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    A Chaotic Christmas
    A Chaotic Christmas
    A Chaotic Christmas
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    A Chaotic Christmas

    By Jamie K. Schmidt

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    Last Christmas, Becca gave Justin her heart. The very next day, they were married in Vegas by Elvis.

    A few days after that, her mother-in-law from hell ruined everything.  Now a year later, Becca has flown to London to get the divorce papers signed.  But Justin isn't giving up on Becca.  No way. No how.

     

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    This short story is best enjoyed with some Christmas cookies and a glass of mulled wine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJamie K. Schmidt
    Release dateNov 5, 2021
    ISBN9798201521837
    A Chaotic Christmas
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    Jamie K. Schmidt

    Jamie K. Schmidt is a three-time USA Today Bestseller for her steamy romances Life's A Beach, Heat, and The Cowboy's Daughter.  Jamie’s books have been called, “hot and sexy, with just the right amount of emotional punch,” and “turbo-paced, gritty, highly sexual thrill rides.” As a #1 Amazon and Barnes and Noble best seller and a 2018 Romance Writers of America Rita® finalist in erotica, Jamie writes daily, drinks lots of tea, and sneaks away to play video games whenever she makes her deadlines. Along with her husband who lets her stick magnetic signs on his car about her books and her fifteen-year-old son who wants to be her cover model, Jamie lives in Connecticut with her two cats who hate each other and a dog who just wants to be cuddled up on a blanket.

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      A Chaotic Christmas - Jamie K. Schmidt

      Chapter One

      Becca Martin had her divorce papers in hand and was waiting outside her ex-husband’s office.  The fact that his secretary didn’t even know who she was, worked in her favor. Justin had been refusing to sign the divorce papers all year, so she decided to show up to his office unannounced and demand that he end this sham of a marriage.  Becca married Justin Martin last December in Vegas.  There might have been alcohol involved, and a preacher dressed up as Elvis.  And boy, what a honeymoon they had.

      Then it all went to shit.

      Becca was a dancer.  She had been a Rockette, danced in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance revival in the O2 theatre in London, and done the can can in the Moulin Rouge in Paris. And yes, she did a stint as a showgirl in Las Vegas, where she had met Justin Martin, a British financier on vacation. So what if her skirt was a little too short, her heels a little too high, and she wore red lipstick like it was a weapon?  She was not a Vegas, gold digging whore like her mother-in-law said.  And these divorce papers proved it.

      And Justin had the nerve to be mad about how it went down.  Okay, maybe she could have handled it better.  But when he had let his mother say all those nasty things about her, Becca had snapped.  She slapped the old bitch across the face and then stole Justin’s car and drove cross country to New Hampshire, where she spent the worst Christmas of her life.  Her two sisters were madly in love with their fiancés and it had been really difficult to be around the lovebirds.

      But that was almost a year ago.  He got his car back just fine, with his mother’s Christmas present in it—a diamond tiara.  And they had decided on a cooling off period.  Well, there was cooling off and there was cooling off.  When they saw each other again in late January, they were still pissed at each other.  It didn’t stop them from ripping each other’s clothes off and having another What Happens in Vegas weekend.

      She refused to see him on Valentine’s Day.  He was no longer mad.  She still was.  He showed up after her show in March and it was wash-rinse-repeat of January.  The whole rest of the year went like that.  It had to stop.  They were legally married, but a once a month booty call didn’t set the foundation for a solid relationship.  Coupled with the

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