Just Because

By Jon Bradbury

The week before the biggest event of his life, Arturo is missing one thing―a date! So he goes to his agent, Raquel Strawberry, for a little help. And like any good friend, she agrees to help, just because.

Warning: adultery

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Jul 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9781487417895

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Sometimes friends want to help just because.

The week before the biggest event of his life, Arturo is missing one thing―a date! So he goes to his agent, Raquel Strawberry, for a little help. And like any good friend, she agrees to help, just because.

Warning: adultery

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Just Because

Copyright © 2018 Jon Bradbury

ISBN: 978-1-4874-1789-5

Cover art by Angela Waters

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Just Because

By

Jon Bradbury

Dedication

As I wrote this story, it was snowing. I hope your summer is hot in a good way.

Prologue: The Wedding

Arturo Navarro hated weddings.

Just like blood in the water attracted sharks, or just like turning on the lights on a summer night attracted flying insects, there was something about a wedding that made an otherwise reasonable adult female want to share the love.

But there was no way he could weasel out of this wedding.

His long-time friend Jessica Elaina Maria Lopez, now Jessica Hernandez, had invited him to the wedding and the following wedding reception. He had thought of a million excuses, and dropped them all. Jessica knew he had that weekend free. There was no escape.

And so here he was.

Neither the groom nor the groom’s family had invited him to be on the podium, which was just as well. Because even though he was friends with the groom, just being a spectator to the vows of love and devotion being taken made him sick to his stomach.

He had wanted to throw up. Although he would admit it was a sour grapes thing.

So far, no woman had deemed him fit to take wedding vows with, and at the rate he was going, in his mid-40s, none ever would. Falling in love and getting married was, apparently, a game for the young. And he was no longer young. Although, thanks to a deal with a movie studio, he was now loaded.

And now, here he was, at the wedding reception. At least he had finally been able to take off the hideously uncomfortable bowtie and unbutton the collar of his shirt.

As soon as he entered the reception hall, Jessica ran over to him, wedding gown and all, the veil still covering her black hair, and threw her arms around his neck, giving him a million noisy kisses. "Arturo! So glad