Dear Jon
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There’s no longer an opportunity for that casual, accidental friendship I was wanting. I didn’t want to immediately return to the absolute commitment of everything. I didn’t want her to know that I was purposeful in my desires to see her. Because–let’s face it–I want her back.
And it’s okay for me to want her back.
If I want to get her back, I will have to formally face her. It will have to be contemplated. It will have to be planned. It will have to be premeditated. She will know I still want to work things out.
And that, too, is okay. I should be honest with her. I should stop my brain from interfering and creating these false environments for me to live within the confines of.
So what if I want Olivia Holland back? I smile, then say it aloud. “I want Olivia Holland back. I want Olivia Holland back!” Maybe it’s the heat, but I’m feeling deliriously ecstatic. I feel settled. I feel like things are falling into place, even though it’s not the place my brain thought it would be. We can work this out. And we will. And it will be easy. I have to do one little thing; follow one piece of advice my mother had given me.
I just have to follow my heart. It’s the only choice I have to make, and it’s the easiest one I’ve ever made.
If I follow my heart, good things will happen.
MORE BOOKS BY LORI L. OTTO
Emi Lost & Found series
Book One: Lost and Found
Book Two: Time Stands Still
Book Three: Never Look Back
Prequel: Not Today, But Someday
Choisie series
Book One: Contessa
Book Two: Olivia
Book Three: Dear Jon
Book Four: Livvy (coming soon)
Stephen War & Peace series
Prequel: Number 7
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SPECIAL THANKS TO
Nikki Haw, for being there when this idea to write from Jon’s point of view was born. Thank you for always brainstorming with me and for knowing my characters just as well as I do.
Daniela Conde, for being such a positive and creative person. Thank you so much for your support, and for all the graphics you’ve done for me!
Street Team Emi, for helping to spread the word about Emi and Livvy.
Angela Meyer, Christi Allen Curtis, and Katrina Boone for being very early readers of this book. Sorry you had to suffer through so many typos!
So many blogs for giving my books a little boost! There are too many of you to thank, but I know you all know how grateful I am.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Inspired by popular fiction and encouraged by close friends, Lori L. Otto returned to writing in the winter of 2008. After a sixteen-year hiatus, she rediscovered her passion for fiction and began writing what would soon become her first series: Emi Lost & Found. Although the books of Nate, Emi and Jack have concluded, other characters from the books continued their own journeys, demanding their stories be told.
Lori is currently working on two spin-off series. Contessa, the first in the Choisie series, is Lori’s fourth full-length novel, and her first foray into the Young Adult / New Adult genre.
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