With the Last Goodbye
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Keep it completely and surrender to it.
Because Josephine Faulkner, her heart, and love was the part of him he had been missing for so many years.
He had been missing La Vie En Rose.
And he would never let her go again.
His heart made that lifelong promise as he kissed his beautiful girlfriend.
Because Maxwell Sheridan had it all, and he couldn’t wait to spend the rest of his life with Josephine Faulkner.
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Atomic number: 8
Name of chemical element: Oxygen
Symbol: O
Every theory has a test subject—even between best friends.
The pact: Stanford.
The betrayal: AJ attending Duke.
The reason: She did something stupid like fall in love with Evan.
The problem: Evan’s not ready to let this betrayal go so easily.
The solution: Find AJ, and fix them before it’s too late.
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PROLOGUE I
AJ
Before I left for college I made him a promise that I’d meet him in LA after his Vegas trip. I promised we’d drive to Stanford together and we’d remain best friends all through college and nothing would change.
We’d be the same.
I broke all those promises.
I moved into my dorm room at Duke the minute I was supposed to meet him.
I traded California sun for North Carolinian clarity.
Because I needed a lot of clarity to forget Evan Gilmore.
It doesn’t help that I carry this one picture of us wearing Colorado Rockies baseball caps when we’re, by default, Red Sox fans. We thought we’d go unnoticed and his brother would never see. Too bad we were on the jumbo screen seconds after we sat down.
It’s the only picture of us I brought with me to North Carolina.
It’s a picture that represented a happier time.
A time where I was content with being known as Evan’s best friend, unaware that I would fall in love with him and ruin everything about us.
Absolutely everything.
How could anyone be so unaware?
So tragically unaware that when someone looks at you, it’s nothing but love they plead in your eyes?
Your love.
It changed.
I can’t remember when.
But I can remember the exact moment it started to hurt being Evan’s best friend.
He would look at me and all I saw was his sisterly love for me.
He adored me and it wasn’t enough.
Not anymore.
There was no lust.
No desire.
No want of my love for him to keep.
No want for me.
No need for me.
He took away my dreams of MIT, so I took away his dreams of us at Stanford and enrolled to Duke.
I needed freedom.
I needed to know who I was without him.
I needed to be away from the memories of us being us.
I won’t let him find me.
No one but my parents and his brother know that I ended up in North Carolina.
Maybe I should have loved his brother.
Maybe I should have been a cliché and fallen in love with the Red Sox pitcher who always loved me, too.
Maybe I should have known it would all end the way it did.
For years, I kept my promises to Evan.
For years, I kept his secrets.
For years, I continued to promise him my life.
Promises, promises.
I would break them all the moment he told me that I was the most important person in his world because I was his best friend.
I should have known that I would only ever be his best friend.
I would never be more.
He would never love me.
And that was the worst part.
Because I still held onto hope that he might, even when I knew he wouldn’t.
So I chose Duke and left him at Stanford.
The Theory of Unrequited
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It’s crazy. Absolutely crazy that this is it. The end of the Thirty-Eight Series. My final words to express how thankful and grateful I am to this beloved series and to YOU.
Because without you and your love for this series, it wouldn’t be a series.
I dedicated this book to my readers because we started this series together and it only feels right that we end it together.
Six years ago, I came up with the idea of Noel and Clara.
Their story wouldn’t leave me.
Their story became Thirty-Eight Days.
And their story paved way for Josie and Max.
I know Josie and Max’s story wasn’t easy. It was emotional with all their ups and downs. But there was no one out there as perfect for Max as Josie, and no one as perfect for Josie than Max.
Thank you for being patient with their story.
Thank you for being patient as they made their way to La Vie En Rose.
So for the last time for this series, I need to thank my family. For their undying support of my career. For always being supportive and being by my side as I continue to write stories for the world to read.
Thank you to Leslie, my Ace gang. You can finish the rest of the sentence … fill in the blanks. (Also, thank you for all your help with making graphics and some of my covers … and spelling. I’m still embarrassed.)
Thank you to my dogs, Curly and Chloe. My partners who sit and wait patiently as I tackle deadlines. I love you both.
To Jaycee Ford. For always championing me to be my best. For always believing in me and seeing the brighter future that I don’t always see for myself. I am so lucky to have you as my best friend.
To my beta readers, Danielle and Tarsh. Thank you both for reading Max and understanding Max.
To Anna, thank you for helping translate With the Last Goodbye. Ich liebe dich, Anna.
As always, and forever, Najla Qamber of Najla Qamber Designs. For always making my covers a perfect representation of the story inside. Max and Josie’s was no exception. Thank you for all that you do, Naj!
My editor, Jenny Sims. Thank you for editing all of my books. For putting your touches to make them so perfect. Thank you for always being there and for being an amazing editor.
Emily and the team at E.M. Tippetts Book Designs, thank you all for your hard work and making my books look so beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
Veronica Adams, my publicist. You are a champion. Thank you for getting my name, my brand, and my stories out there into the world. Working with you has been an honour. I can’t wait to continue to work with you to bring the next book out there. And thank you for giving the world Max.
Thank you to the authors who have always been there for me and who I look up to highly, M.E Carter, Veronica Larsen, Nikki Sloane, Jaycee Ford, Carmen Jenner, and Lauren K. McKellar.
To the amazing bloggers who helped promote the Goodbye books. Thank you for your hard work, time, and dedication. I couldn’t do this without you all. Thank you for always adding my work to your amazing blogs. You are all heroes to me.
My Lenatics. The beautiful souls who are always there for me. You are all so wonderful and I am so blessed to have such amazing readers like you all. I love you. I love every single one of you. You are the very best of me and always will be. Thank you for your love and your support.
And to you, whether this is your first book or you�
��re a long-time reader, thank you.
Thank you for trusting me with your time and your attention.
Thank you for reading my book.
Without you, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Thank you all for changing my life.
For bettering it.
I am not me without you.
Until the next book and adventure together.
Love,
Len
Len Webster is a romance-loving Melburnian with dreams of finding her version of ‘The One.’ But until that moment happens, she writes. Having just graduated with her BBusCom from Monash University, Len is now busy writing her next romance about how a boy met a girl, and how they fell completely and hopelessly in love.
She is also not a certified explorer, but she’s working on it.
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With the Last Goodbye
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Published: Len Webster 2018
Editing: Jenny Sims
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