Natalie Ann [Ann - Fierce-Bryce (Fierce Family Series Book 2)

Authors Note

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

The Road Series-See where it all started!!

Lucas and Brookes Story- Road to Recovery

Jack and Coris Story Road to Redemption

Mac and Beths Story- Road to Reality

Ryan and Kaitlins Story- Road to Reason

The All Series

William and Isabels Story All for Love

Ben and Presleys Story All or Nothing

Phil and Sophias Story All of Me

Alec and Brynns Story All the Way

Sean and Carlys Story All I Want

Drew and Jordyns Story All My Love

Finn and Olivias Story All About You

Landon Barber and Kristen Reid- All Of Us

The Lake Placid Series

Nick Buchanan and Mallory Denning Second Chance

Max Hamilton and Quinn Baker Give Me A Chance

Caleb Ryder and Celeste McGuire Our Chance

Cole McGuire and Rene Buchanan Take A Chance

Zach Monroe and Amber Deacon- Deserve A Chance

Trevor Miles and Riley Hamilton Last Chance

Matt Winters and Dena Hall- Another Chance

The Fierce Five Series

Gavin Fierce and Jolene OMalley- How Gavin Stole Christmas

Brody Fierce and Aimee Reed - Brody

Aiden Fierce and Nic Moretti- Aiden

Mason Fierce and Jessica Corning- Mason

Cade Fierce and Alex Marshall - Cade

Ella Fierce and Travis McKinley- Ella

Fierce Family

Sam Fierce and Dani Rhodes- Sam

Bryce Fierce and Payton Davies - Bryce

Love Collection

Vin Steele and Piper Fielding Secret Love

Jared Hawk and Shelby McDonald True Love

Erik McMann and Sheldon Case Finding Love

Connor Landers and Melissa Mahoney- Beach Love

Ian Price and Cam Mason- Intense Love

Liam Sullivan and Ali Rogers - Autumn Love

Owen Taylor and Jill Duncan - Holiday Love

Chase Martin and Noelle Bennett - Christmas Love

Zeke Collins and Kendall Hendricks - Winter Love

Troy Walker and Meena Dawson Chasing Love

Jace Stratton and Lauren Towne - First Love

Gabe Richards and Leah Morrison - Forever Love

Blake Wilson and Gemma Anderson Simply Love

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Bryce Fierce seems to have everything a woman wants. Brainshes a certified genius after allgood looks, a successful career, and a family name many wanted to lay claim to. But what he really wants is someone who is interested in him and not what he can offer. So he came up with a certain type of woman and that is what hes going after. Too bad for someone who was always right, he found out how wrong he really was.

Payton Davies was the girl many envied from a distance. Blonde hair, blue eyes, a killer body. Men wanted her on their arm for show. Even her parents told her to use what God gave her to get ahead in life because her intelligenceor lack of itwasnt benefiting her. What she wanted though was someone to be there for her. To appreciate her for who she was inside, not what she looked like, or judge her on any inadequacy she possessed.

Prologue

Hey there. Bryce Fierce turned his head when he felt a finger trail down his arm. Not just a finger, but a fingernail, sharp and teasing. No pain, but with enough force for him to know who it belonged to. Then again, the scent of her minty gum mixed in with whatever fruity body spray shed spritzed on let him know too.

Hey, Marcella.

I was wondering, she said, leaning into him. She had the lean perfected. She had everything perfected to get the attention she wanted. If you were going to be working on your lab later tonight?

I planned on it after dinner.

She snapped her gum and giggled, her blonde hair floating around her shoulders. I could work on it with you? Professor Lang said that Id have a better understanding of the class if I did my labs with classmates.

Shed never have an understanding of it, in his opinion. And you want to do it with me over your friends? he asked.

Her friends that she walked around campus with, her posse. Always laughing, flirting, bouncing around with her arm on one guy or another. He wasnt sure if she dated anyone, or at least exclusively, but she was sure seen with enough guys.

My friends arent working on it tonight, she said, her long nails playing a tap on his bicep now.

He might be a nerd in some peoples eyes, but he was still a Fierce and looked like one. Tall, dark, and built. If he had his face in books more than women or sports, that was his prerogative, but his looks still had women coming on to him, saving him from ever having to make the first move.

He liked it that way too.

Ill be around working on it if you find your way into the lab, but Im not waiting for you, he said. She frowned and he didnt care. He wasnt stupid; he wasnt going to be used.

What time are you going to start? she asked, pushing her bottom lip out. Im meeting friends for dinner at six.

Ill be in the lab around six thirty, he said, adding another thirty minutes to when hed planned to show up. No reason to be a complete jerk.

Ill see you then, she said, turning, her hair hitting his neck as she strutted back over to her little crew at the other end of the room.

What was that? his buddy Kyle asked him, coming over to whisper. Marcella was totally into you.

Bryce snorted. Shes into someone doing her work for her.

And? Kyle asked. Who cares if you get to spend some time with her.

Kyle wouldnt understand. He was smart like Bryce, but he looked like the brain that he was. Hed never dated and was just dying to get his first girlfriend. Maybe if hed focus on girls that he had more in common with instead of those that wanted to use him, hed find some success.

Bryce had been there and done that. Hed dated in high school. Hed dated in college. But school always came first and he was sick of girls that only wanted to spend time with him so hed help them out. Especially if they were dishonest about it.

I dont need to waste my time with her when Ive got work to do. Shes going to come over and ask me a million questions or just copy what Im doing anyway. He wasnt an idiot. Hed been around the block enough. This was an old hat to him.

Yeah, but everyone knows she puts out when she gets help. Like a payment of sorts.

Bryce stared at Kyle to see if he was joking, which of course he wasnt because everyone knew the games Marcella played. I dont need that kind of payment.

Says no guy ever, Kyle said, his eyes drifting over to Marcella and her friends. Bryce looked across the room to see Marcella wave at him. He didnt wave back, but he did nod his head. Dude, guys like us need chicks like that to bump us up.

This guy doesnt, Bryce said. I think more of myself than that.

He walked away from Kyle and took a seat before class started, knowing Marcella and her friends were talking about him and giggling.

He wasnt going to be used by anyone. If some woman didnt want him for who he was, then he had no time for her. No energy. And no desire.

Lose Yourself

Thirteen years later

Bryce let himself into his parents front door. Hed seen both of his parents cars in the garage that theyd left open for him to enter. Glancing at his watch, he realized he was late as always. He was sure his mother would have something to say about that.