Hello Readers,
Today we are showcasing the great snippet from the book "Waking Up His Wife". A love story that I'm sure a few of us have experience at one point in our lives. Enjoy the rough ride that Anna goes through in this great story.
Introduction
Wrestling
has always been a man's world; a world where women are either
behind the scenes organizing their lives down to the last detail or
running their men's careers. Either way, it wasn’t a life which
Anna would have chosen for herself but it was her life and she could
not walk away from it. She ended up being thrust into the bright
lights, rings and sweat drenched locker rooms by her older brother.
At
the age of fourteen, her brother found himself struggling to bring up
Anna, after her mother took to the bottle. Their mother’s drinking
problem came about after their father died. A working class man in a
working class job; he had lost his life in a car accident on his way
to a wrestling show.
Drake
barely wrestled with his father, everyone knew he only endured five
years of the industry before his father passed on. He turned to
wrestling in hope of taking his struggling family out of the city and
into a safer place. He took on this great mission at the age of just
eighteen.
Drake's father, Brent took on wrestling as a second job to keep food
in the bellies of his family. His father Brent had worked in
wrestling for almost thirty years.Drake’s father’s death resulted
in him becoming a full time wrestler and he started taking on bigger
matches in an attempt to honor his father’s memory
His father’s friends and old tag team partners became his tutors.
They showed him how to survive on the roads, how to avoid the drugs
and to understand the need for a good agent. The way to handle
promoters and what to do with the fans who took a step over the line.
Just
after Anna turned sixteen he took her with him on the weekends and
showed her what he needed her to do. She soon knew the ins and outs
of the business, and became his agent. Taking calls, making sure he
got paid and for four years they worked well together. She mended his
wrestling gear, when she got her driver's license she drove him. He
got her to drive him as much as possible, so he could rest between
busy match filled weekends.
When
she finally left school, Anna continued to help her brother until he
got a top job at one of the top wrestling companies in the world.
She found herself unable to go to college due to the high demands of
his work. The truth of this scared Drake and he felt deeply guilty
about the opportunities he took from her. He found himself worrying
more about her when he signed his big company deal leaving her
useless to him.
Drake,
being the bigger brother, always felt like he needed to save the day.
He liked to step in and helped her sign his oldest, most trusted
friend Adam Pike. Knowing his best friend, he could and would keep
an eye on her. He wanted to make sure she remained in work and safe.
He feared her becoming one of the women, used and abused by those
men. The men who stalked the ring and backstage area for an easy
wife.
Adam
Pike, found himself already in trouble when he signed with Drake's
sister. He couldn't have needed her to enter his career or his life
more. He knew the trouble he got himself into when he met her in the
backstage area of the third biggest wrestling company in the world.
When he set his eyes on her, he knew the mayhem Drake brought to his
door.
Their
love story started the day he heard her name. He clocked her pretty
round eyes and the fire which burning in their centre. Only neither
of them knew they fell for each other at their first meeting. They
now struggled to be apart. They worked so hard to make a good client
list and she traveled with the second biggest companies, making the
careers of Adam and the other men worth something.
One
night in Vegas would end up changing their lives forever.
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