Review: Pieces of a Broken Heart

Pieces of a Broken Heart by Samantha Conley
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads
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(view spoiler)[Her fucking buddy is her brother-in-law. Brother of her late husband. I thought it was strange and I did not like it. Yuck! (hide spoiler)]

“Danielle, it’s only two years. The day of graduation I will be here to pick you up and take you back to Nashville with me.”

“How could I forget you? You’re my forever girl. I’ll always find my way home to you.”

“Yeah, he’d never have fucked you in the bathroom if he’d known you were married,” slurs Mark Orr, my bass player, and friend, as he staggers into a nearby table,

“Look, it concerns the label with all the negative press you’ve been getting here lately. Normally it’s any press is good press but since it came out that the woman involved was married it’s tarnishing your shine, so to speak,” he explains.

Country music fans like their stars to be wholesome, good old boys. Not a home wrecker.”

“Home?” I sputter. I’ve avoided the place for the last fourteen years.

Danielle. Lord, I haven’t thought about her in years.

I made a decision that changed the course of my life. One that didn’t include blue-green eyes and a sultry smile.

“People actually want to stay here?” I ask, disbelief dripping from my words. “Not everyone wants to run off the second they can, Zach,” she replies, her voice ripe with disapproval. “Some people want to remain close to their families.”

“I’ve been busy.” “Too damn busy to even visit your parents? Come home for Christmas? Is that too damn much to ask?”

The girl I loved and promised to come back for, taking her hopes and dreams with me. And left in the cold without a word later on.

“Zach, you haven’t given a shit about anything that goes on with the town for over a decade.”

“Exactly. You’re so self-absorbed that you don’t care about anything else.

“Why would you and Mom babysit?” “Do you think just because you abandoned Danielle that we did? That girl meant a lot to us, still does.”

“I didn’t forget, I couldn’t. But when I left, things changed, I changed.” “But did it make you a better man?”

“He left and never came back.”

“Why suddenly do you care where she is? It’s not like you gave a damn before.”

“When you’re not acting like a complete and utter jackass, I will be. But how you treated Dani? I’m gonna be on her side.”

But, man, the way you left her and then didn’t say a word was cold-hearted as hell.”

“Maybe I took the easy way out.” “There is no fucking maybe. You at least owed her a damn phone call or something.”

“Dude, I may not have seen you but a handful of times when I’ve come up to Nashville, but I’ve seen your interviews and what they write in the magazines. You come off as an arrogant, know it all whose shit doesn’t stink. If this is how you get treated regularly, I can see how it all went to your head.” “Tell me how you really feel,” I mutter.

“That asshole has some nerve showing his face here.” “It’s his home too, Jessa.”

“You can take your damn apology and shove it up your ass.” Her chair scrapes loudly across the floor when she stands. “Goodbye, Zach.”

“But she’s meant for bigger things,” I argue. “Her talent is wasted here.” “According to who? You? Who made you the one to make that decision?” Dad bites out. “You lost that right when you left her and never came back.”

Did she wait until I came back to town to start dating? Is she rubbing in my face what I lost when I left town? Did she have to pick such a damn good-looking guy?

“But you’ll boink your brother-in-law.” “That’s complicated, and it’s also over. We agreed that we need to quit using each other like that.”

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