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    Behind Every Good Woman
    Behind Every Good Woman
    Behind Every Good Woman
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    Behind Every Good Woman

    By E. N. Joy

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    Behind Every Good Woman puts you in the passenger seat of the bumpy ride through Teal and Tyrone's loving yet sometimes volatile relationship. One minute every woman envies Teal and only dreams of having an attentive man like Tyrone to cater to her every need. The next minute no woman in her right mind would put up with him for even a day, let alone the seven years Teal has. Teal and Tyrone; T&T definitely stand for dynamite when it comes to the explosive ups, downs, and all-arounds of their love affair. Even with Tyrone's faults and foul acts, there is just something about him that makes him easy for Teal to love and even easier to desire. Will Teal sacrificing her true desires finally reach a breaking point that forces her to break things off with Tyrone...for good this time?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherE. N. Joy
    Release dateJun 26, 2014
    ISBN9781311318947
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    E. N. Joy

    BLESSEDselling Author E. N. Joy is the author behind the “New Day Divas,” “Still Divas,” “Always Divas” and “Forever Divas" series, all which have been coined “Soap Operas in Print.” She is an Essence Magazine Bestselling Author who wrote secular books under the names Joylynn M. Jossel and JOY. Her title, If I Ruled the World, earned her a book blurb from Grammy Award Winning Artist, Erykah Badu. An All Night Man, an anthology she penned with New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Jackson, earned the Borders bestselling African American romance award. Her Urban Fiction title, Dollar Bill (Triple Crown Publications), appeared in Newsweek and has been translated to Japanese.After thirteen years of being a paralegal in the insurance industry, E. N. Joy divorced her career and married her mistress and her passion; writing. In 2000, she formed her own publishing company where she published her books until landing a book deal with St. Martin's Press. This award winning author has been sharing her literary expertise on conference panels in her home town of Columbus, Ohio as well as cities across the country. She also conducts publishing/writing workshops for aspiring writers.Her children’s book titled The Secret Olivia Told Me, written under the name N. Joy, received a Coretta Scott King Honor from the American Library Association. The book was also acquired by Scholastic Books and has sold almost 100,000 copies. Elementary and middle school children have fallen in love with reading and creative writing as a result of the readings and workshops E. N. Joy instructs in schools nationwide.In addition, she is the artistic developer for a young girl group named DJHK Gurls. She pens original songs, drama skits and monologues for the group that deal with messages that affect today’s youth, such as bullying.After being the first content development editor for Triple Crown Publications and ten years as the acquisitions editor for Carl Weber's Urban Christian imprint, E. N. Joy now does freelance editing, ghostwriting, write-behinds and literary consulting. Her clients have included New York Times Bestselling authors, entertainers, aspiring authors, as well as first-time authors. Some notable literary consulting clients include actor Christian Keyes, singer Olivia Longott and Reality Television star Shereé M. Whitfield.You can visit BLESSEDselling Author E. N. Joy at www.enjoywrites.com or email her at enjoywrites@aol.com. If you want to experience a blast from her past, you can visit www.joylynnjossel.com.

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      Behind Every Good Woman - E. N. Joy

      Behind Every Good Woman

      By E. N. Joy

      OTHER BOOKS BY E.N. JOY:

      Me, Myself and Him

      She Who Finds a Husband

      Been There, Prayed That

      Love, Honor or Stray

      Trying to Stay Saved

      I Can Do Better All By Myself

      And You Call Yourself a Christian

      The Perfect Christian

      The Sunday Only Christian

      Ordained by the Streets

      A Woman’s Revenge (Anthology: Best Served Cold)

      I Ain’t Me No More

      More Than I Can Bear

      You Get What You Pray For

      When all is Said and Prayed

      One Sunday at a Time

      Flower in My Hair

      Let’s Do Summer

      The Miserable Wives Club

      Even Sinners Have Souls (Edited by E.N. Joy)

      Even Sinners Have Souls Too (Edited by E.N. Joy)

      Even Sinners Still Have Souls (Edited by E.N. Joy)

      The Secret Olivia Told Me (N. Joy)

      Operation Get Rid of Mom’s New Boyfriend (N. Joy)

      Sabella and the Castle Belonging to the Troll (N. Joy)

      Published by End of the Rainbow projects

      P.O. Box 128

      Reynoldsburg, OH 43068

      Copyright © 2014 by End of the Rainbow Projects

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior consent of the publisher, except for brief quotes used in reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. Any references or similarities to actual events, real people, living or dead, or to real locales are intended to give the story a sense of reality. Any similarity in other names, characters, places and incidents is entirely coincidental.

      Chapter 1

      The Ex Factor

      As painful as this thing has been…can't be with no one else. The words to the song playing on the CD player on her built-in, custom-made oak entertainment center frolicked through Teal's head. Whenever she and Tyrone were on the off-again segment of their seven-year on-again, off-again relationship, she always found a song to become the anthem to express exactly what she was going through. In this case, it was Ex Factor by Lauryn Hill.

      As she thought about Tyrone, her first real love, Teal softly ran her natural square shaped, medium-length nails up and down the 5x8-foot soft rug made of llama fur. Tyrone had purchased the handmade rug two years earlier while on their eight-day, seven-night vacation; a vacation that included a cruise that made a pit stop in the beautiful Bahamas.

      Nassau was the Caribbean island where they were supposed to have gotten married two years ago. But that time, like the three times before that, Tyrone had come up with an excuse as to why getting married at that particular time and place wasn't right. It wasn't until two days before their departure, while Teal was packing her sexy lingerie that she’d planned to consummate their marriage in, that Tyrone had decided to drop the news to her about not wanting to get married on their trip after all.

      Teal had just placed the last of her lingerie items in her carry-on when she’d proceeded to pack her lounging wear. Baby, this is what I'm going to wear to dinner later on in the evening the day we get married, Teal had said, holding up the sheer, leopard print, oversized scarf that draped down to her ankles when she wrapped it around her five-foot, six-inch, size fourteen frame. She had been a size sixteen only two months prior to her sitting there packing her luggage for the much anticipated get-away. But she had been dieting and exercising so that she would look good on her wedding day. Down ten pounds and a dress size, Teal was pleased with her efforts.

      Uhh, well, uhh, yeah, it looks all right, Tyrone had stammered as he laid in the bed watching ESPN while Teal poked her head and arm out of the walk-in closet to show him the scarf-like body wrap.

      I'm going to wear a tube top under it and that one black mini-skirt I got from Macy's. My Nine West 'Isha' ankle strap sandals are what's really going to set it off. Teal retrieved the pair of shoes she had just mentioned to Tyrone and held them up for him to look at.

      Unlike most men, Tyrone had taken, and still took, a genuine interest in his woman, how she dressed, as well as her hairstyles. He was big on being an amazing looking couple and representing one another well. So he gladly provided input in Teal’s appearance when it was requested.

      Uhh, well, uhh, yeah, they look all right. Tyrone never took his eyes off of the television.

      Just all right? Teal whined as she dropped the shoes and crooned her way over to her man. That's two all rights in a row and I want to look better than just all right for my husband-to-be on our wedding day and night. I want to be more than all right when you make an honest woman out of me under God’s eyes. Teal flopped down on the bed, positioning herself right in front of Tyrone. She sat up on her elbow and rested the side of her face in the palm of her hand.

      Tyrone pretended to have been too involved in the television to return the stare that Teal was giving him. But Teal knew better than to think he was more interested in the TV show than in talking to her about her wardrobe for their trip. Besides, a commercial had been on and Tyrone always flicked the channel whenever a commercial took residence on the screen. He wasn't flicking, which meant he was faking.

      Tyrone, look at me, Teal had said as she gently took him by the chin and turned his face directly toward her. He’d had no choice but to look at her, but somehow he’d managed to look over her head instead of into her eyes. That was something he’d always done right before he was about to let Teal down. It had not gone unnoticed by Teal. He was like a book she’d read over and over and knew exactly what was going to happen next.

      Teal shook her head and sighed. We're not getting married this time either, are we, Tyrone? She didn’t even have to turn the page to get her answer.

      The truth had been released from captivity, and it had escaped, not from Tyrone’s mouth, but Teal’s instead. Nope; Tyrone hadn’t had to say a word. His actions

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