Southern Rocker Showdown by Ginger Voight

Author:Ginger Voight [Voight, Ginger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ivy Lane Media, LLC.
Published: 2014-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Very few things shocked Gaynell Hollis or took her by surprise. She had learned a long time ago to will her own life into existence, controlling every aspect with the wave of her hand like a magical queen. In fact, she rather fancied herself a queen. She had started out humbly but married well, lifting her right out of poverty to sit atop the upper class in a throne of her very own making.

For some this might have been a stopping point, but not Gaynell. She had always been driven to do more, to reach higher… it simply wasn’t in her nature to stop. Her mind was always working, figuring out which strategy to employ next to reach whatever goal she had pinned at the top of her to-do list at the time.

She was rock solid and immovable. That was her nature, a formidable woman who knew how to make things happen. She was the envy of everyone she knew.

But every now and then she was faced with the stark reality that she was, in fact, a complete fraud. She had worried for years that people would see she didn’t belong in the upper echelon of Austin’s elite. Deep down, she was still that welfare baby who had started out scrubbing toilets for a living, who finally finagled her way into singing and playing piano at a fancy hotel. There she began to rub elbows with some of the richest boys Austin had to offer. She batted her eyelids and called them all sugar, until one of them finally opened the door to his fancy car and invited her in.

She married well if not happily. Her marriage to Ty Hollis was more of a business merger, like everything else in his life. He was just as calculating as she was, and the fact was he needed to marry pronto if he wanted to gain access to the trust set aside for him from his grandparents. He met Gaynell and was immediately enamored. He had her in his bed within a week, and in front of an altar within six months, which got his parents off his back to finally take a wife.

She began her life as a pampered socialite, where Ty worked overtime to turn her into a wife fitting of a Hollis. His faith was rewarded when he realized that she would never be happy living the country club life, hosting benefits and spitting out heirs to his fortune. She had a keen mind and a fierce business sense that earned his respect and, ultimately, his love. Ty had defended her against the barbs of his affluent (and snobbish) mother whenever she tried to accuse Gay of social climbing. It was exactly what she did. He knew it. She knew it. Her in-laws knew it.

It was the main reason he had purchased Southern Nights for her to run, so they could finally prove she was more than that.

It had worked for a long, long time. By the time her mother-in-law passed away, she respected Gaynell, even if she didn’t particularly like her.

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