Smiling, I knelt down on the blanket she was lying on. “Mrs. Anna Hancock…you are my best friend, my partner in crime, my reason for living, and the only thing that really matters to me. Forever only scratches the surface of how long I’ll love you.”

I wanted to stab myself in the throat for how sappy I sounded, but I meant every word, and I wanted Anna to hear them. She teared up as she whispered, “I love you too. So much…I never thought I could love anyone this much.”

I leaned down to kiss her. Our lips moved together softly, but the intensity quickly began to build and my body instantly sprang to life. Grabbing my pants out of Anna’s hands, I tossed them over the side of the roof again. We didn’t need them.

I heard about three people cursing my name, but I ignored them all. Anna was the only thing that mattered to me. She was always the only thing that really mattered, and I was never letting her go again.

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Welcome

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: There Is No Cure for Awesome

Chapter 2: The Day Awesome Died

Chapter 3: No Rest for the Awesome

Chapter 4: Will the Real Mr. Awesome Please Stand Up

Chapter 5: Meet the Awesomes

Chapter 6: And Then There Was More Awesome

Chapter 7: Oh Holy Awesome

Chapter 8: You Wish You Were as Awesome as Me

Chapter 9: To Be or Not to Be…Awesome

Chapter 10: Awesometopia

Chapter 11: Awesome Does What Awesome Needs to Do

Chapter 12: Let the Awesomeness Begin

Chapter 13: Welcome to Awesometown, Population: Me

Chapter 14: Awesomesauce. For Best Results, Add Me

Chapter 15: When Awesome Attacks

Chapter 16: You Heard Right, I Am That Awesome

Chapter 17: Awesome Strikes Back

Chapter 18: The Price of Awesomeness

Chapter 19: Not That Awesome

Chapter 20: Now What?

Chapter 21: Reality

Chapter 22: Hardship

Chapter 23: What to Do?

Chapter 24: Hope

Chapter 25: A Chance

Chapter 26: We Can’t All Win

Chapter 27: Reconnecting

Chapter 28: Winners and Losers

Epilogue: Awesome Returns

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