Bad Reputations: A steamy, celebrity romance (The Breaking Through Series Book 1) Read online

  Bad Reputations

  The Breaking Through Series Book 1

  Barbara DeLeo

  Foreword

  This title was previously published, in part, as Dishing up Desire.

  Contents

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Desperate Measures ~ Ellie’s story

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  Prologue

  The Breaking Through series

  And now I’d like you to take a moment to centre yourself, look deep within your most secret places to determine the barriers that you’re unconsciously putting in your way to success in life.”

  Bah . . . loney!

  Kirin Hart yanked out the ear pods that still carried the softly irritating voice of Sapphire Green - Whole Life Coach - and skated them across her desk. Surely she wasn’t the only one in this online coaching session to have aching molars every time Sapphire asked them to “dig beneath your fragile facade” and “stop stroking your immature ego.”

  Kirin blew away her bangs with a hot breath and leaned back in her chair. She scanned the names of the twenty-four other people on this call. Were they women? Men? Business people? Students?

  Sapphire had insisted everyone would be completely anonymous, so people had some wildly made-up names. There was “BlueWolverine” who was trying to learn how to be assertive with their mother-in-law; “Lucy Lu” who was trying to decide if they should change careers; and Kirin’s favorite “Bottomless Brenda” who was having some complex family issues she wanted to address once and for all.

  Kirin clicked on the icon next to Brenda’s name and a separate chat window popped up.

  Kirin: How’s your flimsy facade looking, Brenda?

  A notification popped up that indicated Bottomless Brenda was typing.

  Bottomless Brenda: