“You've got to be kidding me...”
Rolling his eyes he scoffed “just say yes. I know you need the money.”
He wasn't wrong there, but I had a feeling I was going to regret this.

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Deidra wanted to have a normal college experience just like everyone else, but the last thing she had anticipated was her fourth grade bully to come running back into her life asking her for help. Inheritance clauses, last-minute wills, and a free ticket for her undergrad years to be paid in full?
What more was there to say, except that Wes wasn’t someone easy to work with.
He was more likely going to be more trouble than the money is worth.

It Had To Be You is created by Scarlett Rossi, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

It Had to Be You

“I mean, where does that bitch get off? Fucking up your eye like that?” Manny blew three concentric smoke rings sticking his finger in the bull’s eye to make a point. “That’s just beyond evil, man! Unless…”


I pulled my shirt over my head before he could even give me the stink eye. I already felt shitty enough, I didn’t need Manny adding to that.


“Wes, you didn’t give her the old ‘catch and release right’? Tell me you didn’t deserve it?”


“Oh, he deserved it,” Cameron—the snitch—popped up out of the water, hair plastered to his face, prescription goggles fogged.


He doggy paddled toward the shallow end so he could sit on the steps, winded like a man double his age. If he wasn’t such a chameleon of a man and managed to charm everyone around him, he probably would have gotten picked on himself when we were kids.


Chapter 12 : Haunted