Never His Second Choice Chapter 01 My mother taught me two ironclad rules for when a relationship is over: First, when a man starts planning a future without you. Second, when another woman appears at his side who understands him better than you do. I looked at my boyfriend Ethan, who’d just landed an offer
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 10 The Overpass Two years pass. I’m at my desk when my assistant comes in. Face tight. “Commissioner. Priority call. Homicide.” I take the file. And freeze. The Griffins. Mr. and Mrs. Griffin. Found dead in their home. And Shane? Missing. Because of the
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 09 Snow on My Sleeve Months pass. I work. I run the department. I do my job. I don’t think about Shane Griffin. I don’t think about that night. Or I try not to. One evening in March, I’m heading out after a long
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 08 The Hospital Three days after Christmas, Shane shows up at my office. My assistant stops him at the door. “The Commissioner is in a meeting.” “I’ll wait.” He waits four hours. When I finally come out, he’s still there. Red-eyed. Wrung out. He
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 07 The Aftermath Reeves drives me home. Doesn’t say much. At my door, he pauses. “Commissioner. For what it’s worth. I’m sorry I didn’t pick up the first time.” “If I had—” “You didn’t know, Captain. Go home. Be with your family.” “It’s Christmas.”
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 06 Commissioner It takes Reeves forty minutes. Forty minutes to pull the real arrest records, cross-reference the booking photos, and run the image from Sadie’s stream through facial recognition. He comes back into his office looking like he swallowed glass. “Commissioner. The woman in
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 05 Going Live By the time I get to my car, my phone is blowing up. Sadie’s stream is still going. She’s inside now, replaying the photos for the camera. Zooming in on the arrest record. The comments section is a war zone: “Wait,
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 04 The Sidewalk I’m standing on the front steps, pulling my coat tighter against the wind. The wine stain on my dress is already going stiff in the cold. Behind me, the door opens. Sadie’s voice carries into the night. “Oh, she’s still here?
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 03 The Photos I looked down, and my blood turned to ice. The photos showed a woman being led out of a motel in handcuffs. Wearing next to nothing. Squad cars in the background. Officers on either side. The face was mine. Sadie was
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My Boyfriend’s Childhood Sweetheart Set Me Up As An Escort Chapter 02 Small-Town Girl When I didn’t answer, Sadie went in for the kill. “Shane, honey, girls like her crawl out of the gutter and then keep hustling on the side. It’s not too late to see what she really is.” “Dump her before she
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