Get trapped in an overcrowded metro train that stunk of body odor for forty minutes due to a power problem? Check. Get caught in a sudden downpour halfway to campus with nary an umbrella in sight? Check. Maybe the fish was an odd thing to fixate on, but it prevented me from dwelling on the awfulness of my day and the hot, sticky embarrassment coating my skin. What was it with men and fish pictures, anyway? Couldn’t they choose something more creative, like cage diving with sharks? Also marine animal-centric, but less mundane.

It was enough to make a girl say fuck it and throw away sixteen dollars on one drink even though she didn’t have a full-time salary yet. I’d been stood up for the very first time by a fish-wielding Todd. I should’ve known better, yet there I was, sitting alone at The Bronze Gear, D.C.’s hottest bar, and drinking my hideously expensive vodka soda after being stood up. Double red flags if said guy’s name was Todd.

Nothing good ever came from right-swiping on a guy holding a fish on a dating app.

For a detailed list, click here or scan the code below. This story contains explicit sexual content, profanity, mild violence, and topics that may be sensitive to some readers. Theirs is a match made in hell, and when the demons from their past catch up with them, they’re faced with truths that could either save them …or destroy everything they’ve worked for. The last thing she needs is to get involved with a doctor who puts the SUFFER in insufferable…no matter how good-looking he is.īut the more she gets to know him, the more she realizes there’s more than meets the eye to the man she’s hated for so long. Outgoing and ambitious, Jules Ambrose is a former party girl who’s focused on one thing: passing the attorney’s bar exam. When their animosity explodes into one unforgettable night, he proposes a solution that’ll get her out of his system once and for all: an enemies with benefits arrangement with simple rules. The beautiful redhead has been a thorn in his side since they met, but she also consumes his thoughts in a way no woman ever has. Gorgeous, cocky, and fast on his way to becoming a hotshot doctor, Josh Chen has never met a woman he couldn’t charm-except for Jules f**king Ambrose. He hates her.almost as much as he wants her. To everyone who’s ever felt like they weren’t enough. Resemblance to actual persons and things living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.Ĭover Designer: Quirah Casey, Temptation CreationsĮditor: Amy Briggs, Briggs Consulting LLC No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review and certain other noncommercial use permitted by copyright law.

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