More Than a Friend - Shay Quinn - Bog

idioStylez Publications very own Shay Quinn is introducing a new boss family into the urban fiction game. Ari Childers is a shy, young girl who had a rough start to life. Losing her mother at a young age, and being left to be raised by her abusive father, Ari felt as if she had no one and she was simply existing in a world that she felt she had no place in. Kyra, her best friend, was the only person Ari felt she could relate to. She had been there with her since what Ari felt was day one. That is until she met Thomas "Tee" Anderson. Tommy doted on Ari's distinctive beauty and innocence, entered her life, turning it upside down. From rescuing Ari from her broken home, to his family taking her in so she could finish school, he found himself in love with her. So, in love that he decided in order for him to keep her he had to keep their relationship platonic. Being next in line to take over the family business; what was known as The Anderson Association or T.A.A, which was one of the most powerful drug cartels in the east coast, Tommy knew that his dangerous lifestyle, and his need for attention by any woman willing to give it, felt that was his only way to protect her. Her feelings and life. That is until she started dating Malik.Finding herself living life based on what everyone around her thought she should do, how she should be living, who she should and shouldn't be dating and who she could and couldn't be friends with, Ari wasn't happy. She felt herself feeling alone and existing just like she'd felt when she'd first lost her mother. Now that Ari's father is back searching for her, what will Ari do when she finds the world that she once lived lavishly, and happily in is starting to fall apart? Finding herself pregnant, and losing everyone close to her Ari is stuck. Will she live, exist or simply lose it all including her life?