The Cheat

by Cherime MacFarlane, The Graphics Shed

Genres: Short Stories; Second Chance Romance

Synopsis

She let it go too long with her ex. This time Frances will end it while she still has some pride left.
Life and Love in Alaska. Please note each story of this series is a short story.
Francis labels herself as "fat and forty." How in the world she came to be living with the guitar player for a popular Alaska band is a wonder to her. Monte is a groupie magnet, and Francis is waiting for him to tell her it's over. The text message she gets from him after he returns home from a weekend gig, sets off a major fight when Francis accuses Monte of being a cheat. Monte did something, but what?

Release date: November 5, 2014

Print pages: 26

Content advisory: Steamy

Sample

 

I got the text message just before leaving Anchorage. Sitting at my desk, I was closing out the last program on the computer. In another five minutes, I would be leaving work for the valley and home. Monte was waiting, and the message said for me not to worry about dinner as he had it covered. There was a second short cryptic thing from him, "need 2 tell U something". It was just the one line in the bubble under the first message.

I don't like surprises. I especially don't care for them from a man who has just returned home from a two night gig in another city. Worse yet, when the man is one extremely hot guitar player with a dimple in his right cheek, those kinds of messages start all sorts of disturbing thoughts churning around in my brain.

After all, what was I doing with the man anyhow? Every female within fifty miles of any gig the band did, seemed to be able to sniff him out. I couldn't ride herd on Monte all the time. I didn't want to be his keeper.

Men who needed keepers were a pain in the ass. I gave up the last pain to my supposed good friend, Lianne. The bitch was welcome to him. It was going to be interesting to see how long they lasted.