“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

“As long as we don’t move, we shouldn’t be harmed.” Molly put her broad hands up, palms out toward the group of glaring bikers. The whole bar was looking at us like we stole something. People even paused mid-stroke in billiards just to eye us down. “I’ve seen this once with bears. Very territorial creatures.”


“With the bears.” Alice had nearly climbed on my shoulders as we all slowly backed toward the bar’s wrought iron gate. “With you and the bears. How did it end?”


“Oh, I don’t tangle bears,” Molly admitted. “My cousin showed me this video off YouTube. It was a video of his neighbor who’d accidentally gotten between a mother and her cub. He died before the ambulance could make it.”


“Minnesota was that supposed to be uplifting?” Ramona hissed as one of the bikers—the biggest one in the leather-clad flock—broke away from his brothers to give us a look. “Because it fucking wasn’t and I was hoping not to die today.”


Chapter 41 : I Shall Not Be Ignored