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  Replace Me

  Jennifer Foor

  Jennifer Foor (2013)

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  Rating: *****

  Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary

  Replace Me is book 2 in the ongoing KIN series. To get the best enjoyment, and be able to follow the storyline and characters, please read book 1, Repair Me, prior to reading this book.

  Lacey Travis has wanted Shayne Hutchinson since she was 15, when they first met at the beach and she was just a blip on his radar. As adults, they finally begin dating. What Lacey thinks is a serious relationship isn’t how Shayne perceives it. He’s been seeing other women the whole time. After lies are exposed, Lacey has no choice but sever their romance. She’s torn and seeks comfort with her friends, Sky and Ford, spending every weekend hanging out with the perfect couple, wishing she could have just a taste of what something so amazing feels like.

  When Ford’s cousin Joey, the practicing womanizer, moves into the apartment next to them, he’s determined to get Lacey into his bed. The more she fights Joey, the harder he is to resist. Resolved to steer clear of the heartbreaker, Lacey falls victim to more of Shayne’s doings and lands right into Joey’s accepting arms. Then Shayne finds out that Lacey’s moved on. He becomes overwhelmed with trying to win her back, before she falls for that one person that he’s certain will break her heart even worse than he’s already done.

  As Lacey fights her feelings for both of these men, she realizes that a choice must be made. With her heart on the line, she’s determined to find happiness. Will she choose the one who will give her that taste of perfection she’s been looking for?

  Find out who Lacey ends up with in this erotic follow-up to Repair Me.

  Contains sexual content and some strong language. 18+ readers only.

  Replace Me

  Book 2

  The Kin Series

  The story of Lacey and Shayne

  Written By: Jennifer Foor

  Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Foor

  All Rights Reserved

  Cover Art By : Wicked Cool Designs – Robin Harper

  Photography: Toski Covey

  This book is a written act of fiction. Any places, characters, or similarities are purely coincidence. If certain places or characters are referenced it is for entertainment purposes only. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. This book is not allowed to be offered for sale, discounted, or free on any sites other than Kobo, IBook’s, Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This book may only be distributed by Jennifer Foor, the owner and Author of this series.

  Check out the other books by Jennifer Foor

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  Letting Go - A Mitchell Family Series Book One

  Folding Hearts – A Mitchell Family Series Book Two

  Raging Love – A Mitchell Family Series Book Three

  Risking Fate – A Mitchell Family Series Book Four

  Wrapping Up – A Mitchell Family Series Novella 4.5

  Wanting More – A Mitchell Series Book Five

  Saving Us – A Mitchell Family Series Book Six

  Blinding Trust – A Mitchell Family Series Book Seven

  Losing Him – A Mitchell Family Series Book Eight

  Hope’s Chance (Contemporary Romance)

  The Somnian Series (YA Paranormal)

  Books 1-5

  Hustle Me (A Bank Shot Romance)

  Hustle Him (A Bank Shot Romance)

  Diary of a Male Maid

  Twinsequences

  Coming Soon

  Gray Love (Contemporary Romance)

  Repair Me ( Erotica)

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  Chapter 1

  Shayne

  Three rings and the voicemail picked up. After exhausting all other options to get in touch with her, this was my last resort. I’d fucked up and she’d made it clear that we were through, even without hearing my side of the story.

  “Lace, It’s me again. I’m goin’ to keep callin’ until you pick up the phone and talk to me. I know I messed up, but you need to know that I was tryin’ to protect my brother. What would you have done if you were me?” I scratched my head and couldn’t believe that I was leaving the same message as I’d left all week long. “Please call me back.”

  When I hung up the phone I saw my dad walking in the kitchen. He was going to blow a gasket when he learned what Parker had gotten himself into. Since my cousin Ford knew the truth, it was only a matter of time before his ex Ashley came looking for money and support from us.

  I didn’t hate keeping things from my dad, considering he could overreact and make my life miserable. The longer he was kept in the dark, the longer I had a roof over my head.

  It would have been better if I hadn’t just moved back home. Having my own place would have allowed me to avoid him for as long as possible.

  My dad wasn’t the type of man that you could reason with, and since my brother had a real chance at a professional career in sports, it was going to be even worse. Parker was my father’s favorite. He never said it, but it was blatantly obvious. He’d always wanted me to play sp
orts and stay in school, but my eye was always on the prize. I didn’t like answering to people and doing what he suggested that I do. My hard-headedness had left me exactly where he said I’d end up. I ran the modification part of his company. Most of the time, he’d come in and yell at me for something that I had nothing to do with. I would have liked my job, if he wasn’t my boss. Instead, he repeatedly made me his punching bag and I was a laughing stock. I couldn’t complain when I looked at my cousin Ford, who had given up everything to help run his dad’s shit-hole of a repair shop. That place was better off burning to the ground.

  “What’s your problem, Shayne?”

  I shrugged and started walking into the other room. “Nothin’. What time is Mom comin’ home?”

  “She ain’t makin’ dinner if that’s why you’re askin’. You can fix somethin’ yourself for once.”

  I rolled my eyes and headed back to my room without saying anything to him. It sucked that the summer was coming to an end, because I really liked being at the beach, away from him.

  A few minutes later I heard him yelling. My sister came bursting into my room and leaned her back up against the door. She rolled her eyes. “What a dick!”

  “What’d you do now?” My sister Peyton was a little spit-fire. She was mischievous and definitely a handful. I’d had to take care of her messes several times when she was too drunk and fucked up to do it herself.

  She came and sat down on the bed, leaning her head on my shoulder. “I should have gone with Parker. Dad would have paid for us to have a little apartment. I hate it here. He’s such a jerk. He might as well put a fuckin’ chastity belt on me, the way he thinks he can control me. Does he not get that I’m an adult now?”

  I kept playing the video game instead of rolling my eyes and pissing her off.

  “You’re his only daughter, Pey. You know he’s just lookin’ out for ya.”

  She threw her hands up as she stood and faced me. “Lookin’ out for me is fine. He’s like a fuckin’ warden at a prison. I hate livin’ here.”

  I thought about our brother and how the truth of his predicament was going to trump anything she could ever complain about. Peyton didn’t have a clue. Like all women, she expected to be treated like a princess, without having to live by certain morals.

  My phone ringing caught me off guard. Peyton reached over and grabbed it off the bedside table before I could get to it. “It’s Lacey.”

  I reached for it, but she moved her hand out of the way. “Give me the damn phone!”

  “Are you two fightin’?”

  I couldn’t tell her or anyone else why we hadn’t been talking. “Just give me the damn phone!”

  She tossed it on my bed and started walking out of the room. “You don’t have to be so rude!”

  I shook my head and hit accept for the call.

  “Hello?”

  “Please stop calling me, Shayne.”

  “Lace, don’t hang up.”

  “What now? Are you going to tell me you’re sorry again? I heard it a zillion times. We’re through, Shayne. You lied straight to my face and almost destroyed my best friend’s life. You deceived your cousin’s trust. Why should I think that you would be loyal to me?”

  “Because, it’s completely different!”

  “Have you ever cheated on me, Shayne?”

  Her question caught me off guard. Since I’d never considered us to have been exclusive, I never thought I had to explain what I was doing every second of the day. I’d gone out a few times with other girls and still talked on the phone occasionally to some of them.

  “Shayne? You can’t even answer?”

  “I…Lace…It’s not…”

  “Save it! I was a fool to think that you’d changed. Lose my fucking number and don’t call me again! I’m not kidding. I’ll change my number if I have to.”

  I heard the click of the phone hanging up and tossed my phone on the bed, before covering my face with my hands. She was just a woman in a slew of many that wanted my attention. If she was done, then so was I.

  End of story!

  Lacey

  I held the phone up to my ear and listened to it ringing. “Come on, Sky, pick up the damn phone!”

  I waited a couple more rings.

  “Lace, this isn’t a good time,” She giggled and I heard Ford in the background saying something to her.

  “I need to talk to you. Shayne called me again.”

  More giggling. “Ford. Stop!”

  I rolled my eyes. They’d been making up for days and I was so utterly sick of hearing about their happiness. “Can you two just take a break for a minute and lend me your ears? Damn!”

  “Sorry, Lace. I’m here. What happened?”

  I plopped down on my bed and looked at the ceiling. “Same as last time. He called and kept leaving messages. I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I called him back. Then he proceeded to feed me the same bullshit, and get this, I asked him if he’d ever cheated on me and he couldn’t even answer. What the hell?”

  Sky was quiet and she got that way when she didn’t know what to say.

  “Sky, I’m done with Shayne. I’m not being with someone that I can’t trust. He isn’t worth my time and effort if he can’t even man up and admit his wrongdoings. Obviously, he’s got too much going on in his life to want to make an effort with me.”

  “Are you going to be okay?”

  I shrugged, even though she couldn’t see me. “I love him, you know. It’s hard walking away from something that I still want to have. How do people do that?”

  “You don’t want my opinion on that. I mean, I was supposed to let go of Ford and move on, but we all know I couldn’t. I guess it takes time.”

  I sighed and wondered what I was going to do with my time. “Do you want to go out? We could catch a movie or go shopping? Anything would be better than sitting around here thinking about the amazing sex that I’m never going to have again. I don’t even know if I’m more upset about breaking up or not being able to sleep with him again. We were so compatible in that category.”

  “Right now?” She was whispering something and I could hear him laughing again, through the muffles. “We’re kinda in the middle of something.”

  “Gag! For real, I didn’t need to know that.” I looked around my room, which was nothing to make a big deal about. Clothes were strewed all over the bed and floor. “I guess I’ll clean my room or something. God knows I can’t sit around and dwell on being boyfriendless and horny.”

  “We never told you that you had to break up with Shayne. If you still want him, go for it. I won’t love you any less. I hate seeing you miserable.”

  “I’ll love myself less and I don’t want that. We’re done. I’m hanging up now, to be depressed without having to hear the two of you banging each other and being so happy. Enjoy your night and call me in the morning, when you’re dressed and not in a bed.”

  After we’d hung up, I felt even more depressed over the situation. For months I’d been so happy. Shayne seemed to be the kind of man that I wanted to be serious about. I’d already cried my eyes out several times and felt like they had doubled in size from swelling.

  It was easy to say that I wanted nothing more to do with Shayne. Inside, it was destroying me. I wanted to crawl in a hole and disappear. The problem was, I knew I had to stay strong. Sky had been through so much and as sad as I was for myself, I wanted to be happy for her and Ford.

  So, I did something drastic. With my phone already in my hand, I called my provider and had my number changed. Then, I erased his number and deleted him from my social networking page.. It was drastic, but needed to be done.

  Then I cried some more.

  A few hours later, I had changed into a pair of sweat pants and was eating ice cream out of the container. Sure, it was cliché, but I didn’t care. I was twenty-one years old, jobless and now alone. I was pathetic!

  With my life in such a sudden disarray, I began to think about what I could do to change things. I
nstead of being negative, I decided that it was a perfect opportunity for me to decide what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. My friends were already starting their careers and fully vested in college, while I’d dropped out and done nothing productive, but filled my closet with sexy outfits to wear for a boyfriend that no longer existed.

  Two days later, and a lot of sleepless hours, I was sitting down in front of my mother, letting her know that I’d made the decision to go back to school. This time, I knew exactly what I wanted to do and I was determined that my new goals were going to help me get over Shayne and move on with my life.

  Chapter 2

  Shayne

  A few weeks after the whole episode with my cousin, I got a call from Ashley. I’d wanted to ignore her attempts to contact me, but knew that it would result in her showing up at my door.

  My brother, who still didn’t have a clue about the pregnancy, was excelling his ass off at college. His coach was impressed, as was my father when he heard all about it. My parents made a huge deal about us making the trip up to his college to see him play in the first game of the season.

  During the drive, I thought about a million ways I could break the news to him. No matter how I did, it wasn’t going to be easy. In fact, I already knew what he was going to say. Parker didn’t want a baby spoiling his dream. He’d beg her to abort, so it wouldn’t ruin things for him.

  Since I’d managed to keep the truth from my dad, and my uncle hadn’t spilled the beans, I felt it was necessary to handle the problem before it escalated. Of course, being that my cousin wanted nothing to do with me, I didn’t have anyone to run things by with. The mistake that I’d made had caused my whole life to fall apart.

  Where I felt like Lacey was just another girl I was banging, I was beginning to contemplate that maybe she’d been more. I thought about her all of the time and hated that I couldn’t have her.