A Thug Valentine in Atlanta: A Short Story

“I wasn’t looking for love because I wasn’t ready to settle down. I was a young, fly thug with the mentality that all females weren’t worth my time. I was a single, ladies man and I planned on keeping it like that until I met her.”

Dakota Baker Jr. aka DJ lived his life day to day stealing cars and flipping them for a bigger profit. His business life was escalating to a million-dollar market, yet his love life was nonexistent. His focus was solely on fast cars, fast money, and staying single for life until fate caused him to bump into the sexy and feisty, Italie Jacobs.

The hood’s most talked about fashion designer, Italie Jacobs, had her mind and heart set on locking love down and throwing away the key. After a failed attempt at love causes her to become bitter, she goes harder at trying to make a name for herself. The desperate attempt to not get involved with another man fails when DJ walks into her boutique in need of a custom design. She tries her hardest to steer him away, but fate intervenes, and she finds herself falling for him.

Dakota and Italie fall harder than expected, yet his spinster past lingers behind them. Does his past cause Italie to stray? Or will his Thug love lock her down?