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

I made my way downstairs, my heart beating a mile a minute at the free-wheeling of my mind. I had allowed myself to go back into that dark memory. Rocking like a little kid who didn’t know how to cope.

If it hadn’t been for Ms. Jenkins…

She’d heard noises coming from our house and watched as my uncle jog up the street in the park’s direction. Ms. Jenkins rightly guessed he had been in search of me and she’d called the police. I had left a note for my mom after all…

Now… now besides the horrible memory of what happened to my uncle, I have to endure what will become a new one. The one where I run into Axel. It can’t be one of the many that I envisioned. Not with his pretty, petite girl in tow.

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