Category: SUMMER SHORT STORIES
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CHAPTER 3 | The Meet Cute
Sebastian saw her the second she walked into the club, she had on a slip dress, with a bomber jacket thrown over it casually, emblazoned with Minnie Mouse on the back. He’d been speaking with someone by the cloakroom when she walked in, and the second she walked past him, he could not remember who…
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CHAPTER 2 | ST CLARE, ST TROPEZ
Wylder met with Beatrice, the new hotel manager whom she’d hired after a rigorous interview process first with HR, then Daphne and finally her and her sisters. Fifty people applied for the job filtered down to four by the Human Resources team. Beatrice is old school, but charming, she came with two decades experience in…
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CHAPTER 1: WYLDE DREAM
The car rounds the curved driveway slowly, before coming to a stop in front of the hotel; her chauffeur, Mr Morgan, knows her so well, because he stops in alignment with the middle of the French doors at the entrance of the hotel. Perfectly. Wylder catches his little smile from the rearview mirror and gives…
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#14 | Second Chances
Logan slammed the door to his mother’s home, the family home where he grew up, livid. He’s just come from his meeting with Francesca, and he headed straight from there to his mother. ‘What is the noise for?’ Leila comes barrelling down the grand steps leading into the hallways because the entire house shook at…
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#13 | HEARTBREAK HOTEL
It is a warm summer’s day, warmer than ever, one of those rare warm days in the summer that sees everyone roaming the streets nearly naked, high forties in London but Franny never felt so cold. The sun worshippers, the revellers, the delightful squeals of children… it all feel so foreign to her, it felt…
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#12 | Ours
Franny swam her way up to the surface of the water, where the yacht bobbed gently. She hops back onto the vessel where Logan is relaxed on one of the beds. Heaven. This is heaven. Clear blue waters, so clear she could see to the bottom of it, the sun in the blue skies and…
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#11 | MOTHERS & THEIR DAUGHTERS
‘Do you know where your son is?’ Paula shows herself into the parlour and takes a seat on the armchair without being invited to. Leila was not in the mood for her mother’s bullshit, she never is, but now is not the time. ‘Mother.’ ‘I asked you a question.’ ‘Has it escaped your mind that…
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#10 | Game, Set, Matcha
‘Hello.’ ‘Mrs Sterling…’ Franny freezes, tightening her grip of the bottle of wine in her hand; if she drops it, it’ll be deducted from her pay and wouldn’t that be ironic. This was the same wine she’d sold to Logan on his mother’s birthday. ‘Francesca, is it?’ Franny mentally takes a deep breath to steady…
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#9 | A Diamond Ring
Logan wanted to do this with his siblings, he had no idea why he has kept them in the dark about Francesca, but he knows how things would be once they get to meet her. He wants to have her to himself for a little while yet. Not that they wouldn’t love her, they will,…