Just a Number (Downtown #1) (25 page)

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Once I moved past the main objective of having a career, to prove that I could be a successful business woman, I found that it could also bring me happiness. My passion for fashion became my focus.
How could I incorporate my love for the clothing world into my public relations job?
A love I learned from my mother. Part of her career, she dressed for her job daily, appropriately for every occasion: carpool, sport practices, ballet classes, and business dinners. She researched different glamorous magazines and then shopped. I represented the people she followed, and I loved every minute of it. We were both career girls: an office for me, a home with a husband and children for her.

With children, we differed only that I didn’t want any of my own. Otherwise, I loved being around them. I think the reason I was most adamant about not having children was because of my upbringing. While my parents weren’t terrible people (they didn’t abuse us or beat us), they preached to us their ideals or those of the generations before them. For me, those guidelines caused me frustration and pain. It is said that there is no instruction manual for raising children. They also say we learned from our parents. I knew my parents had learnt from theirs, and I didn’t want to be like them. Nor did I believe I was capable of teaching them. Maybe my own ideas weren’t correct, either. I wasn’t willing to experiment, and I was thankful that I found someone with my same aversion to childrearing.

Like my mother, we both love our men. For Marian she wanted a marriage, kids and the white picket fence. Me, I didn’t want any of that. Not one part of that idealized dream. No permanent man for me. Just a number for fun, and then move on. That was before Dash breathed new desires into my life. He made me want to share treasured moments with someone. He made me think about forever… as in shacking up together, not the marriage thingy. We exchanged I love you freely on a daily basis. But, no exchange of vows. No wedding, but lots of honeymoons. Bottom line: Rockstar-yoga-guru made Corporate-girl very happy!

The End

Playlist…

Shopping For Labels
Fergie

Dressed Up in Love
Jennifer Hudson

On the Floor JLO
Jennifer Lopez

Holiday
Green Day

Counting Stars
One Republic

Calling On Angels
Train

Glamorous
Fergie

Drive By
Train

Just Like Heaven
Katie Melua

Daughters
John Mayer

Other Books by Fifi Flowers
-All Standalone Books-

A Window to Love, (Book 1, Windows Series)

Reclining Nude in Chicago, (Book 1, Encounters Series)

Awakening to You Trilogy: Complete Story

A Window to Love

(Book 1, Windows Series)

Melissa Bennette, a young beautiful woman who has tragically lost her parents in a devastating plane crash, is set to spend another Christmas holiday alone until one night as she gazes into the dressed up holiday windows of New York City and her path crosses with the gorgeous man of her dreams.

Evan Duke is the world’s top male model, dreamed about and wanted by women everywhere, but he only has eyes for her.

This erotic tale of twists, turns and surprises stretches from twinkling lights of New York to the sun drenched beaches of Santa Monica to the art world of Paris. With each destination, the layers of their lives and closely held secrets fall away as a beautiful love grows out of the weeds of self doubt and heartbreak.

This book contains sexually explicit material and is intended for adult readers only.

A Window to Love, (Book 1, Windows Series)

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Reclining Nude in Chicago

(Book 1, Encounter Series)

Set to interview Matisse expert and curator Pierce Marten in a Chicago loft, freelance art writer Julia Van Rothfelder is mistaken for an artist’s life model.

Finding herself reclining nude posing for a handsome casually dressed curator, nothing like what she had imagined, a well-groomed man in a business suit enters the artist loft.

As Julia surveys the two men standing before her, she wonders…

Who is the new man?

Who is the man behind the canvas?

And better question, why am I nude?

***BONUS MATERIAL***

Taming the Curator

This book contains sexually explicit material and is intended for adult readers only

Reclining Nude in Chicago, (Book 1, Encounter Series)

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Awakening to You Trilogy

Complete Story

Sofie James is a successful set designer, trying to break into the male dominated production design realm and lacking any personal obligations she sees a clear path to success.

Drake Blaxton is a senior partner in an architectural firm who has always been focused and grounded in his career while completely noncommittal in his personal life.

A chance encounter at their favorite pond.

A fateful storm that could change everything.

What happens when Sofie and Drake’s worlds collide into each other, awakening a thundering passion that neither were ever open to having?

This book contains sexually explicit material and is intended for adult readers only

Awakening to You Trilogy: Complete Story

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Acknowledgements

To ma maman, thank you for all your support. I love you!

A special thanks to my friends: Kim, Susan of Wicked Women Book Blog, Michele, Andrea, Amy, Nelle and Isabelle for supporting me even though I abandoned the book world, and for encouraging me to return to writing. I’m thrilled to have new books to share with you and thank you all for sharing them with your friends and the book world.

Jacquelyn, my editor and friend, thank you for reintroducing me to editing 101, and making me laugh.

Paul at BB ebooks, thank you, thank you… I love that I have new books to throw your way, and I love how quickly you fix them perfectly.

Kellie Dennis at Book Cover by Design, thank you for creating another lovely book cover.

Jen of Just One More Page, thank you for organizing my Just A Number cover reveal and after release boost gifted to me by the one and only DJSuze AKA Susan Garwood.

Mary of Love Between the Sheets, thank you for organizing the Just A Number book blitz.

Thank you to all of you wonderful Book Bloggers that have made my books more visible, your support is truly, truly appreciated more than you could ever know.

Most importantly, thank you to my faithful readers for loving my books!

About the Author

While daydreaming of her time spent sipping cafe creme in the cafes of Paris, Fifi Flowers, an internationally known artist turn author from the Los Angeles area of California, writes romance novels and paints fantasies with a Parisian flair.

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