All Over You (Unforgettable You, Book 1.5)

ALL OVER YOU

Beverley Kendall

Copyright © Beverley Kendall 2013

Published by Season Publishing LLC 

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is completely coincidental.

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Dedication

To the love of my life, Ryan.

Mommy loves you always.

Acknowledgments

I want to thank my editor, Kristin Anders of
theRomanticEditor.com
. Thanks, Kristin, for the great job you did at pointing out everything that needed fixing. I’d also like to thank all my wonderful fans who gave my new adult romance novel,
 
ONLY FOR YOU
(aka When in Paris)
a try even though they weren’t interested or/and had never read the genre before. Your support is much appreciated and will never be forgotten. Kim, you nailed the cover. Absolutely LOVE IT!

Note to Readers

I started this book with the thought that it would be a quick novella that would be no longer than 25,000 words. It was intended to be a not too complicated story about Rebecca and Scott, characters first introduced in
ONLY FOR YOU
(formerly
 When in Paris
)
.
 
Well Rebecca and Scott were determined that their story would not to be limited to a short word count and their story ended up being nearly twice as long as first intended (44,000 words).

At the end of the day,
ALL OVER YOU
(formerly 
Those Nights in Montreal
)
 
turned out to be a short novel (or a rather long novella) because Rebecca and Scott’s story ended up being more involved than I first thought. However, their story can still stand on its own and doesn’t require you to have read
ONLY FOR YOU.

I hope you enjoy this story of second chances as Rebecca and Scott give their relationship—and love—another go.

An ex is an ex for a reason

To Rebecca Winters, it’s not just a saying or the title to a catchy tune, it’s a rule she staunchly lives by. Especially since the breakup with 
her
ex. What’s the point in trying to fix the “unfixable”? Besides, only a girl hell-bent on
more
 heartbreak would go back to the guy who bailed on her when she needed him most. But saying no to Scott is becoming more difficult than surviving the breakup itself. And unfortunately for her, the kind of pressure he's exerting is making her 
rule
 all too easy to break.

Scott Carver has given up trying to get over his ex. He’s still in love with her and their year apart has done nothing to change that. Yeah, he knows he screwed up. Just 
how
 royally, he wasn't aware of until now. So when Becca agrees to give him a second chance, he grabs on to it with both hands. But it’s clear the only way things will ever truly be right between them is if he comes clean…about everything. He can only pray the truth doesn’t send her running—for good this time.

Table of Contents

Also By Beverley Kendall

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Epilogue

Only For You

Excerpt

Always Been You

Also by Beverley Kendall

New Adult Romance

Unforgettable You Series

Only For You

~*~*~

Historical Romances

The Elusive Lords Series

Sinful Surrender
A Taste of Desire
All’s Fair in Love & Seduction (Free enovella)
An Heir of Deception

CHAPTER ONE

R
EBECCA

When I’m getting dressed to go out, let me tell you what I don’t need. I don’t need my mother acting as my conscience. Which, by the way, works perfectly fine. It’s just discriminating, as it should be.

Maybe
she
can forgive John Reardon for what he did—or I should say what he didn’t do—but
I
can’t.

I won’t.

And guess what? I don’t have to.

He’s not
her
father. And by father, I mean that in the loosest definition of the word, because apparently that’s the word still being used to describe men whose only contribution to the process is that of sperm donor.

I don’t have a “father”. Never have. And I don’t want one now.

Bottom line: no amount of cajoling is going to get me to change my mind about giving him another chance. I said all I had to say to him when he first contacted me over three years ago.

Happy sweet sixteen, Becky.

Right.
Just the birthday gift I’d been hoping for. About six years and three father/daughter dances past the stage when I stopped giving a damn about wanting any sort of relationship with him.

I give myself a vigorous headshaking in an effort to clear it of the conversation I had with my mom a half-hour ago. I’m not even trying to think about
him
. It’s Friday night and I came out with my roommate and best friend, Olivia, and her boyfriend Zach with only one goal in mind: to enjoy the hell out of myself.

I glance over at them, her tucked tightly into his side, his arms around her waist. Olivia is slim, pretty and blonde and her boyfriend is no slouch either. He’s the starting quarterback of Warwick’s football team, and he’s dark-haired, light-blue eyed and gorgeous with a capital
G
. As you can imagine, they make a nauseatingly beautiful couple. It’s a good thing they’re my very good friends or I’d be forced to hate them if only for that reason.

Seriously, what I need is a guy. The hotter the better, and preferably not already taken. But like Pavlov’s dog, my mind instantly conjures up an image of my ex.

Damn Scott.

A year later and the term hot and Scott are still hopelessly entwined in my mushier-than-oatmeal brain. Maybe it’s the whole rhyming thing.

Or maybe I’m thinking about him because lately he’s been driving me
insane
. I swear, these days every time I turn around, he’s there watching me in this brooding sort of way and looking annoyingly sexy while he’s at it. Honestly, it’s enough to drive a girl to drink. A lot.

Anyway, that’s what tonight is all about: going out, having fun and hooking up with a super-hot, leave-Scott-in-the-dust guy. I refuse to spend another weekend like I’ve spent too many this last year: smiling on the outside and going through the motions of moving forward, when inside I’m standing absolutely still.

I
need
to move on with my life.

Scott and I are over. Done.
Finis
. Kaput. Our relationship coffin has long been nailed shut. And I should know because I’m the one who’d swung the hammer hard enough to make it impossible for even a crowbar to pry the damn thing back open.

Time. To. Move. On. Rebecca.

Which is exactly what I plan—correction—what I am
going
to do tonight.

“
What about you, Rebecca?”

Olivia’s voice filters through my internal-grumblings-cum-pep-talk and it’s Scott’s fault that I don’t have a clue what she’s talking about.

“
Come again?” I ask, placing my palm behind my ear, pretending I didn’t hear her because the noise of the party is the issue and not the fact that my mind has been hijacked by thoughts of my no-good ex.