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.

alcohol and raw indulgence. Naked bodies

up with Tara, her eyes darting away from the grim spectacle around

fall into the same hell as

if she had no idea who Cole really

The Haven, the garden was serene and soft under the glow of warm lights. Flowers glimmered under the changing hues of cool and warm

shimmered under reflected boat lights, its surface alive

contentedly in its little cat bed beside her,

scene was peaceful

letting them know she had decided to

she'd send a six and a half feet teddy

was furious. "What the hell? I thought you'd married a husband who was doting and romantic! But now, he's using your birthday to

him pegged wrong. Business marriages are

a music lover, was firmly on the "love over logic" side of the argument. Her tirade blared through the phone, practically as loud as a

her husband, a glass of blue cocktail was silently

She looked up.

in simple loungewear, sat down quietly on the recliner beside

thought. "Ruth is so