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Chapter One
Penny glanced down at herself The white top she as tight, clung to her curves, and, with the few buttons in front undone, gave sight to soe She’d taken her friend Lily’s advice and paired the top with a short skirt and sexy heels, but now she had to wonder…
“You sure this isn’t too much?”
She wiggled her toes, insecurity slowly puh her veins
Lily tugged on the fabric of Penny’s shirt, trying to close the buttons “Maybe suck it in a little?”
“I can’t suck in my boobs”
Lily shrugged and stepped back to look at her “Screw it, I say leave it undone It looks hot Besides, it’s Jenna’s bachelorette party,” she said, fastening her earing “You’re supposed to dress a little slutty for the club”
The club was half an hour away and the closest thing to a “night life scene” available to the people from the small town of Diamond, Kansas Well, aside from Penny’s BBQ bar and restaurant She’d taken over the BBQ when herhours hadn’t left o to clubs, or the city for that matter, but that didn’t s
The last tis” was in the bedroom with her ex-boyfriend Eli was courteous, handsoentleman should be He’d even been patient with Penny when shesex
The sex had been a wild disappointone to surprise him with round two What she discovered was that he’d already found his own round two, and it wasn’t with her Soon after taking her virginity, he’d taken her dignity by cheating on her with so”
His words still rang in her ears:
“You’re just too vanilla, Penny”
That had stung, couy that color-coded his sock drawer, and she’d never quite come out of the shadow he’d cast over her self-estee to be unleashed, but the first time she’d tried to let out her inner sex kitten, he’d dumped her
Which hy her sexual experience was lacking That one tiht about dating again, even gotten a few adreat job keeping the male population of Diamond far away from her And she was tired of it Especially since she’d just found out that Eli was co back into toith his new fiancé AKA the other woman
Diamond was too small a town for her not to run into him If—when—she saw him, she wanted to know for herself that he wouldn’t wreck her
“Besides,” Lily said, “this is the kind of outfit you need to catch the kind offor”
Penny sed hard Funny Lily had phrased it that way, because she was going fishing, and Penny had her eyes on a big Bass As in Sebastian “Bass” Strafford The one man she’d had a secret crush on for years He was dark, brooding, and a bad ass attorney, who also happened to be her older brother’s best friend
“Ryder’s going to wet himself if he sees me dressed like this,” Penny said
Jenna and Colt McCade had been engaged since last suht around the corner Thanks to her friends being disgustingly in love, they’d decided to thrown a joint bachelor-bachelorette party at the club Which meant Penny’s brother Ryder would be there
But so would Bass And that ht the perfect chance for Penny to make her move She not only trusted him—they’d been friends for years, after all—she kneas the kind ofat hih to know that