My Way

By J.C. Rhodes

***** A bad boy by day, a playboy by night. That is the reputation that precedes Robert Towne.

*****When Nina Popov learns the devastating news that she would not have the leading role in the big ticket National Ballet event, she is faced with a terrible dilemma. Leave town and start over somewhere else or stick it out and try to make it on another national ballet event. Fate lands her in the sight of the deeply mysterious and dazzlingly gorgeous businessmen, Robert Towne. Throbbing with raw alpha masculinity and arrogance, this is a man who gets everything he pursues. And now he wants her. Nina cannot deny she is both intrigued and captivated by the world Blake inhabits and the flaming passion he stirs in her body, but she is also fearful for this man is addictive and right now she is very vulnerable.
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She knows she should focus only on getting her life back on track, but how can she? When he has opened a new world for her to discover.******

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eye Know Romance Publishing
• Release date: Feb 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463873151

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My Way

Lose Control As He Aims To Please

By J.C. Rhodes

Published by 143 Publishing

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Copyright © 2020 J.C Rhodes

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What’s in a woman?

Chapter 2: Her First Pitch

Chapter 3: What’s in a man?

Chapter 4: Nina in his days and Nights

Chapter 5: What is in attraction?

Chapter 6: Pitch Two

Chapter 7: Self doubt

Chapter 8: Enlightenment

Chapter 9: What’s in her that memorizes him?

Chapter 10: Compromise

Chapter 11: Confidence

Chapter 12: Future

Chapter 1:

What’s in a woman?

A body and mind at war…

Nina Orlova Popov is everything her name suggests. She is a beautiful combination of her Italian/Russian ancestry. Her face is delicate with flawless pale olive skin and blue eyes, full red lips and dark flowing tresses that shine like silk when not restrained in her everyday bun.

From the moment she was on her feet as a toddler, she danced. It came to her naturally, so her parents nurtured her innate talent with ballet lessons from the age of three. By then she had already adopted the countenance of a prima ballerina.

Like many true ballerinas, she was riddled with self-doubt and a punishing self-discipline. Fortunately, she was blessed with a strong intellect so school never interfered with her real job, her calling in life. She breezed through her mandatory classes through high school and even took a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts just to practice due diligence on taking normal steps towards adulthood.

Until puberty, including her exacting plan on scheduling her time, leaving little time for silly things like friendships, and socializing, life was golden for Nina. Then maturation played a terrible trick. As Nina grew, her body did not cooperate with her spiritual path. She began to feel ugly, unsightly even, developing an unhealthy view of a perfectly healthy body.

In others eyes, she grew into a very feminine, beautiful and shapely young woman. She had an ample bosom, a lovely thin waist, and just enough padding on her hips to hold a perfect hourglass shape without being chunky. Her long legs and beautiful face made for a stunning vision of femininity most young women would have been thrilled with. Every inch of her was toned. Except for her large breasts, but even those were perky and firm; she was solid muscle.

As the saying goes, she wore her weight well. But Nina was a ballerina and ballerinas were light boned and almost sickeningly spare. They did not have figures; they simply were built to be limber, strong and graceful. Nina was stunning but she was not lithe. She had a woman’s body. It caused her some great measure of stress as she grew and years accumulated.

Nina recognized at age 23 that the time for acceptance was now. She was not ever going to be a prima ballerina. She was, since age 15, and still today a niche dancer. She was cast in the roles of mother, aunt, older sister at best, or grandmother at worst. Her body was her obstacle. The irony of it was not lost on many, so amazing was her talent.

By age twenty five she had danced all the roles she cared to, and decided with the determination that she had used to attain her perfect technique, that she could create her own niche. It had to be something never seen before. A ballerina turned circus act. She would dance while throwing knives, with her hand, with her feet, from her shoes, into her shoes. She would juggle cobbler knives while moving through a series of adagio positions. Using her feet she would launch knives into the air with every jete, and her finale was always a breathtaking grande

pirouette à la seconde, with four machetes in the moving hand. She had many other tricks in her bag and perhaps the most impressive in terms of skill was a series of pirouettes where she spun bayonets imbedded in the soles of her tiny ballet slippers up to her hands as she pirouetted en pointe across the stage. She had the skill to do all of these things, one trick learned at a time, all strung together in one show.

She would not play the concert halls and stages that her fellow ballerinas, with their perfect bodies did, in the traditional ballets. Those were no longer options for her. She had self-discipline. She would use it and an intellect to match. She would seek out funding to put together a practice schedule to perfect the act while procuring event venues at which to perform. She estimated her plan would take two years to put in place.

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, her mother wondered why she is home alone. She has a boyfriend, not that he would amount to much, but he was nice enough. She can’t imagine why Nina wouldn’t spend the night with him or at least with her parents. But Nina had much different plans and called that night to share them with her mother, her greatest confidant. Absolutely shocked, her mother was almost at a loss for what to say.

"Nina, darling…this is not right. You