Words with Benefits

Introduction: Book 1: Words with Benefits: The Plot Twists We Never Expected

This isn’t a fairytale. It’s a beautiful train wreck of real emotions, raw truths, and humor.

Told with brutal honesty, wit, and just enough awkward laughter to make it bearable.

Welcome to Words with Benefits:

For some time, a quiet stirring left me unsettled. I hadn’t planned on changing my life.

The woman I had become began to feel unfamiliar.

My body was numb, my mind caged, the dullness extinguishing my once vibrant fire.

I looked up in that moment and told the universe what I wanted.

And my whole life changed.

Nothing could have prepared me for what was coming.

***Thandi*** The faithful narrator and close friend of Rory’s who walked with Rory and Bowie in a journey, not even she could believe could unfold the way it did and even left her stunned and silenced with moments she would say, “You can’t make this stuff up,” to Rory. Thandi was a true believer in these two people and said often, “I’m dying on that hill you both will be together.” And Rory would respond every single time with, “We shall see.”

“Together

Two souls who didn’t expect a second chance.

Two lives unraveling and intertwining at the exact wrong, and right time.

A love story built in the middle of chaos, held together by music, words, and the stubborn belief that even in hell… you can choose each other.

Life had plans for these two
a story that doesn’t fall apart,
even when the chapters felt like they were crumbling,
even when the darkness was thick and heavy,
when all they could do to keep from drowning
was hold onto a life preserver,
knowing the other would be there
to keep them from going under.

Life forced them both to see themselves in one another,
two sides of a coin, awakening to newer versions of who they are and the parts of them they had to leave behind.

You see,

Plot twists don’t come in quietly, they flip a table, they scream, their loud and in your face.
You swear
You laugh
You freeze
You go numb
You hide
You sit in disbelief
You cry
You wait
You plead
You let go of the steering wheel

This wild ride, as Rory continuously said, “is like a country back road,” where two people through strength and rebellious nature
found themselves feeling alive again by choosing each other.

A rare, almost unbelievable story that continues to unravel…in a nail-biting path

where no one dares to utter the words,
what’s next?”

-Thandi