Sapphire

By Ashley Suzanne

Dallas isn't the kind of girl you bring home to mom ... she's the exact opposite.
For the last four years, Dallas has been living a life that nobody would wish upon their worst enemy. Running away from home at sixteen, she's had to make a life for herself the only way she knew how.
An unexpected meeting with a boy from her past sends Dallas into a tailspin, landing her in the loving care of her aunt ... who essentially brings her back to life.
Even after being saved, Dallas finds herself in a situation that will test the relationship with her family and Robbie. 
Craving the separation between Dallas and Sapphire, she does the unthinkable.
Can she bury Sapphire for good?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ashley Suzanne
• Release date: Feb 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386705826

Ashley Suzanne

Ashley Suzanne has been writing as long as she can remember. As a youngster, she was always creating stories and talking to her imaginary friends. Thankfully, her parents also carried this love of fiction, and helped her grow into the writer she is today. Ashley is a bestselling author and spends equal amounts of time writing and reading. Being the true book whore she is, Ashley would rather dive into a good book before going out of her house. Giving up her career in Real Estate, Ashley has officially moved to hermit status. When Ashley isn't coming up with her next story, you'll most likely find her on the couch with a kindle in her hand (probably watching some crappy reality show while , annoying her husband by telling him all about her new book boyfriend or spending quality time with her two gremlins ... Sorry, I mean adorable children. You can find Ashley on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and/or her blog.

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OTHER WORKS BY ASHLEY SUZANNE

*All works can be found everywhere ebooks are sold.  Please visit www.booksbyashleysuzanne.com for a complete list of Ashley’s books.

THE DESTINED SERIES

Mirage (book 1)

Inception (book 1.5)

Awakening (book 2)

Façade (book 3)

Epiphany (book 4)

Inescapable (book 5) – COMING SOON

FIGHT OR FLIGHT SERIES (Random House—Loveswept)

Raven (book 1)

Cutter (book 2) (Coming 2016)

CLAIM SERIALS (Also available in Korean Translation)

Claim: Volume 1

Claim: Volume 2

Claim: Volume 3

Claim:  The Complete Collection (box set)

THE UP IN SMOKE SERIES

Rekindle (book 1)

Smolder (book 2) (coming soon)

STAND ALONE NOVELS

Calling Card (Also available in Portuguese Translation)

Breaking Noah (Random House—Loveswept) (Co-Authored with Missy Johnson)

Dallas (coming soon) (Continuation of Sapphire:  A Short Story)

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Ashley Suzanne is represented by Marisa Corvisiero with Corvisiero Literary Agency.

DEDICATION

This one’s for you ... the readers.  It’s been a year since I’ve self published a novel and while I don’t have one ready for you just yet, I wanted to give you a little something.  A prequel maybe.  I want you to all know how much I appreciate your dedication to my dream and my passion.  I want you to know that I want to give you a new book, a longer book, and I’m diligently working on it.  I vow to give you a few new stories with some amazing new characters and maybe even a few blasts from the past coming your way in 2016 and 2017!  Thank you for sticking with me and I adore each and every one of you!!!

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

This is an important note.  This story, Sapphire, is a short story I had included in the Moments in Time anthology back in early 2015.  I’ve been toying with the follow up story, but as of right now, it’s not ready, but I want you all to get to know Sapphire so when you do get her full story, you’ll have her background.  I hope you enjoy this story, but going into this one, I just wanted you to realize this is a short story, not a full novel. 

And in the beginning ... or is this the middle?

I am nobody.  Just a girl.  Just a girl that nobody really gives a shit about, not even my mother.  She wouldn’t care if a cop showed up on her doorstep to tell her that her only daughter is dead.  And that’s kind of where I’m headed.  One can only do so much dope, fuck so many guys and live the life I live before karma catches up and puts their ass in the meat grinder.

Ask me if I fucking care.  Go ahead, ask me.  Okay, fine, don’t ask.  The answer is going to be the same each and every time—I don’t care.  There isn’t a whole lot these days that can make me bat an eyelash twice.

I’m the girl that nobody thinks twice about.  I’m the girl that will lay on my back, part my thighs and let you take what you want, as long as I get something in return.  Usually money, but sometimes a place to crash or some food.

That’s probably why my mother doesn’t want shit to do with me.  Who wants to admit that her only daughter is a used up whore who isn’t even twenty-one yet?  Probably not too many people, huh?  Calling her for bail after getting picked up for hooking in the middle of the night was the last straw.  It’s been six months since I’ve even heard my mother’s voice.

Over the last month, I’ve been dancing—I use that term liberally—at a strip club off the highway.  Don’t get it in your head that I’m some glorified stripper strutting my stuff in my finest lingerie, six-inch platform shoes, hair perfectly curled, makeup to the nines and glittered head to toe.  No, this isn’t that type of club.  My attire usually consists of a matching bra and panty set from Wal-Mart and a pair of black pumps. 

I actually just stumbled onto this job and it seemed logical to take it.  What better place to find men that want to fuck for money and never get caught by a suspicious girlfriend or wife?  The strip club—where the ATM withdrawal on your bank statement always reads some sort of sporting goods store. Nobody asks for your number for a second meeting and you can get in, get off and get out in a matter of twenty minutes.  Wholesale pussy, right?

So for the last month or so, that’s what I’ve