AUTHOR: JAY V JONES
NEW RELEASE!
“PHAT GIRL is a contemporary romance about the complicated relationship between self-image and love, the power of female friendship, and the courage it takes to choose yourself. It is a reminder that personal growth does not guarantee a perfect love story, but it can change the kind of love you are willing to accept.”
PROLOGUE
Kayla had mastered the art of looking happy. She knew when to smile, when to laugh, and how to turn an uncomfortable moment into a joke before anyone noticed it had hurt her. She knew how to celebrate her friends’ relationships while quietly wondering why love always seemed to find its way to everyone but her. She knew how to walk into a room with her head held high, even when a small voice inside her whispered that she would never be the woman someone truly wanted.What she had never learned was how to stop believing that voice.Every morning brought another opportunity to reinvent herself. A new outfit. A different hairstyle. A little more makeup. A promise to eat better, exercise harder, and finally become the woman she imagined she needed to be before someone could love her.
Table of Contents
Introduction …………………………………. v
Prologue ……………………………………… 1
Chapter 1: The Power of Friendship ……………. 3
Chapter 2: Where Loyalty Lives ………………. 13
Chapter 3: Girls, Men, and the Mess Between ……. 17
Chapter 4: Lines We Don’t Cross ………………. 27
Chapter 5: Wine, Work, and the Weight of Secrets .. 33
Chapter 6: Barcelona Nights ………………….. 39
Chapter 7: Trying to Be Enough ……………….. 45
Chapter 8: A Man’s Prowess on Full Display …….. 49
Chapter 9: The Women Who Walk Away ……………. 59
Chapter 10: The Shift He Didn’t See Coming ……… 63
Chapter 11: Empty Rooms ……………………… 67
Chapter 12: The Coffee Shop Moment ……………. 75
Chapter 13: Fragments of the Women He Lost …….. 79
Chapter 14: A Man in Transition ………………. 85
Chapter 15: When Paths Start Moving …………… 91
Chapter 16: Close Enough to Touch …………….. 97
Chapter 17: Day One Hurts ……………………. 103
Chapter 18: The Hunger, the Heat, and the Hard Truths … 109
Chapter 19: Attention She Never Asked For ……… 119
Chapter 20: The Night They Don’t Pretend ………. 127
Chapter 21: Closer Than Either Planned ………… 135
Chapter 22: The Woman Who Walks In Now ………… 147
Chapter 23: The Man She Was Really Waiting For …. 153
About the Author ……………………………….. 159
