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.

and raw indulgence. Naked bodies and broken women

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

would not fall into the same hell as those women. She had to seize every

she had no idea who

the glow of warm lights. Flowers glimmered under the changing

reflected boat lights, its surface

terrace recliner. Snuggie curled contentedly in its little cat bed beside her,

scene was peaceful and quiet-almost too

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

busy with work, replied quickly saying that she'd send a six and a half feet teddy bear as a gift, but would deliver her birthday

however, was furious. "What the hell? I thought you'd married a husband who was doting and romantic! But now,

type. I had him pegged wrong. Business marriages

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

her husband, a glass of blue cocktail was silently placed on the

She looked up.

in simple loungewear, sat down quietly on the recliner

crap," she thought.