Ante Up (High Stakes, #1)

by Christina C. Jones

Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy. If you lose, you’ll be wiser.

Men’s kindness never came without a price. I’d learned that lesson from an early age, watching the gendered interactions of the people around me. Women gave. Men took. Sometimes, they afforded you a lifestyle that made it worth the sacrifice. But, invariably, there was a price. Women paid with their bodies, their health, their time, their sanity, their money, for the privilege of having a man to take these things, and sometimes it was good enough to seem like an investment.