5
CHLOE
I woke up in the middle of the night and fought to control my swirling emotions. I’d had a nightmare about Roxy never paying me back for the things she charged on my card.
The thoughts kept me awake from 1 a.m. until 4:30 a.m. I used the time to read one of my favorite authors, Dani Wyatt, on my k****e.
The only way I ever got lucky was with book boyfriends, and the ones that got my juices going were hopelessly romantic and commanding.
So yeah, if I wrote the script for my life, it definitely wouldn’t turn out, so I turned 27 without ever being kissed or going out on a date. I’d be like one of the characters in the books I loved so much.
Someone’s dirty little princess who was cherished and taken care of.
So far, it hadn’t been in the cards. I had never spent real romantic
