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

The examining room was cold and impersonal with its scuffed grey paint, hard stools, and lack of decoration. Only the doctor’s diploma hung crookedly on a bare wall. Above that was a picture of the last president. The blinds in the window had turned a tobacco yellow, and they swung back and forth with the force of the air-conditioner. Puffs of dust particles few into the air with every pass of the oscillating ceiling fan.

I switched the position of my legs for the umpteenth time. I’d been waiting for only ten minutes, but the wooden chair was uncomfortable despite my natural cushion. At least I had Vegas’s text to distract me from the news I was waiting for.

I had bought Vegas a smart phone since she didn’t have one. The Witch had forbidden it. Vee had quickly caught on to the text shortcuts but she didn’t know all of them yet, hence her question.

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