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    Night & Day
    Night & Day
    Night & Day
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    Night & Day

    By Bethany Lopez

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    One explosive weekend together nearly ruined them.

    Now, a year later, Simone had perfected the art of keeping Micah at arms length.

    Micah wants to explain, but the wall Simone has erected is impossible to get around, until a city wide blackout gives him the opportunity he needs.

    There's no way Simone and Micah can ignore their chemistry when they're alone in the dark, but will she still want him when the lights come on?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBethany Lopez
    Release dateApr 17, 2019
    ISBN9780463925836
    Night & Day
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    Bethany Lopez

    Bethany Lopez is a USA Today Bestselling author of more than thirty books and has been published since 2011. She's a lover of all things romance, which she incorporates into the books she writes, no matter the genre.When she isn't reading or writing, she loves spending time with family and traveling whenever possible.Bethany can usually be found with a cup of coffee or glass of wine at hand, and will never turn down a cupcake!Sign up for her newsletter and get a free eBook! https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r7w3w5

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      Night & Day - Bethany Lopez

      Night & Day

      Night & Day

      A Time for Love Series Novella

      Bethany Lopez

      Night & Day

      Copyright 2019 Bethany Lopez

      Published April 2019

      ISBN: 9781093344462

      Cover Design by Opium House Creatives

      Editing by Red Road Editing / Kristina Circelli

      Formatting by Bethany Lopez

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please don’t participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      For the ladies of Blackout: A Romance Anthology. It was truly a joy working with all of you and creating this world together.

      Contents

      1. Simone

      2. Micah

      3. Simone

      4. Micah

      5. Simone

      6. Micah

      7. Simone

      8. Micah

      9. Simone

      10. Micah

      11. Simone

      12. Micah

      13. Simone

      14. Micah

      15. Simone

      16. Micah

      Epilogue

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      About the Author

      Also by Bethany Lopez

      Night & Day was originally released in the Blackout Anthology. Here are books by other authors for that set!

      Simone

      Ilooked around the dimly lit bar. It was a good crowd tonight. The customers were happy. Mostly drunk, but happy … and the girls were really on their game. Diamond’s routine to the new Halsey hit had the guys in the front row practically drooling in their draft beers.

      Every once in a while, on a night like this, I missed being on stage. Then I’d catch sight of a particularly wasted dude in his sixties with his hand indiscreetly down his pants, and the moment passed.

      Simone.

      I turned my head toward the bar to see Carlos, one of the bartenders, calling me over.

      I eased off of the wall I’d been leaning on, partially hidden in the dark, and sauntered over to him.

      Sure, I was a manager now, and my clothes stayed on, but I still had an image to project. The same image that had gotten me this far in an industry that ate women alive. Untouchable, supreme bitch of the club, the one woman all the men wanted, but couldn’t have.

      I’d almost broken a guy’s wrist once when he’d grabbed my ass after a show and Big Mike, the owner, had fucking loved it. He called me his secret weapon, his prized possession.

      Of course, no one owned me but myself and everyone knew it … including Big Mike. But, I was a draw and as long as I was, Big Mike would do just about anything to keep me around, including agreeing to promote me.

      I’d been working here almost six years, which made me one of the senior girls, so no one said shit when I became the boss. They were used to me calling the shots already.

      What’s up? I asked Carlos when I was close enough for him to hear me.

      Micah’s on break and Gina just went to the bathroom, you think you could run and get me a fifth of Johnny Walker out of the back?

      Black?

      Yeah. Thanks, Carlos said and went back to helping customers, of which there were many.

      I hurried into the back, down the corridor, and out the door as comfortable in heels as I’d be in flip-flops. Our dry storage was actually in a separate room that you could only get to from outside of the club.

      I unlocked and pulled open the door, careful to prop it open with the doorstop. The door had been broken for ages and if it shut behind you, you were stuck until the next time someone opened the door. I’d been on Big Mike to get it fixed, but he was allergic to anything that cost money.

      I grabbed the bottle, annotated it on the inventory sheet, and left the storeroom, shutting the door firmly behind me and making sure I locked it.

      As I headed back inside, I wondered how long Micah had been on break. Even with Gina, Carlos wasn’t going to be able to keep the customers happy for long. Micah was the lead bartender, the bane of my existence, and the man who’d broken my heart.

      Seems like his breaks are getting longer and longer, I muttered bitterly, brushing off the possibility that I was so annoyed because he’d been taking his breaks lately with a certain redhead.

      Here you go, Carlos, I called as I put the bottle behind the counter.

      I got quickly out of the way, surveying the room as I walked the club.

      Emerald was currently up and when I heard the chorus of the song, I grinned, knowing she was about to rip her dress down the front and would have these men eating out of the palm of her hand, and throwing bills at her, in mere seconds.

      I’d shown her how to use scissors to cut a starter in the bosom of her dress, so when it was time to rip it off, it would come off smoothly and not throw off her mojo by getting snagged, or worse have her up there trying to get it to rip and looking like an idiot when it stayed intact.

      I swear you could hear that rip clear across the Strip and the crowd went wild.

      When I turned

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