Game Over No Second Chances

Chapter 355

Wendy stood in the rain, and for a moment it felt like the downpour wasn't water, but years of humiliation crashing down on her shoulders. She couldn't breathe under the weight of it all.

She wanted to run away.

Just as she turned to flee, a hand gripped her wrist.

It was Tara. No one knew when she had come back out but she dragged Wendy through a different entrance to the club.

The rain was now a heavy downpour.

"You're lucky," Tara said. "Getting humiliated by Sarah just earned you a bigger opportunity."

"What?"

"Cole's interested in you. Do his dirty work, and you'll get far more than Sarah ever could."

Tara pulled open a hidden door. Inside was a world of smoke, teasing laughter, and the clinking of glasses.

raw indulgence. Naked bodies and broken women sprawled

hurried to keep up with Tara, her eyes darting away from the

as those women. She had to

had no idea who Cole really

night, at The Haven, the garden was serene and soft under the glow of warm lights. Flowers

reflected boat lights, its surface alive under the glow of distant

second-floor terrace recliner. Snuggie curled contentedly in its little cat

peaceful and quiet-almost

Wynne and Ruth, letting them know she had decided to move her

teddy bear as a gift, but would deliver her

thought you'd married a husband who was doting and romantic! But now, he's using your birthday to save his

pegged wrong. Business marriages are

lover, was firmly on the "love over logic" side of the argument. Her tirade blared

even defend her husband, a glass of blue cocktail was silently placed

She looked up.

simple loungewear, sat down quietly on the recliner beside hers,

crap," she thought. "Ruth