New to Love
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Mia Colburn is trapped. A man with insatiable greed is threatening to tear her life apart. In order to save her husband and her bother she must do the unthinkable: pretend to love another man.
But Jimmy Colburn is not about to let his wife slip away from him that easily...
This short, steamy Western romance is approximately 5,300 words.
Gabriella Mahoney
Gabriella Mahoney is a California girl that has been writing since grade school. As an incurable bookworm, she remembers when her best friend first introduced her to Georgette Heyer and the world of Regency romance like it was yesterday. Gabriella likes to write in a variety of genres but she is especially fond of short form fiction and exploring the new romantic possibilities it creates.
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New to Love - Gabriella Mahoney
New to Love
By Gabriella Mahoney
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James Jimmy
Colburn shot back another whiskey and relished the way it burned his throat and stomach. Everything was numb. Well, almost everything.
Another one, Jimmy?
With an effort, Jimmy lifted his head just enough to look at the bartender. Stop askin’ me, Bart,
he slurred, just keep ‘em comin’.
Bart shook his head but refilled Jimmy’s glass anyway. He knew his friend wasn’t in the best frame of mind right now. It was now well known about town what Mrs. Colburn was doing these days.
Jimmy looked at the amber liquid gratefully. Unlike his marriage, it still held so much promise. But despite the gloriously numb state he had achieved, the whiskey had failed to dull the pain in the one area that hurt the most: his heart.
He laughed to himself. He figured the moment his heart stopped hurting would be when he was dead. Yes, death would