Never Backing Off

Never Backing Off A Forbidden Love Romance C. R. Lee C. R. Lee Books Copyright Copyright © 2023 by C. R. Lee Books All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without written permission from the publisher or author, except in the case of brief quotations used in book-related articles or reviews or as permitted by U.S. copyright law. This is a work of fiction. The characters, places and events portrayed in this book are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Cover design by Donovan Valdes Proofreading by Charity Chimni Contents 1. There’s No Place Like Home Emma 2. You Will Self-Destruct in 3... 2... 1... Emma 3. Will Work for Pizza Dante 4. When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Mandarin Orange Vodka Lemonade Emma 5. Fire and Brimstone at Twelve O’Clock. Dante 6. Inflatable Emma Emma 7. A Geek, a Guitarist and a Quarterback Walk Into a Bar… Dante 8. A Night for Alcohol and Bad Decisions Emma 9. Pervy is as Pervy Does Dante 10. Beauty and the Geek Emma 11. I’m So Not Cut Out for This Dante 12. Whips and Chains and Herpes. Oh, My! Emma 13. Get Your Head Out of the Gutter Dante 14. Badass Bitch at Your Service Emma 15. Too Long Coming (Pun Intended) Dante 16. The Lady Doth Protest Too Much Emma 17. Saved by the Herpes Dante 18. I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing Emma 19. What Did the Bird Say When It Flew Over Dante? Cheap, Cheap. Dante 20. Fun With Science! Emma 21. There's Rock Bottom and Then There's This Dante 22. The Words I Cannot Say Emma 23. So... That Happened Dante 24. When It Rains... Emma 25. There’s Dumb, and Dumber, and Then, There’s Dante Dante 26. It Pours Emma 27. Too Little, Too Late Dante 28. Screw Ice Cream. Bring On the Tequila. Emma 29. Time Flies When You’re Having Fun. It Crawls When You’re A Miserable Fucking Wreck. Dante 30. Badass Bitch 2.0 Emma 31. A Call to Action Dante 32. One Last Chance Emma 33. Hey, Ma, Look What I Found… Dante 34. A Superhero in Stilettos Emma One Month Later... Emma Also by C. R. Lee Wanna Hang! Acknowledgments About Author one There’s No Place Like HomeEmmaStanding, half-soaked in a shower so small it might as well be a coffin, scrubbing vomit from my mom’s hair wasn’t exactly how I’d pictured my morning. Hell, it wasn’t exactly how I’d pictured my life. But it is what it is. No use bitching about two You Will Self-Destruct in 3... 2... 1...EmmaNot that rushing did a single damn thing for me. I swear, whatever demon/corrupt government official is in charge of stoplights has a vendetta against me, because nobody’s luck is that bad. Then again, perhaps the gods of crappy daughters are punishing me