Author: lillianaanderson

Before Sam, I was the most boring, awkward and level-headed person you’ve ever met. I was my best friend’s side-kick, the supporting actress to another person’s life. And I was OK like that. I was lonely. But I was OK. Then I met Sam. Our eyes locked and BANG my heart started beating. As my blood warmed and pumped around my body, everything changed. Before that moment, I had been as dead inside … as dead inside as the stiffs I applied make-up to in the mortuary. Now I was alive, experiencing things for the first time, enamoured with a…

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‘Some husbands bought their wives flowers, others bought jewellery. Mine? He returned the things he stole.’I should have known better. Hot guys didn’t hit on big girls without an agenda. They didn’t approach them in bars and talk their way into your bed. They also didn’t make you feel beautiful and proud of your curves. But I was going through a dry spell—actually, I’d kind of been going through … kind of been going through a dry spell all my life—and dry spells sucked. Of course I slept with him.I was such a fool. I believed his lines. Fell for…

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“This is highly inappropriate.” “Why?” he rumbled in my ear. “Because you’re so young, and because I’m now your boss.” “That just makes it more exciting.” Not even a year after marrying the guy she’d thought was the love of her life, Cora Knowles is already requesting a divorce. To her recollection, philandering was not a part of her wedding vows, and she wasn’t about to stand by while ‘Sally … stand by while ‘Sally from accounts’ rolled about on her Egyptian cotton sheets. While trying to soothe her broken heart with copious amounts of cake and liqueur chocolates, her…

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I didn’t ask to slip on a piece of gum then fall in love with a man who would die before the ink was dry on our marriage certificate. But that’s what fate had in store and it broke me. I vowed I would never fall in love again. Five years later, fate has one more thing in store for me. It wants to play around in my life again. Its tool? Another blasted stick of gum. Same place, only this time, it … this time, it was Jude Baker, a university lecturer, who slipped on the gum. Despite being a pacifist, he…

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