Extraits

Chapter 1

HELL YEAH, MY friend!” Penny’s voice danced over her words, and I had to hold my cell phone away from my ear. “Happy damn birthday, Brielle. Are you going to let me take you out to celebrate this year?”

I cleared my throat and lowered my voice. “No, Victor is taking me out.” He and Penny didn’t exactly see eye to eye. Okay, Victor really didn’t like her, but I would never tell her that.

“When are you going to dump that asshat anyway? He sucks. And not in the way a man should, unless things have changed in that department?”

I smiled and shook my head, though she couldn’t see me. “Sex isn’t everything, and I’m not going to dump him. He’s a good guy, you know that; he’s way better than those losers we dated in college.”

“Whatever. He hates me almost as much as your parents do.” She grumbled and then in the background I heard a pan hit the floor with a clang.

“He doesn’t hate you.” I ignored the noises of what I knew would be her morbidly bad attempt at cooking. “And they aren’t my parents. Frank is the man my mother married.” I didn’t even try to keep the bitterness out of my voice, not with Penny.