Love at Their Cost (BWWM)
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Last published Mon, Oct 24, 2016
This story is about a woman named Ryan Markson, who is known as a shy, loyal, hardworking, and trustworthy woman, who experiences the biggest heart break of her life which ultimately makes her harden her heart towards me. Her knowledge of love is great, but will this next challenge, of a man, make her question herself?
Jonathan Wright is a billionaire who owns his own hotel company that is constantly growing and spreading. He is not the usual playboy that is in the limelight, he is more of the hardworking type that gets what he wants, no matter the circumstance. But there is a first for everything, or is there?
Will Ms. Markson become his first or will Mr. Wright beat her at her own game?
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