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This Time, I Walked Away

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This Time, I Walked Away is a novel in English. Chapters 1 and 2 can be read on this site as a free preview.

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From the back cover

When Joshua Ziegler brings his student Linda Moore home through a storm, his wife Carmen says nothing. She gives up the bed, makes the tea, and watches him dry Linda's hair. She has lived this night before: the fight, Linda's flight into the ditch, the drowning, and Joshua's revenge, when he shoved Carmen and her daughter Mia into a manhole and let the water take them. Now she is back at the start of that same night, holding Mia close and keeping her voice steady.

Joshua calls Linda fragile and tells Carmen to stay in her lane, while Linda sniffles and offers to leave. Carmen only says she believes him. On the floor beside Mia, she listens to them whisper and kiss in her own bed, and covers her daughter's ears. In the morning Joshua sends her out for sweet coffee, then leaves with Linda.

Carmen looks one last time at the home she built, then packs her things and walks away with Mia, telling her they do not need Daddy anymore.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

Last time, it'd been pouring when he showed up with her in the middle of the night. Told me to crash on the floor with my daughter Mia and gave Linda the bed like it was nothing.

I lost it. Fought with him, snapped at her. She bolted, slipped into a ditch, and supposedly drowned.

Joshua said nothing. Then, one night, with the storm going wild outside, he pried…

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Contents

Chapters 1 and 2 are on this page. Chapters marked with a lock continue in the official app.

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Which chapters of This Time, I Walked Away are free?

Chapters 1 and 2 are free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 3 the book continues in the official app.

Where do I keep reading This Time, I Walked Away after chapter 2?

In the official app. Install it, enter code R12761, and the book opens where this preview stops — chapter 3.

What is This Time, I Walked Away about?

When Joshua Ziegler brings his student Linda Moore home through a storm, his wife Carmen says nothing. She gives up the bed, makes the tea, and watches him dry Linda's hair. She has lived this night before: the fight, Linda's flight into the ditch, the drowning, and Joshua's revenge, when he shoved Carmen and her daughter Mia into a manhole and let the water take them. Now she is back at the start of that same night, holding Mia close and keeping her voice steady.

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