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Jasinda Wilder

Copyright (c) 2022 past Jasinda Wilder

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BADD LUCK

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious fashion. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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Cover art by Sarah Hansen of Okay Creations. Comprehend art copyright (c) 2022 Sarah Hansen.

ISBN: 978-1-941098-84-4

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Contents

Affiliate 1

Chapter 2

Affiliate 3

Chapter 4

Affiliate five

Chapter 6

Affiliate 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Affiliate eleven

Chapter 12

Chapter thirteen

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Epilogue

Bonus Content

Deleted Chapter 7

Deleted Chapter 8

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1

Tate

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"I don't care if this photographer is the best in the world, he's a sleazeball," I whispered to my twin, Aerie.

Aerie adjusted the top of the maroon tankini she was modeling, tugging information technology lower and assuming a different pose in the sand. "No kidding," she murmured back. "He's giving me the heebie-jeebies."

Nosotros were on location in the Caribbean area doing a shoot for a fashion manufacturer that was poised to get a very large bargain. It had been a last minute chore, the girls originally booked for the shoot having canceled at the terminal minute. Nosotros'd almost declined, simply our agent, Lacy, and our director--who was our mom--had insisted information technology would be great for our career. We were already reaching the height of the profession, and Lacy said this job would seal the deal. We decided nosotros would put a vacation on hold for a little while longer and, besides, wouldn't a chore in the Caribbean area be sort of similar a vacation?

So, hither we were on a cute beach, with a crew of people looking after our every need, yet both of us could hardly wait to accept a shower--and it wasn't considering of the oestrus, sand, and makeup.

I was wearing the same bathing suit every bit Aerie, although mine was a deep indigo color. The suits were part of a sleek new tankini line made by 1 of our Instagram sponsors, who was a new designer getting a lot of buzz.

I shifted my pose slightly, cartoon my left thigh upwards and leaning confronting Aerie. The photographer, who went by the proper name of Ulf, was a centre-anile man with a paunch he was desperately trying to hide forth with the bald spot on the back of his caput which did nothing for his skinny little manbun. He dropped to his knees in the sand, shimmied forwards, closer to Aerie and me, fishing his photographic camera just and then, snapping a dozen photographs in rapid succession before checking them. His ii administration stood by to concord reflectors and provide whichever camera or lens was needed.

"Very expert, very good," Ulf cooed. "At present, Aerie, I think y'all should sit up and play with your hair. Tate, become to your belly and await backwards at me."

Ulf watched--a niggling too closely, if you ask me--equally Aerie and I assumed the poses he'd suggested. His optics followed our every movement, whether through the viewfinder of his camera or not, and when we bent or shifted so our assets jiggled, he would adjust himself...and non subtly, either.

Ulf was the best photographer in the business concern, our manager insisted, and she told us to just do what he said and become the shoot over with. In other words, deal with Ulf being a sleazy perv. Don't insult him, don't call him out, just let him ogle you and snap his shots--deal with information technology. Just deal with it.

Easy for Mom to say, since she was our managing director, and all she had to do was suit our bookings and schmooze her manner around the various media events. She wasn't the one being ogled and photographed and leered at, since she was safe and sound in her New York penthouse with our dick of a pace-father, Bob.

We went through at least a dozen different outfits and a dozen unlike poses for each ane, all provocative, with Ulf snapping hundreds and hundreds of photographs. The sun rose higher equally the forenoon wore on and it got hotter and hotter. The glam squad had to constantly dab at the beads of sweat on our foreheads and reapply and retouch, and twist our pilus back into the perfect spirals, and continue the flyaways disordered down...and then yeah, modeling is not easy. Information technology really isn't. Information technology's a hell of a lot more than than only getting photographed.

As usual, we'd been patient and professional, doing all that was asked of us but, finally, my patience was running out.

"How many more shots do y'all need, Ulf?" I asked. "We've been here for iv hours now."

"We're almost done, my dearest, well-nigh done." He said this to my breasts as I stood upwardly. "Just a few more poses."

He moved over behind me, toying with my hair, twisting the strands only so. And then he bent and scooped up a scattering of sand, and smeared information technology over my butt so it stuck to the mucilaginous layer of sweat. He didn't just smear it on, though. Oh, no. He cupped, and squeezed, and petted, and got all kinds of handsy with me. I know ane of his assistants saw information technology happen as I heard him accept in a abrupt breath and complain "Jesus" under his breath. He stepped forward to diffuse the situation, only he was likewise wearisome.

Four hours in the hot sun on a Caribbean area embankment, dealing with the gallery of tourists watching us, sweating, without arts and crafts service, without coffee, without so much as fresh bottles of water, working our asses off and so, on top of it all, dealing with this former, overweight, leering asshole...

I just lost information technology.

I danced dorsum out of his reach, twisted around, and socked him square on the jaw. Have I mentioned that Aerie and I train three days a calendar week with the best Krav Maga teacher in New York? And then this pretty little model knows how to hit, and hit hard.

Ulf spun effectually similar a hippo in pointe shoes and striking the sand flat on his dorsum, camera bouncing off his chest. He was out cold.

"What at present, BITCH?" I shouted, stepping over him. "Take hold of my ass? I don't retrieve so!"

Aerie was the first to pull me away. "Tate, calm the hell down."

"Calm downwards? Calm down? He'due south been staring at my tits for the concluding four hours! And now he grabs my ass similar he owns it, and you tell me to calm downwardly?"

Lacy, our amanuensis, stepped quickly but advisedly beyond the sand in her four-inch-heel Louboutins. "Tate, what in the world has gotten into you?" she hissed, as she reached me.

"He grabbed my ass," I huffed. "And I don't mean a picayune, like, oops I accidentally copped a feel. It was a total-on grope."

"We talked about this, Tate," Lacy said, water ice in her voice. "I told you he can be hard merely he's the best in the business organization."

"I don't care!" I shouted. "That doesn't give him the correct to grope me."

"That's debatable, specially if you want to make information technology to the top. He can blacklist you lot, and no one volition photo y'all or Aerie e'er once again. He has that much influence in this business concern."

Aerie had my arm in a expiry grip. "I know it sucks, T, but..."

I whirled on her. "Oh, no. No. No. You are not going to turn on me right now, A. You lot're not. No. You are my twin. He groped me. This isn't dealing with your average sexism, this is goddamned sexual assault."

"Now that'south a little overly dramatic," Lacy said in her "let's be reasonable vocalisation".

I took two boring, prowling steps toward Lacy, which put me in her personal space. I stared at her, glaring with every last ounce of irate fury I possessed...which at that moment was quite a bit. There aren't ma

ny people who can stand upwardly to my patented decease glare, and Lacy Everett-Perkins is definitely not one of them.

"No, Lacy. It's not overly dramatic." I was speaking in my quiet-and-sharp-as-a-razor phonation. "Information technology's exactly the truth. When a homo--any man, famous or important or the all-time, or just an boilerplate dick on the street--puts his hands on my trunk without my permission, that is sexual assail. Ulf here--" I gestured at the photographer in question, who was starting to moan every bit he regained consciousness, "--touched me without my permission. He's lucky all I did was punch him. If I ever come across him over again, I'll intermission his damn arm, Lacy. How'due south that for melodramatic?"

"Tate!" Aerie hissed, hauling me aside. "What are y'all doing? We need this sponsor, which means we need this shoot, which ways nosotros need Ulf, like it or non."

"No, Aerie, we don't need Ulf, or the sponsor, or the shoot; they need united states of america. Vela Fashion is nobody. They're nothing correct now. Nobody has always heard of them. Nosotros, on the other hand, are among the most well-known Instagram models on the fucking planet. This shoot we're doing for Vela will put them on the map." I gestured at Ulf, and Lacy. "I'm non going to take this shit anymore, A. I'one thousand just not. I'thousand tapped out. I'grand done. The final shoot we did, what happened? Yous think?"

She sighed. "Of form I retrieve. The photographer propositioned you."

"He didn't just proffer me, A. He offered me 5 one thousand dollars to spend the night with him."

"That's propositioning you lot."

"That's him thinking I'k a fucking whore!" My temper was up, and once that happens, at that place's no calming me until my fury has diddled itself out. "And likewise, five thousand? Really? I'g not going to whore myself out to a poor, ugly, dumpy-donkey eye-aged fucking photographer, for one affair, and I certain as fuck wouldn't do information technology for any coin, never listen a measly 5 grand. I'm worth a hell of a lot more than than that."

Aerie sighed. "Tate, please." She was trying the sweetness and light routine, which, TBH, was often rather effective in talking me down from a temper tantrum. "Y'all're right virtually Ulf beingness a dirty sleazeball, and y'all're correct about not taking it. I'm with you on this, okay? I swear I am. I've been hit on and propositioned too. You know that. I just..." She rubbed her brow with a knuckle. "I don't want to become blacklisted. I don't know about you, just I'm not set to give this upward just however."

I groaned in irritation, considering I detest it when she'southward right, and I detest information technology even more than when she manages to diffuse my temper. I'll permit you in on a petty secret: deep down, I actually like getting all pissed off. It feels good to allow the anger out.

"Neither am I," I said, "but I'm not going to have that bullshit from anyone."

Ulf was staggering to his anxiety, rubbing his jaw, and the crew stood around not knowing what to practise. I would have put money on the fact that if they'd had to choose sides they wouldn't have sided with him.

He glared at me. "You'll never work again, slut. In fact, you lot two are washed in this business concern."

Aerie was the one who stomped over to him. Her paw shot out and clutched his testicles in a vise-like grip, making him go purple in the face up, gasping. "Or how about this, Ulf? You lot're going to shut your filthy oral cavity, and you lot're going to get your nasty ass out of here, and you're not going to say shit to anyone about Tate or me." Her vox was sweet as sugar, saccharine and dear and sunshine, making her words sting all the harder. "You know why you're going to do that, Ulf? Because if I hear you've been talking well-nigh us, I'thousand going to rip your teeny-tiny footling mouse-man balls off. You got me, Ulf? So take your camera, and your teeny-tiny little mouse-man balls, and but practice your fucking job. And, in example you've forgotten, your job is to accept pictures, Ulf. You lot don't get to bear on the models. In fact you don't even get to sniff the same air Tate and I exhale, Ulf." She released his sac, and he staggered backward, gasping, clutching himself, clearly struggling to hold back tears of agony.

With that she pivoted on her heel and swept past Ulf, the crew, and a stunned, silent Lacy. All she said was, "Let's go, T."

I followed her, trying badly to suppress my laughter. We walked up the beach, by the tourists who were clapping and giving us a thumbs-up, and made it out of sight of Lacy and Ulf, when I gave in to snickering, giggling hilarity.

"Oh my god, A! Teeny-tiny mouse-man balls?" I collapsed backward against the side of the tiki bar. "That was epic, seriously epic."

She let out a breath and shook her shaking easily, so laughed with me. "It was, wasn't it?"

"You don't even get to sniff the same air?" I said, through wheezing gasps of laughter. "Where did you lot come with that shit?"

"I don't know! I just lost it."

"I thought I was the one with the hair-trigger atmosphere?"

She shrugged. "Nobody calls my sister a slut but me."

I sighed. "Seriously, though, cheers for having my dorsum."

"I've e'er got your back, y'all know that." She peered around the corner, watching Lacy arguing vehemently with an enraged Ulf. "I call back we may accept just sunk our career, though."

"Nah. No way. We're too pretty for that."

Aerie only rolled her eyes at me. "Tate, looks can only become u.s. so far. If nosotros develop a reputation for assaulting our photographers, Ulf won't have to blacklist u.s., we'll do it to ourselves."

"Anybody knows Ulf is a handsy pervert," I said. "He may be the best photographer around which is why people work him in the first identify, but everybody knows who he is and what he is. We'll be fine."

Nosotros slipped into a hotel bar further up the beach and took seats, ordering coffee and breakfast burritos. As we waited for our food, we pulled out our phones and spent a few minutes just sitting quietly--it wouldn't be long before Lacy would come to discover usa. I eyed my twin. "And so, Aerie, now what?"

Aerie rolled a shoulder. "Our dear sweet momager has u.s.a. in Portland in three days for some kind of festival. And so we're back in Manhattan to shoot for Prada, I call up. Or possibly it's Mui Mui. Something like that, I don't call up right now. And so nosotros take that music video thing we're doing in Venice."

"Venice, Italia, or Venice, California?" I asked.

"Um. Italy, I call up? I don't know, now that you mention it."

I sipped my coffee and looked out at the body of water and thought almost the nonstop, itinerary our mother/director--or, momager, as Aerie chosen her--had us scheduled for. I felt overwhelmed and exhausted simply thinking about it.

"I'm thinking, A," I said, turning to her.

She snorted. "Careful, sister, yous might injure yourself."

I threw a creamer at her caput. "Oh, shut up, dweeb." I leaned forward and grabbed her wrist, directing her attending from her telephone and onto me. "I feel like Mom is overextending us."

"Well, we are busier than ever, that's for sure."

"We're modeling, blogging, auditioning for Telly slots, interim in music videos...nosotros never have any downtime, like always," I said, squeezing her wrist. "We've been on the get, without a single twenty-four hours off, travel time excluded, since we were xvi. I'chiliad tired, A."

Aerie sighed, nodding. "The but reanimation we ever get is traveling from ane shoot or audition or event to another. I don't even retrieve the final time we got to only sit around in sweatpants watching Goggle box."

"We don't fifty-fifty own a Television receiver, and Mom would never permit united states of america exist caught expressionless wearing something then pedestrian as sweatpants." I let go of Aerie'due south wrist as the server brought us our food, and we were quiet as nosotros dug in. Once I'd taken a few bites, I said, "My signal is, nosotros demand a vacation."

"Mom won't let us."

"Is this our career, or Mom's?"

"Mom's, manifestly," Aerie joked. "When you lot say holiday, what exactly practise y'all have in heed?"

I shrugged. "Something extended, and remote. Something that volition allow us to get dorsum to beingness who nosotros really are--normal girls who watch The Bachelor and attend infant showers and backyard barbecues, girls who don't have to deal with all the unrealistic bullshit of modeling and international travel."

"How most Republic of the fiji islands for a calendar week?" Aerie offered.

I shook my caput, washing down my breakfast burrito with too-hot coffee. "I was thinking near something m

ore than that. Similar...maybe going home, for a month or two, and just getting back to basics...trying to be normal."

Aerie paused, I'd evidently surprised her. "Dwelling house? You mean Mom'due south condo on the upper east side?"

I shook my head. "No, Aerie, that's never been home. You know that."

She swallowed hard. "What are you suggesting, T?"

"I'thou suggesting we take an indefinite leave of absence from our career and pigsty up in Ketchikan until we're ready to confront the world over again." I waved my hand at the embankment. "That, back there? That was the last straw for me. I'one thousand sick of being photographed. I'thousand sick of being made up and having my hair done and eating like a damn bird and exercising similar I'm trying out for the fucking Olympics. I'm even more ill of sleazy photographers, and being hit on, and propositioned, and molested, and talked down to, and treated like I'm aught but an ornament. I want to consume cheesecake and cheeseburgers, and beverage myself into a daze, and peradventure even have sex with someone and actually stick effectually for coffee the adjacent morn instead of doing the walk of shame from the dude'southward bed to a photograph shoot, smelling like condoms and apathy."

Aerie got up and came around the table and merely hugged me. "Oh, honey, I know. I know. Me too. But...Ketchikan?"

I looked her straight in the eyes. "Recollect virtually information technology, A! Who the hell would expect for us in Alaska? Nobody, that's who. We shut off our phones, literally. No social media, no Insta posts, no Snapping, no Tweeting, no swiping left or correct on fucking Tinder, no Reddit AMAs, no Tumblr, none of that bullshit. We can eat what nosotros want, and non wash our hair, and become pimples and fatty asses and drink any we want and when we feel similar going back to work, we can. Mom can't run our career for the rest of our lives. We have to take accuse. I'one thousand burnt out, A. I demand a intermission." I lifted an eyebrow. "Plus, our twenty-first altogether is coming up before long."

She nodded, thinking about it. "That does sound pretty awesome, now that yous put it that style. I like the thought of just dropping out and doing any we want. Besides, I think nosotros'd wait pretty good with thick asses, actually."

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