“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 probably should have warned you that my uncle was dropping me off.”


Parker was wreathed in a white light and looked a little scruffy with the measly bits of hair on his chin he was calling a goatee, but he looked good. If only he would stop twinning and—


“Ermmm.” It wasn’t the most articulate thing I’ve ever uttered but it got the point across.


Parker smiled, eyes a level of sadness I’d expected, and helped me up with some minor cursing.


“Fuck, Wes.” He was kneeling on the floor of the bar’s breakroom/backroom. I was spread out on the leather couch they had back there, full of bullet hole buckshot and knife slashes. Parker leaned back on his haunches, in that Slavic squat we’d practiced but I didn’t have the flexibility for. “What have you been eating.”


“Doctors wanted me to keep my weight up since I’d lost so much in rehab.” I swung my legs over, quick to stand up, only for the world to get wobbly as nausea set in. “Oh.”


Chapter 45 : Apologies