Robert Hatchet

An Angsty, Single Parent Romance CALEB I came to the lake to be left alone, to lick my wounds. I wasn’t counting on neighbors and I especially wasn’t counting on her. Lucie was a little kid the last time I was here. Now she’s grown—and God, did she ever grow up—with two little kids of her own. She’s everywhere I look, no matter how hard I try to avoid her. I’d forgotten all the things I used to want, used to dream about. She’s reminding me…and making me want every last one of them again. LUCIE From the moment I first saw Caleb when I was six, I knew he belonged to me. And I knew I’d have to save him—because how else does the girl nobody wants win over the boy beloved by all? Nothing about his life or mine has gone to plan. He’s isolated and miserable. I’ve got a vindictive ex and more problems than I can count. But what hasn’t changed is this: it still feels like he’s mine. And I still think I may need to save him.

He can have any woman he wants. He wants his brother’s. Alex Sebastian is the billionaire who knows exactly how to re-launch the pop career I walked away from to raise my little sister. He knows everything, apparently, about what’s good for me. For my image. Even for my lingerie. Everywhere I turn, he’s there, smirking. I cannot stand him. So why can’t we stop sneaking around? Maybe it's his filthy, bossy mouth that does things more wicked than his insults. Maybe it's that he does know what’s good for me when he uses it—backstage before my show, during a black tie event, in another man’s living room. Because maybe deep down, I've never been the good girl the world sees, and the dirty, shameful things he makes me do are exactly what I crave. The problem? Alex isn’t the Sebastian billionaire I'm dating––I’m dating his brother.