By K.L. Donn
Yes, we can all have our own happily-ever-after.
After spending time in prison for assaulting her brother’s fiancée, Ashley is full of remorse and pain. She wants to redeem herself, but she finds herself in a downward spiral and isn’t sure how to move on from her past mistakes.
Declan Hart was hired to find out what Ashley was hiding. He finds a girl who was contradictory to what he has learned about her, and instead, he found her broken and filled with self-hatred. He then made it his mission to break her from her self-imposed prison.
I made her world a living hell, and when mine turned to shit, she became the support I never knew I would need.
–KL Donn, Happily Ever After
Coming into the first few pages of Ashley’s story, I had a suspicion that the author was not just writing fiction–she was reaching out, and giving us a glimpse into her life.
And then came this line…
“Zach has a right to be worried. There is something wrong with me. So wrong, I don’t think I’ll ever be right again…”
Reading “Happily Ever After” was a bit hard for me.
I was once bullied.
I hated myself for being weak, for running away from the problem, which, unfortunately, was a pastor who thought he could use his “God-given” right to raise a hand at me. Finding that I had no support system then, I left. I got into the wrong crowd, made some bad decisions that to this day I still regret. However, I survived it, I am now in a better place, in a better frame of mind to help others who, like me, were, or are, being bullied.
KL Donn’s Happily Ever After came at a time when the Internet was abuzz with a game tricking kids into harming themselves. Social media has evolved into a monster, allowing, in the guise of freedom of expression, the bullies to tear into everyone’s psyche, making us doubt our preconceived notions of what we should be.
It is up to us then, the adults, those who know better, those who long for a peaceful co-existence with one another, to teach the younger generation, to guide them, to discern right from wrong … that to live means not to fight one another, but to work together for a brighter future.
KL Donn said that you, the reader, would either love or hate Ashley and Declan’s story. I beg you to read it well, read between the lines, and find the gems that she had imparted in this well-written book. Read it to the end and know that bullies, and of course victims, can still have a happily ever after.
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