My Mind's Eye (Pub Fiction #1)

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My Mind’s Eye

by
Gillian Jones

Copyright © 2015 Gillian Jones

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Gillian Jones is in no way affiliated with any brands, songs, musicians or artists mentioned in this book.

First eBook edition: June 2015

Edited by Hot Tree Edits and Deliciously Wicked Editing

Cover design ©: Book Covers by Ashbee designs

Image: Dollar Photo

Formatting by Paul Salvette

About the Book

Ryker

She is the epitome of the girl next door, but with a feistiness that makes my dick throb.

I’m drawn to her like no other. She stirs things in me I have no desire to feel, makes me long for things I shouldn’t.

This is my game. I choose the players, and I never play for keeps.

I don’t believe in fate. I make my own destiny. I work hard and play harder. Luck is for pussies, karma for idiots. Me, I make shit happen.

Meeting her fucked up my plan. Threw me off my game.

I’m now face to face with my karma. Her name is Kat Rollins.

Kat

Ryker Eddison is the epitome of a player. You know the type: Mr. Get In and Get Out.

He’s all about the chase, wanting just one night. Everyone knows this—I know this. Still, I find myself craving him, my greedy body betraying what my heart and mind already know:
he will only bring me pain.

He’s the guy who girls like me should avoid. I’m smart; I know better. But when I’m with him, I feel things I’ve never felt before. Things I never knew I wanted.

I can’t deny it … I like the chase. The high is explosive, but I’m afraid if I give in, I may end up losing more than I can handle: my heart.

Dedication

To my incredibly patient and loving husband and son,

thank you for ignoring me while I ignored you.

You guys are my everything.

Thanks for letting Mommy try on this hat.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

About the Book

Dedication

My Mind’s Eye Playlist

Prologue: Kat

Chapter 1: Kat

Chapter 2: Kat

Chapter 3: Kat

Chapter 4: Ryker

Chapter 5: Kat

Chapter 6: Ryker

Chapter 7: Kat

Chapter 8: Kat

Chapter 9: Kat

Chapter 10: Kat

Chapter 11: Ryker

Chapter 12: Kat

Chapter 13: Kat

Chapter 14: Ryker

Chapter 15: Kat

Chapter 16: Ryker

Chapter 17: Ryker

Chapter 18: Kat

Chapter 19: Ryker

Chapter 20: Kat

Chapter 21: Ryker

Chapter 22: Kat

Chapter 23: Ryker

Chapter 24: Kat

Chapter 25: Ryker

Chapter 26: Kat

Chapter 27: Ryker

Chapter 28: Kat

Chapter 29: Ryker

Chapter 30: Kat

Chapter 31: Ryker

Chapter 32: Kat

Chapter 33: Kat

Chapter 34: Kat

Chapter 35: Ryker

Chapter 36: Kat

Chapter 37: Ryker

Chapter 38: Kat

Chapter 39: Ryker

Chapter 40: Kat

Chapter 41: Ryker

Chapter 42: Kat

Chapter 43: Ryker

Chapter 44: Ryker

Chapter 45: Kat

Chapter 46: Ryker

Chapter 47: Kat

Chapter 48: Ryker

Chapter 49: Kat

Chapter 50: Kat

Chapter 51: Kat

Chapter 52: Kat

Chapter 53: Ryker

Chapter 54: Kat

Chapter 55: Kat

Chapter 56: Kat

Chapter 57: Kat

Chapter 58: Ryker

Chapter 59: Kat

Chapter 60: Ryker

Chapter 61: Ryker

Chapter 62: Kat

Chapter 63: Ryker

Chapter 64: Kat

Chapter 65: Ryker

Chapter 66: Kat

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

My Mind’s Eye Playlist

Can be found on Spotify

Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud

Sohodolls – Stripper

Sarah McLachlan – In Your Shoes

Delerium – Silence – Acoustic

The Tea Party – Heaven Coming Down

Queens Of The Stone Age – Make It Wit Chu

Paula Cole – Feelin’ Love

City and Colour – Sleeping Sickness

Tyler Ward & Anna Clendening – Stay With Me

Chris Cornell – Can’t Change Me

112 – Only You-Bad Boy Remix (feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Mase)

Disclosure – Latch

Sam Smith – Like I Can

Haim – The Wire

Britney Spears – Toxic

Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter

Kelis – Milkshake

JAY Z – Always Be My Sunshine

Kings Of Leon – Be Somebody

3 Doors Down – Here Without You

Big Wreck – Blown Wide Open

Hedley – Perfect

Hedley – For The Nights I Can’t Remember – Live

The Flys – Got You (Where I Want You)

Deftones – Change [In The House Of Flies]

Passenger – Let Her Go

My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade

Ray LaMontagne – You Are the Best Thing

Van Morrison – Into The Mystic

Van Morrison – Crazy Love

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (featuring the Gulu Widows Choir)

Mark Morrison – Return Of The Mack

Maroon 5 – This Love

Bruno Mars – Locked Out Of Heaven

Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man

Zara McFarlane – Open Heart

Ella Henderson – Hard Work

Rita Ora – I Will Never Let You Down

Xavier Rudd – Love Comes And Goes

John Butler Trio – Used To Get High

Ryan Star – My Life With You

Hey Monday – How You Love Me Now

Coldplay – A Sky Full of Stars

Hozier – Take Me to Church

112 – Only You-Bad Boy Remix (feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Mase)

Prologue

Kat

April

M
y ears acknowledge the shrill sound of an alarm blaring in the distance. The annoying sound disturbs the little sleep I was finally getting. “Claire, shut off your bloody alarm clock. It’s Saturday, for Pete’s sake.” I huff in annoyance.

It isn’t until I turn over on my side, nuzzling deeper into my duvet, I register my best friend and roommate’s unfamiliar tone—
panic
.
She sounds panicked.

Claire is on my bed yelling at me.

“Kat! Kat, come on, come…fuck!” she shouts, tossing my covers aside. She’s trying to jerk me up and out of my bed without an ounce of patience or care. “Kat, I need you to wake the fuck up.” Claire yanks on my arms, and continues to yell at me.
What the fuck?

“Get the hell up already, Kat. We need to get the fuck outta here, like, now!” She uses a force unlike any I’ve ever known her to possess, and it propels me out of my cozy cocoon to an up-and-unsteady position, one that lands me with half of my body on the bed, the other half on the floor.

“For God’s sake, Claire, what the hell are you doing? Are you drunk?” Without a word or time for me to catch my bearings, Claire pulls me up so I’m standing face-to-face with her.

“We need to get the fuck out of here, I said. Shut up and move. Follow my lead, Kat, and stay close.” Before I can respond or ask why, Claire grabs my hand and with stubborn determination, leads me out of our tenth floor Brock University dorm.

Smoke.
Is that smoke I smell?

I’m still groggy, but as the adrenaline from being awoken so abruptly by this harsh version of Claire starts to weave its way into my system, I’m becoming more alert and aware of my immediate surroundings. I notice more and more students, all moving frantically and rushing in scattered directions, vacating the dorms as quickly as possible.

“Oh my God! Claire, do you smell smoke? I think I smell smoke. Holy shit, Claire, the dorms, they’re on fire!” I assault her ear with information she clearly already knows. As we walk, I begin to fully register what’s going on. Desperation is taking over as I try to inch in closer to Claire’s back, as if being closer to her will protect me. Instinctively, my feet are trying to make my body pick up its pace. My fight-or-flight instincts are kicking in. It’s like they know we need to get fucking moving.
My flight instinct always wins
.

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