Knight unfinished hero5/24/2023 Knight teaches Anya that, just as with the bad, in life you should also expect the good. But when Anya comes to his nightclub and finds herself in a situation, he knows someone has to look after her, he can’t fight it anymore and he decides that man will be him. Knight tries to leave Anya to the life she deserves of white picket fences and a man who watches football on Sundays – good, normal and clean. But he never expected something as sweet as Anya Gage to wander into his bedroom during a party he did not expect to be having to borrow his phone. Knight Sebring knows who he is, what he wants and what he likes. Then she finds herself at a party where she doesn’t want to be and she meets Knight. Published by Self-Published on April 7, 2012Īnya Gage has learned that to get anything good in life, you have to work for it.
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