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

For the tenth time that day, my finger hovered over Shondra's number. It was the same one. I had called and hung up more than a few times when I first moved to Chicago, blocking my number so she wouldn't know it was me.

That all stopped after I saw her at a party with Duke. At the time, I thought she had moved on, and it took me until that night to do so as well.

It had been a month since she told me I was her one and only. A month since I lost that title for good. She was dating Tony, and I had it on good authority (from Adam and Josh) he was taking her to Paris.

I threw my phone on the bed and let my body follow. Gazing up at the ceiling. I revisited the thousands of recriminations I'd been telling myself since the Baker's party.

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