My book is free on Amazon this weekend only!
Hey, everyone!
My book ‘It’s Complicated: Confessions of a Modern Day Cinderella’ is available for free this weekend only on Amazon worldwide.
Posting an excerpt from Chapter One below,
‘So I took my boyfriend’s credit card and went to the most expensive hotel I could find from my five-minute Internet search. My resolution is to find out what his card limit is, obliterate his daily allowance until I feel numb, and erase from my mind the grotesque image of him kissing another girl. My friend Sarah is keeping me company and also trying to keep my mental stability in check so I don’t go around breaking things in a full on rage fit.
At reception acting a bit more drunk than I actually am I request the most expensive room they have. So that’s booked. Bummer! Next one down it is. I am maybe a bit too excited, sweet revenge is doing something to me. Clearly when he finds out he’ll be super pissed off and then we could potentially have the most amazing sex ever or just break up. Whatever, really! At this moment I just want to let go, free myself of all those silly emotional attachments that serve no other purpose but to break my heart over and over again. I want to be strong, I want to feel strong, and most importantly, I want to finally say ‘no’ to bloody hormones controlling my life. I’m not the cute doll face I always appear to be, the doll that’s suddenly going to break. I’m finally my true unperturbed by mere circumstances self and it’s awesome. What alcohol does to a person! It’s magnificent! I have all of this creative energy within me, feel like a complete goddess, and that’s when I’m in a state when normal people would probably be falling over because they can’t keep their damn balance. Oh, alcohol the great! I swear the thing needs a monument now!
Sorry, so I book this ridiculously expensive room, go in and…Oh my god, you know when you go somewhere and everything is so in place you just want to disrupt. And that’s nothing to do with me being potentially drunk, which I clearly am, you just want to disrupt because it’s way too perfect. I know it’s a hotel but it feels like a laboratory. Like what the hell! Music! That’s the first thing I need and I clearly don’t know a thing because the gazillion TV channels utterly confuse me. I turn on the radio instead and it’s nothing impressive, but since I don’t have the energy to search for something better at this particular moment it will do. Sarah is totally at home here, I clearly need more experience with such establishments.
Anyway, since I’m feeling all classy I actually want to listen to some opera, but maybe a cry fest might seem like a bad idea. Opera confuses me when I’m drunk and also makes me think of a certain someone who I should not be thinking about, since he did the naughty thing of shattering my heart into a million pieces beyond repair. Oh, that escalated quickly! No opera for me then.
Suddenly I realize Sarah is not in the bedroom anymore. Confused, I wander to the bathroom and I find her checking the labels of the toiletries. She tells me something about their names I totally miss because suddenly my phone starts ringing. Well, that took its time. My so-called boyfriend must have finally realized his card was missing and now he is calling me. I mean he could just call the bank and cancel it. Then I would quickly get escorted out of the building. I suppose it’s the fact he cheated on me that stops him from going with the obvious choice. I shudder in disgust at the image of his face touching hers so intimately! God! I need brain bleach to erase the vile memory from my mind. Their lips were literally stuck together. Men! I suppose I don’t really understand them.
I mean sex is great. Absolutely worth shattering! And yet he cheats. He kisses another and lets me leave without a feasible attempt to stop me. I understand that he might have been confused and in shock, but give me a break! I was the one in utter agony at seeing them together, hand in hand, lips touching… Oh, I don’t even want to think about it anymore. Phone is off until tomorrow.
Now that my phone is off I realize I have no clue what to do. I try to maybe just relax and listen to music, but that’s easier said than done with my mind in a frenzied, uncontrollable turmoil.
Sarah finally gave up on me and went to the bar downstairs, so I’m pretty much left alone to my thoughts and the crappy music streaming from the radio station. Since my last thoughts were about men, let’s just circle back to that, as it’s the only thing bent on occupying my mind at the present moment.
My boyfriend (quite possibly an ‘ex’ by this point) spends way too much time in front of the mirror. That’s a problem. You know when you start looking at one of those fashion magazines and see all those dolled up guys. I know I’m in a substantial minority here, but I find absolutely nothing attractive about them. It’s hilarious really. I would have the ruggedly handsome anytime. Ruggedly handsome and rich, that’s my ideal man. Too bad my boyfriend also seems to be way too spoilt with attention. I refuse to try to understand and all judgement will be withheld. True, I might be entirely too selfish for his liking. I pretty much only do what I want in this relationship. He doesn’t really want much, though, so it’s not like I’ll try to initiate something. Heaven forbid he starts thinking I want more. We all know where pushy will get me. On second thought, being not pushy got me here, so maybe I should get back to you on that.
Finally, there’s a knock on the door.’
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Eve
