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BOOT STRAPS
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AbadeOghenekeno
Complete, First published Apr 14, 2020
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You know that feeling when there are lots of responsibilities and things you have to do pulling you down alongside emotional issues that's making you feel like  thousands of straps are tying you down to a torture chair ....well that's how skai feels


Skai Hart is an African American who lives a peaceful and calm life ... she's about to graduate from college with her long term boyfriend of 5 years,Andre Matthews

As she had dinner with her family and finance in a restaurant ....a mafia gang bursts in and turn the building in disarray looking for a particular blackjack ....little does she know that's her boyfriend.....she witness the lash out between the gang and her boyfriend....finally realizing her boyfriend is part of a mafia group that deals on drugs and weapons which leads to the serious breakup .

And that's how the scandals began to unfold in her life....just after the incident she learns of her parents divorce leaving her alone to cater for her younger brother, Sekani who disagrees to go with any parent . That's when Skai decides she's going to cater for her and her brother not depending on anyone for help making her to work hard and be diligent .

Hardwork paid off..now she's a big business tycoon who landed a partnership deal with an attractive but stuck up Drake Johnson who doesn't take the slightest bit of nuisance .

How would skai relate with her new business partner ?

Would she finally find someone to let down her guard and depend on another person ?

Would she be able to recover from her hard break up with Andre ?

Would she finally be able to relax and not be anxious about anything ?
      
  Please read on and see how skai"s life filled with 1 million and 1 event unfold as she lives under a boot strapped life
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Asmara My'yanni Dawson has always wanted to help people. Majoring in Social Work, she's almost finished with her senior year of college. She kept her mind in her books and her heart away from love. She didn't swear it off, she just took a break from it after she experienced a major heartbreak her freshman year of college. The guy she thought she was in love with ghosted her, and it was later revealed that her best friend from high school not only slept with him, but had his child as well. She then realized that not every one deserved your trust and your heart, so she kept it on lock, until she met him... Esai Zamier Lewis always felt like the world was against him. Being diagnosed with a mental disorder, surviving poverty, and having to grow up fast, turned him into an emotionally unavailable person. Recently released from prison, Esai is learning to live in a world where his mother and brother aren't in it with him. Coping with promethazine to sleep through the pain, he doesn't realize it's doing more harm than good. Trying to uphold the promise to his mom, he opens his own tattoo shop, Esai's Ink. With the help of his friends and recent love interest, he realizes he's not alone as much as he thought. Follow Asmara and Esai as they both go through life with each other by each other's side. Relationships and friendships will be tested, secrets will be revealed, loved ones will be grieved. Can they survive it all? First book! Enjoy!

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