Never Say Never, Part Two (Second Chance Romance, Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

again. I’ll treat you like gold and show you what it feels like to be a man.”  
    “Why should I?”  
    Janet searched for an answer, gaze flicking from side-to-side, desperate to prove herself in some way. Then he saw it. This woman wanted him. She wanted to be with him when Emily had never show that need, that real desire to be a part of his life.  
    She’d pushed him aside constantly, made him believe that he wasn’t worth her time or the trouble. Who was he kidding, here? Emily didn’t want him to be a part of her little adventure. That was the real reason she hadn’t let him in on her real past.  
    She wasn’t afraid. She was frigid.  
    But Janet, she wanted his attention, craved it actually.
    “All right.”  
    “You’ll go out with me?”  
    Chase took a deep breath. “Dinner, tomorrow night. Pick you up at eight.”

CHAPTER SEVEN

    The front door was the same as she remembered it. Brian hadn’t bothered to polish the knocker, as usual, but the small carving in the doorjamb was still there. She’d done it with the kids on a hot summer’s day while they were out in the front yard, scoffing down watermelon and giggling.  
    Emily shifted her feet in their pumps and stretched her neck. This was it.  
    Years of waiting and fearing, but she was finally here. The fear was gone, replaced by that anger and need to see her little ones. To get the life she deserved.  
    Brian would open up and tell her to leave and she’d say no. She had every right to see her kids, after all. She wasn’t prohibited from it.  
    Emily rapped her knuckles on the wood instead of using the knocker. It was an ostentatious thing anyway.  
    There were footsteps on the other side, a scrabbling of the lock, and the door swung open.  
    “Jesus H, is that you, Emily?”  
    It was Amanda.
    Amanda, her ex-best friend from High School and College, with her bleach blonde hair in an up style and bright pink Barbie lipstick on her overly full mouth. She primped and preened, pasting a white-toothed smile on bronze skin – hours spent in the tanning salon, no doubt. Classy.  
    “What are you doing here?” Emily didn’t want to believe this.  
    “I live here.” Amanda smacked her lips and checked her cougar-length pink nails.  
    Emily let the information sink in.  
    They’d had a long standing competition since they were kids, but she’d crossed the line with this.  
    “Are you insane?”  
    “No, I’m Mrs. Ross.” Amanda twiddled the fingers of her left hand, displaying a fat diamond on an engagement ring and a white gold wedding band. “For what is it, five years now?”  
    Five years. That meant they’d married six months after she’d gone to prison.  
    “How?”  
    “We’d been seeing each other on and off for years before you had your little mishap and went away. Brian was about to ask you for a divorce when it happened and then he did anyway.”  
    Emily nodded slowly. It made sense and it enraged her.
    How could she forget? Brian’s long absences during the week, the ‘event’, the trial, and receiving the divorce papers on the morning she was sentenced. He’d never been one for tact, rather one for cruelty.  
    “Well,” Emily remarked and Amanda’s eyes lit up, this was still some kind of sick game to her, “I wish you two the best of luck. I’m positive you deserve each other.”  
    “Amanda?” A young boy appeared behind her nemesis.  
    Emily’s heart froze and her mind went numb.
    It was Jared. He was ten whole years old, five years older than when she’d last seen him, and he was gorgeous.  
    Her son. His blonde hair was curly just as she remembered it, but those green eyes had seen more. They were defensive.  
    “Jared,” Emily breathed and he peered around Amanda at her. “Jared, it’s me.”  
    His mouth dropped open and he backed off until he hit the marble banister behind him.  
    Maybe he didn’t recognize her.  
    “Jared, where’s Becci? It’s mommy, please