✨EXCERPT: ATLAS by Sawyer Bennett releasing January 13!
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Dear Atlas and Maddie,
If you’re reading this, I’m no longer with you, and I imagine both of you are staring morosely at each other, not sure what to do. I won’t waste time telling you I’m in a better place, because I have no clue what happens after you die. The only thing I can speak to with any surety is my unwavering faith in the two of you to continue without me. I want you to know in the end, I wasn’t scared.
A man could not have been luckier than to have you both in my corner, through all the good times and in the end, the bad.
Atlas… you’ve been my wingman since we were five. You weren’t just a friend, you were my brother. And Maddie… you were the sister I never had, and my only sadness is that I wish I’d known you longer.
Maddie, I know you’ve already agreed to take Grayce—
I don’t need to say how much that means to me, knowing that Grayce will grow up under your loving touch. You’re going to make the most amazing mother, and I hope Grayce turns out to be just like you.
But you can’t do it alone. No offense, but Grayce needs more than one person trying to fill in for me. She needs every ounce of love and support she can get. Which is where you come in, Atlas.
I need you to help Maddie raise my daughter. I want you to be her dad. She needs your steady hand, your stubborn will, your heart. Everything about the man you are—that’s what I want for her. I can’t give it to her anymore, but you can.
You’re not my brother by blood but through all of our life experience together. I trust you implicitly, and I know you’ll show up, even when it’s hard. It’s why I waited until after I was gone to ask this of you, so you couldn’t argue with me about it.
All the legal stuff is handled. Take care of her. Take care of each other. Don’t let me down.
Gray
P.S. Be nice to each other.
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