It had been a really hard week. Work was brutal and my personal life even more so. It was a whole lot of nothing. I didn’t have hopes for the night but here we were, my husband and I at the beach. God, there were so many people here. I lay down on the blanket. Just a few minutes until sundown. I looked over, he was asleep. Yes. It was a hard week. I lay back and closed my eyes, looked at the stars just peeking out of the...

I looked out the window. Rain. Again. Did it ever stop? I had been cooped up in the Edgewater Hotel on the water in Seattle for two days. I looked at the Juliette with French doors. There was no way I was going out there. This Florida girl had no interest in that grey and that rain. What was I doing here? I jumped in a plane and flew 3500 miles for a hook-up. How desperate was I? Tom and I had been sexting for the better...

I walked into the club. I was restless. It had been two months since I was alone. There had to be an end to the madness. I could do this, right? I could be alone. I was a grown woman with a heart, gifts, and a need. I looked around the place. Ybor City. It’s just a wicked little town by Tampa that was restless from morning until night. The club wasn’t classy by any means, it was just odd. It fed my soul. Sometimes you nee...