ROMANCE: BIKER ROMANCE: Say you Love Me,(Interracial BWWM, Alpha Male, Bad Boy, Second Chance Romance) (Contemporary New Adult & College Reluctant Romance) by Bella Sparks

Author:Bella Sparks [Sparks, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

“And how many boxers read Joyce Carol Oates?” Gilly inquired, scrutinizing her over the rims of his half-glasses. “Does Mantoro read?

“That’s low. Boxers aren’t stupid. You’re believing a stereotype. Mick Mantoro reads; how do you think he graduated from Princeton?”

“That’s your story,” he countered. “Get it right and you’ll make your reputation.”

But as she waited outside the gym, shivering in the January cold, she wasn’t thinking of her reputation. She was thinking of the defeat that had ended her father’s career. He’d been 34, nine years older than 25-year old Mantoro. Carlos Jimenez didn’t have an Ivy League business degree or the building blocks of a financial empire. He had an 11-year old daughter that he’d raised as a single parent since his wife’s death from cancer when Carlita Hanover Jimenez was in the fourth grade. All his wealth had gone into his wife’s medical care and when he lost the match, he lost his endorsements as well. Back in New York, in the small house in Queens where he’d grown up, Carlos Jimenez had been given a job as the celebrity voice of a car dealership. He was a mentor to young boxers and he was never more comfortable than when he was in the gym where he’d trained in his youth. Carli had gone to college based on her grades, but she knew that if she hadn’t won scholarships, her father would have found a way for her to get an education. “That’s what your mother wanted,” he told her. And what Hilary Hanover wanted for her daughter, Carlos Jimenez was going to make sure she got, even if she was no longer alive to see it.

The gym door opened. This wasn’t a run-down gym like the one her father frequented, the one where she’d spent her after-school hours while her father gave boxing tips to the young men starting out. This gym was posh. Wearing a ski jacket and boots, Mick Mantoro came out into the cold weather, putting on leather gloves. He saw her huddled in the entranceway.

“Miss Hanover?” he asked. “Why didn’t you come inside? I didn’t know you were waiting out here. I thought you must be running late.”

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