Rough Rowdy Reckless (RRR #1) by Kimball Lee

Author:Kimball Lee [Lee, Kimball]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B00WBXHLRO
Publisher: Churn Romance Publishing
Published: 2015-05-01T23:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

Gigi…

Maybe there’s a special god for love and desire. If so, he or she is certainly smiling on me this week. I step out of the bathtub, smooth lotion onto my freshly-shaved legs, brush my teeth, make sure my hair looks adequately messy-but-beautiful, and add a touch of Benetint to my cheeks and lips before I climb back into Jon-Wylder’s bed. Sometimes I hate that I’m like my mother when it comes to vanity, and I guess I should be grateful to her for my looks and my trust fund, but thank goodness that’s all I got from her.

My mother, Wendy Walsh, former cast member of Filthy Rich in Tinseltown, and now the star of Wendy In Wonderland, nearly ruined my faith in love and men forever. She’s gone through nine husbands and one brief-and-regrettable same-sex relationship in the course of my twenty-two years on the planet. When I was ten she gave me a picture of my father but I know it’s not really him, she probably had one of the maids buy it at a flea market or maybe she stole from her roommate in prep-school. Wendy isn’t good about telling the truth, and honestly, she probably has no idea which one of her assorted lovers did the deed that resulted in my birth.

It has taken years for me to get past her brainwashing drivel about how men are nothing but ‘weak self-absorbed pond scum’ and relationships should be avoided at all cost. My mother has ruined so many parts of my psyche that I’ve literally lost count. Wendy is a celebrated beauty—Miss California, Mrs. California, Miss Who Gives A Fuck (Okay, I made that one up)—and I look enough like her to be her clone. But never once has she acknowledged the fact or spoken one uncritical word to me. I was voted Most Beautiful for four years in a row at Beverly Hills High School, and each and every time she would say something like, “My goodness, can’t they see any of your flaws? They’re just so obvious, Gigi, hopefully you’ll grow out of this awkward stage before you’re past your prime.”

No matter how hard I try, I cannot get her cold-as-ice, disapproving voice out of my head. So I play the part for Scarlet and Penn, act like I date nonstop when I’m really sitting alone at Starbucks indulging in my caffeine and online shopping addiction, and finding a glimmer of joy in maxing-out Wendy’s credit cards. Boys at school, men I meet at social gatherings, they like to ogle my face and body and ask me for a date, sometimes I accept but I always find a reason to back out at the last minute. Wendy really did a number on me and maybe none of those men were strong enough or smart enough to see that I was Rapunzel locked in her lonely tower. Jon-Wylder was and is. He rescued me, for this week anyway, and even if we only last for a while, he’s broken through the barriers I built around my body and heart.

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