She’s trying to move on, but the past won’t let her go.
I fell in love once.
It was a big mistake, but the biggest mistake of all was staying with him.
He pushed me around. He cheated and treated me like trash.
I don’t feel sorry for myself, because I let him.
But no more.
I moved out. I’m saving my stripper’s salary for an education that will get me somewhere better.
But breaking the chains of a shitty past isn’t easy. He says I owe him. He says we aren’t done. I don’t care what he says anymore.
I do care about Adam.
But my history tells me I’m not the best judge of men. And the fact Adam’s been married four times tells me he probably isn’t a safe choice.
I need safe. I need better. I need out.
If the past is any indication of my future, getting out isn’t going to be easy.
Adam
I couldn’t
decide what was harder to look at: Roxie looking shaken and soaking wet with
blood on her face, or Roxie being engulfed by my jacket.
Both sights were
practically impossible to see, for very different reasons.
When she rushed
into the Mad Hatter tonight, my eyes went right to her. I always knew when
Roxie was around. I felt her before I ever saw her. It didn’t matter if we were
in the same room or not, her presence was never lost on me.
It wasn’t every
night she came in looking like she’d fallen out of a boat in the middle the
sea. Her hair was wet and tangled, her clothes saturated and plastered to her
lithe frame, and her shoes were soaked through.
At first I
thought it might be kind of cute, until she went for the vodka. Roxie didn’t
drink on the job; she was the most professional stripper I’d ever had in this
club. So when she retrieved the vodka and downed it without a second thought, I
knew something was wrong.
And then I saw
the blood on her lip.
It made me
pissed and suspicious. I knew her ex was a loser, and my stomach tightened to
think maybe he’d gotten hold of her again. But I knew better. I knew Roxie
wasn’t back with him. I paid attention to her, more than she realized.
And yeah, maybe
I checked with Harlow every once in a while.
I wished there
was more I could do, but if she insisted it was only an accident, I would take
her at her word.
For now.
As soon as I
banked the raging protective instincts she always brought out in me, I noticed
how see-through her saturated dress was. I noticed the hard pebbles in the
middle of her fucking perfect tits. How was a man supposed to keep control of
the brain in his head and in his pants when she was walking around looking like
that?
The misery in
her eyes was my control. She was clearly having a rough night, and she was
freezing. Covering her up with my coat would not only save my cock from
embarrassing me, but also give her some comfort.
Too bad she
looked just as sexy drowning in my clothes as she did standing there wet.
Beautiful women
were part of my job. Mostly naked, gyrating women were something I saw every
single night in this club. In my twenty-five years, I’d seen a lot of hot
bodies and sexy females. Hell, I’d been married to four of them.
But it didn’t
matter because not one of those women knew how to hold my attention.
Except Roxie.
From the minute
I first saw her walk into the Mad Hatter looking for a job, I knew there was
something different about her. Something that no other woman I’d met had.
I still didn’t
know exactly what that something was, and it didn’t matter. Even unidentified,
she still completely captivated me.
Besides writing, Cambria loves a caramel latte, staying up late, sleeping in, and watching movies. She considers math human torture and has an irrational fear of chickens (yes, chickens). You can often find her running on the treadmill (she’d rather be eating a donut), painting her toenails (because she bites her fingernails), or walking her chorkie (the real boss of the house).
Cambria has written within the young adult and new adult genres, penning many paranormal and contemporary titles. Her favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense. A few of her most recognized titles are: Text, Torch, Tryst, Masquerade, and Recalled.
Cambria Hebert owns and operates Cambria Hebert Books, LLC.
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