Misadventures in the Cage by Sarah Robinson

Author:Sarah Robinson [Robinson, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642632118
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

Chapter Twenty-One

One year later…

Josie looked in the mirror and took a deep breath. Her skin glowed with the highlight she’d just applied to her cheekbones and the gold shimmer around her eyes. It was the exact look she was going for, and admittedly, she felt rather pretty.

It wasn’t that she didn’t normally feel pretty, but it was difficult living in her skin at times. She wasn’t the smallest woman out there and had the kind of curves that men killed for but women looked down on. It was a constant struggle to find parts of herself that she liked, and she completely blamed her former life on television and social media for her insecurity. Once upon a time, she’d been constantly judged on her appearance and how she looked. But now? People rarely paid attention to her anymore.

With her social media presence at zero and her focus having been on school for the last year, she had disappeared from the public eye entirely. Occasionally, a reporter would pop in here and there to see how she was doing and if there was any new information they could scoop from her. Each time, they came up empty. Her life just wasn’t the exciting roller coaster ride it had been before, and she was grateful for that. With that previous excitement had come stress and drama, none of which she needed or wanted anymore.

Turning around, she glanced back over her shoulder into the mirror and judged her dark-yellow dress. It had always been one of her favorite colors, offsetting her dark-brown skin tone perfectly. This was everything she had wanted for her graduation day.

Except for one major thing… Her family.

They’d disowned her since she’d quit the show and left Las Vegas. She’d been called a traitor to the family, as she almost cost them the entire show. The network hadn’t wanted to continue filming without her. Somehow, though, they’d managed to convince them otherwise when Xavier had started dating the adult daughter of a Real Housewife. The family’s publicity had skyrocketed once more, and the network decided not to pull the plug.

Josie, however, was completely left on the outskirts. Her family didn’t call. They didn’t write. They had never visited her in New York. It was heartbreaking, to say the least.

She thought back to a little over a year ago at this time. How different her life had been. Thoughts of Callan Walsh couldn’t help but drift across her mind. They’d only spent two weeks together, but it had felt like a lifetime. She hadn’t heard from him since her move to New York, but she hadn’t expected to. She’d been pretty clear with him that she didn’t want him to contact her or visit her.

And she appreciated that he’d respected that request.

But at the same time…her heart ached when she replayed the last time she saw him. Refusing him had been one of the most difficult things she’d ever done, and she didn’t know how to bring her heart back from that.

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