Book Title: Keep the Faith
Release Date: July 31, 2016
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“So, French Fries, will you tell me who that guy is now?”
I
looked at him with a start. Nico was near enough to have a clear view
of my screen that showed a photo of James, and the screen gave off
enough light for me to see his curious expression. I locked my phone,
put it back in my bag, and looked out the window to avoid his intense
gaze.
“Faith?”
Nico said softly after the silence had stretched on long enough. My
name sounded weird coming from his mouth after I had gotten used to his
calling me French Fries. “I’m sorry. Look, I won’t press anymore—”
“He’s
my ex,” I blurted out. He was silent so I sighed. “That guy in the
pictures was my ex-boyfriend. But I’m pretty sure you figured it out
already, or you must have heard about him from our colleagues.”
Without
my phone, it was too dark for me to see his expression, but his
hesitation filled the air. Finally, he said, “You don’t have to talk
about it if you don’t want to.”
But
that was the thing. Now that I’ve said it out loud, I wanted to talk
about James, about us. His memory was now a phantom inside the van I
felt I should entertain so it wouldn’t leave me.
I missed him so much.
“We were together for five years, and he broke up with me before I left for my last mission,” I started slowly.
“Oh,” Nico rubbed his face with his hand and let out a breath. “That sucks. I’m sorry.”
I shrugged, ignoring the pinch in my heart. “These things happen, unfortunately.”
I
paused, sensing his discomfort again. I bit my lip to suppress a
giggle; it was kind of amusing to see the confident Nicolas Tamayo
fumble.
“Why did you break up?” he asked.
“He said he can’t do this anymore.”
Silence, then, “What the hell does that even mean?”
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------About the Book:
As a community development worker, Faith was quite familiar with heartbreak and recovery after all the time she spent on disaster relief missions. So when her five-year relationship ends right before she left for a mission trip to a typhoon-stricken town in Iloilo, she tries not to make a big deal out of it. How can she be broken up about a breakup when she’s with people who literally lost everything?
But now that she’s back, all Faith wants is for her life to go back to normal and have people stop looking at her with pity. Never mind that she still has a lot of questions about the breakup, or that she feels a tiny ache every time her ex comes up in conversations. She’s okay now, and happily distracted by Nico Tamayo, the attractive new guy at work.
With new possibilities in the horizon, Faith thinks she is well on her way to moving on. But when her past comes calling back to her, will all the good things in her present be enough to keep her on the path? Or will she finally learn that there was more to heartbreak and recovery than what she knows?
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About the Author:
Ana Tejano has been in love with words and writing ever since she met Elizabeth Wakefield when she was in Grade 3. She has contributed several non-fiction pieces in print and online publications, and has been blogging for years. When she’s not writing, she works as a communications manager for a payroll outsourcing firm, and serves in CFC Singles for Christ in every other time that she doesn’t spend reading or sleeping. She lives in Metro Manila and is also known by another name in her other circles (but it’s not a secret identity, really).
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