Broken Promises (Chapel Falls #1)

1. Prologue

Pregnant.

Just call me a cliché. Sixteen, pregnant, and my boyfriend dumped me before moving across the country. Let’s not forget the cherry on top of this shit sundae: I live in a falling apart trailer with my drug addict mother and her deadbeat boyfriend.

Fuck. My. Life.

I thought I had a plan to get out of Magnolia Park , the dump I’ve called home for the last six years. It was a good plan, or so I thought. I put all my trust in a boy, but he had no problems ripping my heart out and stomping on it for good measure. The trajectory of my life thus far should have been a sign that I would not drive off into the sunset with Kingston Bluff.

King was the Robin Hood of the trailer park. Seventeen, not afraid of breaking the law if it helped one of the kids that lived here. He always found a way to bring food home, never leaving anyone behind. The unwritten rule was to meet at the picnic bench behind the trailer park at seven each night for dinner. We were a group of kids with parents who seemed to have missed the memo about responsibility, so we looked out for one another.

King spun a tale of him and I, along with his brothers, leaving the state of Georgia, and never coming back. He swore that at seventeen, I was it for him. And me, knowing nothing about love, believed him. King and his brothers were my family; my mom hasn’t paid attention to me in years. Not since my dad left and she started hanging around different men every other week, and those men had a taste for hard drugs. Ever since then, I’ve been an afterthought.

Now, I have to figure out how I’m going to finish school, have a baby, and support a baby. I don’t know what I’m doing, and I’m scared shitless. I can’t even say that I shouldn’t be pregnant, I knew the risk, but I didn’t think my person would break me into a million tiny pieces a week later. However, I will always remember an important lesson.

All men are capable of is breaking your heart.