Handsome Devil

205 Pages·2004·0.97 MB·English

by  Argent Ava

Handsome Devil
by Ava Argent
Handsome Devil copyrighted October 2013
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Dedication:

To Saranna DeWylde: You encouraged, cheered, threatened, and supported me
even when any other sane being would have given up. This is for you.

To my parents: You never thought it was weird when I daydreamed and you
thought it was funny when I told you some off the wall story. You raised me to
reach beyond conventional borders. You have my eternal gratitude.

Chapter One

I used to think that all a couple needed to make love work was poetry and
promises.
I was wrong.
I've had plenty of both. Badly ripped off sonnets from old Will
Shakespeare (seriously, the man wrote way more than Romeo and Juliet. Take a
hint.). Guarantees that ranged from turning my library books in on time for me to
allusions to marriage. None of that worked out.
Instead I have a bar and more ex boyfriends in my past than I care to
admit.
Oh. I also have an ex girlfriend. It was an experiment that worked for a
while. She was great. Me? Not so much.
The bar is more like a pub. I traveled a little instead of going to college
full time. One thing I could nearly always count on was an Irish pub to hang out
at, no matter what city I happened to be in. Don't ask me why that is. It just
happens.
I liked that warm, living room feel you could get in a pub. If you stay in
one long enough you'll walk out with a friend. A big difference from the hooking
up I was becoming bored with in bars.
So here's what happened. I was with a few people. Okay, a lot of people.
Don't judge—it's the 21st century. Then I got burned out. Burned out led to jaded.