“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.

*********

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

Eva doesn’t drink or do any of typical the party fanfare. So she’s clear-minded enough to drive us back to the dorm without me having a panic attack.


“My body is a temple,” she once told me, sucking me off on a yacht in full view of her father. Well, I was in view, sitting in the captain’s chair. He’d slapped my back and said I was like the son he’d never had. Eva swallowed me whole knowing I’d have to reply, the wet clench of her throat had nothing on the sinister glint of her eyes, hidden underneath the ship’s console.


I knew Eva thought I was thanking him for her. That’s the only reason why she squeezed my thigh after, coming up for air with a Guinness to her lips to cloak the smell of me on her breath. She made sure her father drank after her. He never once said anything about the taste.


It was not with affection when she kissed my temple than on the yacht her father owned. It was a claim. A mark.


Chapter 16 : To Be The Recluse