Two men. Two women. Two couples. Too many secrets.
Axel
I can have any woman I want, except for the one who has broken my heart more than once.
Jameson
When I fall, I fall hard. The woman I yearn for can't be mine, and if even she could be, she would never accept my secret.
Shondra
Big girls don't find love easy and it takes a special man to handle what I dish out. Too bad my soulmate hates the sight of me.
Vegas
Love has alluded me for so long, until one night, I meet the perfect stranger who turns everything around. Trouble is, he's taken.
A story filled with humor, heartbreak and angst, follow these characters on a journey to discover if love can really be everlasting.

Paying For It

/"Vegas, I’ll be back in less than a week. Home in plenty of time for your ninth birthday./" Dad circled his long russet arms around my thin frame. I squeezed him tighter. I didn’t want him to leave. Bad things happened when he left.

/"Now, come on. Be a good girl and let me go./"

I resisted... until my step-mother, Tonya, pinched me, making a tsk-sound behind her teeth. I jumped back, rubbing my upper arm. Following the direction of Tonya’s narrowed light-brown eyes, I saw the sketch of wrinkles around my Daddy’s belt line. Wrinkles I had caused.

Tonya was in charge of my father’s appearance, from packing his clothes for every trip to the cleaning of his uniforms when he was back home.

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