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Maverick
Invisible – Unseen
“He was the high school crush who never knew I existed. I am still the girl hiding against the wall.” Kenzy
Life for Kenzy Davis is far from easy right now. After ending a long-term relationship, she is back in her hometown, starting over.
Maverick “Tapper” Collins works hard and plays even harder. An invisible illness shakes his world at its core as his father fights for his life. Everything he ever took for granted stares him in the face, including the shy girl from his past.
Watching someone you love battle an illness is never easy. When the ICU nurse caring for his dad is the one girl from his past he saw around but overlooked, does Maverick find comfort in her embrace? Does Kenzy find a new calm in the chaos of her life? Or do their feelings remain invisible yet again?
Chelsea Camaron
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Chelsea Camaron is a small town Carolina girl with a big imagination. She’s a wife and mom, chasing her dreams. She writes contemporary romance, erotic suspense, and psychological thrillers. She loves to write about blue-collar men who have real problems with a fictional twist. From mechanics to bikers to oil riggers to smokejumpers, bar owners, and beyond she loves a strong hero who works hard and plays harder.
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Maverick - Chelsea Camaron
Maverick
ROUGHNECK SERIES ONE
CHELSEA CAMARON
Carolina Dreams PublishingContents
Maverick
Content Warning
Production Acknowledgements
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Maverick
MaKenzy
1. MaKenzy
2. Maverick
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Epilogue
The End
Diabetes Information
About the Author
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Heath
Prologue
Heath
Maverick
ROUGHNECK SERIES BOOK 1
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USA Today and Wall Street Journal
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Chelsea Camaron
Copyright © Chelsea Camaron 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or electronic or mechanical methods, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of Chelsea Camaron, except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.
This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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First edition published May 2014
Carolina Dreams Publishing
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Hubert, NC 28539
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Content Warning
This book contains mature content not suitable for those under the age of 18. Involves strong language and sexual situations. All parties portrayed in sexual situations are adults over the age of 18.
Production Acknowledgements
1 st Edition Published: May 2014 as part of the Moments in Time Anthology
Published Independently by Chelsea Camaron 2015
Editing by: Asli Fratarcangeli, Pam Berehulke, and C&D Editing
Formatting by: IndieVention Designs
Original Cover Design by: IndieVention Designs Cover picture: Shutterstock
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Maverick
Heath
Lance
Wendol
Reese
Maverick
INVISIBLE – UNSEEN
HE WAS THE HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH WHO NEVER KNEW I EXISTED. I’M STILL THE SHY GIRL HIDING AGAINST THE WALL.
KENZY
Life for Kenzy Davis is far from easy right now. After ending a long-term relationship, she is back in Odessa, Texas, starting over.
Maverick Tapper
Collins works hard and plays even harder.
His world is shaken at its very core. Everything he ever took for granted stares him in the face, including the shy girl from his past.
The ICU nurse caring for his dad is a woman from his past he never noticed, but now he can’t seem to forget. Does Maverick find comfort in her embrace? Is he the calm to Kenzy’s chaos in life?
One thing is certain, she’s not invisible anymore!
Dedication
Daba
A man who lived his life as a true example of what a good man is.
This book is dedicated to the memory of my father-in-law. My daughter affectionately called him Daba
. This story is very personal to me in going back to what our family faced as we watched helplessly while an invisible disease slowly and painfully took him from us. He lost his first leg in 2003 and his second in 2007. We laid him to rest in 2008 after a long battle with Type 2 diabetes.
This silent killer destroyed a twenty-year Air Force veteran. He was not morbidly obese. He was an active man who loved hunting, fishing, and more than that, he loved his family. I was blessed to have him in my life for the time I did. I continue to be blessed in the example he was for his son. My husband is the man he is today because he had an amazing dad to guide him and teach him.
Thank you, Daba, for the gift you have given me in your son. More than that, thank you for the memories we made in the years I had as your daughter-in-law. You are in our hearts, minds, and with us everywhere we go.
Loving and missing you with every breath we take.
MaKenzy
Welcome to my mess …
Welcome to my new beginning …
Welcome to my redemption love story.
CHAPTER 1
MaKenzy
Come on, Macky.
I cringe at his pet name. Honestly, I can’t stand his voice, either. It’s funny how quickly love can turn to disgust. You will not become the crazy cat lady, or bad lady, or whatever! You will pick up the pieces and make life work! I mentally tell myself that being alone is better than being disrespected.
Ignoring the man in front of me, I tape the last box shut then lift it to make my way out of the front door.
The door that taunts me.
This door that once was so important to me now is nothing more than a piece of art that should be thrown out with the trash.
The custom door with our initials cut into stained glass that we spent hours, days actually mulling over is a beautiful reminder of what might have been, what could have been, and what I believed would one day be. It was the piece to symbolize our beginning, our becoming one. The house doesn’t mean anything anymore. The promises made, the life that was supposed to be created here—it was all built on lies. The door is simply another thing to walk away from like this life I was building.
Today, I leave it all behind. The dreams of what could have been are gone and the realities of what will never be are ahead of me.
You don’t have to do this, Macky.
The whine in his tone only grates on my nerves more. I’m in counseling now. My therapist says there’s hope for me to live a normal life.
Normal. What is normal, really? Is anyone actually normal? What constitutes a normal life? I would ask him to define this further for me, but why waste my breath, my voice, or anymore of my time? He’s had enough of all of me, he doesn’t get anymore.
Five years.
Five years, I have lived in a bubble of ignorance with this man.
My college sweetheart, Robert. Oh, the pedestal I had him on. Five years together, loving, trusting, and building a life, a future for us. Five years—it just plays over and over in my mind. I spent all of this time living in the clouds of having a happily-ever-after with him, all while he was busy spreading his seed far and wide around the Houston area.
Apparently, he didn’t get the memo that we were in a monogamous relationship.
When not one but two of my coworkers popped up pregnant within six weeks of each other—both of them by my boyfriend—I had to face some facts.
The first: there wasn’t something in the water. Nope, there was something going in them, but it wasn’t the water, it was my boyfriend. I tried to joke my way around the realities. In the end, it was simply him not keeping his dick in his