title: Arsen: a broken love story
author:  Mia Asher 
description: My name is Mia Asher. I'm a writer, a hopeless romantic, a wanderer, a dreamer, a cynic, and a believer. And, oh yesI might be a bit crazy - but who isn't?
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  Pieces of Me
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Book Forty-One of The Forever and Ever Series
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  E. L. Todd
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  Silke
  
  
  Abby and I were playing with her toys on the floor in front of the TV. Her
  dark hair was getting so long and soon I would need to cut it. A pink bow
  pinned her hair back slightly, keeping it off her face.
  
  
  Abby played with her unicorn. “Silke?”
  
  
  “Yes, sweetheart?” Arsen and I both called her that more often than her real
  name.
  
  
  “Is Daddy broken?”
  
  
  My heart stopped beating as I processed her words. “Broken?”
  
  
  “Yeah…he’s not the same.” She brushed the pony’s hair with a brush. “He’s
  different.”
  
  
  My heart fell into my stomach and I felt sick. “He lost someone he cares
  about. He’s just having a hard time adjusting.”
  
  
  “When Mommy left I was really sad. Is Daddy sad?”
  
  
  “Yeah…” Arsen was a loose cannon and I didn’t know what to do. He was distant
  with me, and every time he came home he reeked of scotch. He was const