some ways, Darian is also the love of my life. My best friend. Though not blood, she’s my sister in every way that matters.
I’ve learned that love comes in all different forms at all different times in your life. No two love stories are the same. There’s no perfect formula.
My sisterly love for Darian began our freshman year of college. My brotherly love for Scott began nearly two years later.
My first dose of motherly love came when Darian gave birth to Harley. I’ve never fallen so hard or so fast for anyone in my life. I felt the exact same way when Reagan and Skylar were born. Of course, I now have that for my own two children, Dylan and Brandon.
Darian lived in blissful happiness for a very long time. While I didn’t have my own life partner at that time, I did have Darian, Scott, Harley, Reagan, and Skylar. They always loved and treated me like family. They meant everything to me. They still do.
Despite many moments in my life that were less than ideal, the worst day of my life was the day Scott passed. I not only lost Scott that day, but I also lost Darian.
I watched as my best friend’s heart physically shattered into pieces. It shattered my heart too. Not only to lose Scott, but to watch Darian suffer that much pain. To watch the girls lose their deeply beloved father. It was nearly unbearable to witness.
It was a long and bumpy road to get my best friend back to the land of the living again. She suffered three years of massive depression. Though I maintained otherwise with the girls, I wasn’t sure we’d ever see the Darian we knew again. I wasn’t sure the girls would ever get their mother back.
I’m thankful every single day for Jackson Knight. He brought Darian back to life. He also brought Trevor Knight into mine.
Maybe Trevor is right that I had a small hand in saving Darian, but I simply kept her afloat. I helped maintain the status quo with the girls. It was Jackson who injected her with life. Literally.
After years of pain and suffering, where the shine in her green eyes had dulled, Jackson helped her find laughter again. Her love for life. Her participation in life. He helped her eyes shine bright again. He brought that big, beautiful smile back to her gorgeous face.
After some internal struggles, Darian eventually came to understand that it was okay to love two men at two different times in her life. Scott was her soulmate for the first half of her life, and Jackson the second. I hope she knows how lucky she is to have two men love her so deeply. I think she does.
There have been so many great love stories for our family in the past few years. I was able to bear witness to all of them. I even had one of my own.
Our (yours and mine) journey together started the day we lost Scott, but twenty-five years before that, a beautiful, innocent, pure love story unfolded right before my eyes. It was one for the ages. It began with a trip to the library…
