For the Love of Max

By Gabbi Grey

Ironworker Dodge Vasilius has been in love with LGBTQ social worker Maxine Reeves since he first met her at a party when her date abandoned her. She's way out of his league. Except she's finally left the abusive jerk. Dodge is just checking to make certain she's safe. Because making a move on the newly single Maxine would be classless...right?

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
• Release date: Jun 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781509226405

Gabbi Grey

USA Today Bestselling author Gabbi Grey lives in beautiful British Columbia where her fur baby chin-poo keeps her safe from the nasty neighborhood squirrels. Working for the government by day, she spends her early mornings writing contemporary, gay, sweet, and dark erotic BDSM romances. While she firmly believes in happy endings, she also believes in making her characters suffer before finding their true love. She also writes m/f romances as Gabbi Black and Gabbi Powell.

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For the Love of Max

by

Gabbi Grey

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

For the Love of Max

COPYRIGHT © 2019 by Gabbi Grey

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author or The Wild Rose Press, Inc. except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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Cover Art by Diana Carlile

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Publishing History

First Scarlet Rose Edition, 2019

Digital ISBN 978-1-5092-2640-5

Published in the United States of America

Dedication

To ELF. Thank you.

For the Love of Max

I gave her a light tap, and she called the cops. Said she was going to press charges, so I ditched the bitch. Who needs that shit?

Bitch?

The word resonated in Dodge Vasilius’ mind while standing on the sidewalk in front of Maxine Reeves’ cottage.

Definitely not a bitch.

In fact, she was as far from that vulgar epithet as a woman could be. She possessed style, grace, and class. He had always wondered why she’d dated Asshat Garth. Now, she was free from the lying, substance-abusing, loud-mouthed moron, and Dodge was proud of her. Would it have been better if she had left months ago? Yes. But she was free of him now and that was what mattered, right?

Right.

…or not.

Because only few days had passed, and here he was, knocking on her door. Would she think he was horning in? Looking for leftovers? Coming