Something Like Sugar

<p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Single twenty-eight year old female looking for a...bed time study buddy?</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I'm the good girl. The quiet one. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I teach your toddlers to plié on Saturday and read Shakespeare with my father on Sunday so never in a million years did I think I'd be here. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Putting up a Flinger profile. The place for one night stands and evening trysts.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>But after today it's clear the man I love will never see me how I want. And with Dad slipping away at each beep of his monitors for once in my life...ballet might not be enough. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Dance can't love you back. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I know it's risky. I know it's taboo.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>But if my best friend's brother won't open his eyes to see me maybe someone else will. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>So here I go posting an ad to lose my virginity. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>What could go wrong? Only everything.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>​</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Something Like Sugar is a small town secret dating best friend's brother romance with a little stalking and a lot of happily ever after. </em></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>*Trigger and Content Warnings Available at www.elsiebeabooks.com/contentguide</p><p class=ql-align-center>**Intended for a mature adult audience</p><p></p>