Damaged Goods by Dane Cynthia

Author:Dane, Cynthia [Dane, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2016-10-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

TWO MONTHS LATER

Sylvia

Sylvia stared at the note her roommate left tacked to the refrigerator one early Monday morning. Posey had already gone to her classes, but Sylvia had arrived home from yet another riveting shift at Decades. With her wallet stuffed full of dollar bills and her hips sore from an untimely fall on her stage, Sylvia attempted to parse the words in front of her.

“Your rent is going up a hundred bucks in three months.”

An extra hundred bucks a month? Fucking joy.

Sylvia didn’t want to even think about it right now. She dragged her ass upstairs to her room and collapsed, morning sunlight already in her window. She had gone to the 24-hour grocery store near Decades to get some food for the next couple of weeks – the last paycheck, plus tips, had been good to her. What wasn’t good was getting off work at five in the morning, getting groceries, and then standing around waiting for the bus that would take her to her other bus connection. By the time she got home, it was already seven-thirty in the morning.

“A girl needs her beauty sleep,” she mumbled. Sylvia could have also done with some sex. Well, maybe not right this instance. I’m too tired for sex.

But would it be too much to ask for a good man to cuddle up with?

Halfway up the stairs, Sylvia thought of Joseph, the man she had no chance to ever spend the night with. And now he had straight up disappeared.

Last she saw him was the night of the botched investigation. Sylvia had handed over her bugged ring and received an escort to a hotel, which was her home for almost a week while a security detail ensured nobody on Sheen’s payroll tried to get to her. It soon became apparent that, even though he was willing to cause her harm in the damned moment, Sheen was not going to waste his resources or thoughts on her. Why would he? She was nothing to him. A woman he was going to have sex with and then forget. Someone he could conveniently use to find out that there was an undercover operation against him. Why would Alexander Sheen want anything to actually do with Sylvia Rogers once they parted ways?

Still, it was kind of Genevieve Stone to anticipate the potential need of protecting Sylvia. She was only surprised that Joseph wasn’t attached to her as part of his “punishment.” Because being assigned to protect your lover for a week is really a punishment.

Apparently, however, they were no longer lovers. Or at least Sylvia never heard from him again. No calls. No notes. No showing up at her place of work. No explanation.

Sylvia attempted to shrug it off. Oh, look. Another man who was starting to make her feel things and then ripped them away! Whatever. She would get over it, like she managed to walk away from Maxwell Carlisle after he was exposed for being the philandering ass-crack he was.

But it hurt.

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