The Wild One
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Dee Dee Morrison-Milner is a movie star and the wild child in the Morrison family; you name it and she’s done it, with almost no regrets. However, when she adopts an African orphan child (Natua), and a psycho begins fixating on Dee Dee’s maternal abilities and imagines himself married to the movie star diva, she finds herself running straight into her estranged husband, Drake Milner’s arms as she tries to get away from a stalker.
As she and Drake rediscover each other, Dee Dee begins feeling safe and secure, but then she comes face to face with the biggest threat of her life. And she will need love of a different kind to enable her to release her fears and move forward with God, Drake and Natua.
Vanessa Miller
Vanessa Miller is a bestselling author, with several books appearing on ESSENCE Magazine's Bestseller List. She has also been a Black Expressions Book Club alternate pick and #1 on BCNN/BCBC Bestseller List. Most of Vanessa's published novels depict characters who are lost and in need of redemption. The books have received countless favorable reviews: "Heartwarming, drama-packed and tender in just the right places" (Romantic Times book review) and "Recommended for readers of redemption stories" (Library Journal). Visit her online at vanessamiller.com; X: @Vanessamiller01; Instagram: @authorvanessamiller; Facebook: @Vanessamiller01.
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The Wild One - Vanessa Miller
The Wild One
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Vanessa Miller
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Have A Little Faith
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Love Isn’t Enough
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Chapter One
Leaving me isn’t going to be as easy as you think. I’m not like the others.
Dee Dee Morrison-Wilcox-Johnson-Sooner-Milner rolled her eyes as she read the email. She didn’t recognize the email address of the sender, but she knew it was Drake Milner, her soon-to-be ex-husband. Drake was husband number four. When they’d first gotten married, Dee Dee thought that Drake was the love of her life and all those other marriages had been foolish interruptions, on her way to happy land. But Drake was too much like Dee Dee’s father, the great, Joel Morrison. She would have divorced him already if it wasn’t for sweet little Natua.
Before Natua had turned two, she’d lost both her parents. Then Dee Dee’s sister Elaine, who had been a missionary in Uganda, began helping the girl's grandmother take care of her. Elaine had fallen in love with the little girl, and Natua loved her also. So, Elaine had wanted to adopt her, but then Elaine found out that she had ovarian cancer. Now Dee Dee’s little sister was in a fight to save her own life. But before she embarked on that journey, she’d asked Dee Dee to adopt Natua.
Drake had agreed to help her with the child, and so far their arrangement was working out just fine. Drake kept Natua three days a week—Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday—the days that Dee Dee was needed on the set of the sitcom she was currently in.
When Elaine had first asked her to take on this responsibility, Dee Dee had worried that raising a child would hurt her career. But Hollywood was full of actresses who adopted underprivileged children from other countries. Her agent and the producers on her sitcom had congratulated her. They’d even offered to do a press release about the adoption. But Dee Dee had said no to the press release, because she didn’t want any reporters getting wind of Elaine’s illness and then tracking her down in Mexico where she was currently seeking treatment.
Dee Dee and Drake had agreed that he should stay at the house on the days he was responsible for Natua, because of all the changes Natua had to endure in her young life. That didn’t bother Dee Dee, because she left the house at five in the morning on the days she was needed on set and didn’t return home until nightfall. But these love notes Drake kept sending her were really beginning to bug her.
She turned off her computer and walked into Natua’s room. You ready, kiddo?
Will Daddy be here this morning to tie my shoes?
Natua asked, as she slipped on her pink tennis shoes.
No honey, remember, Drake likes to stay at his apartment on Thursdays.
Oh yeah.
Natua looked as if she’d just remembered something. And on Saturday, Sunday and Monday too. Daddy likes being alone a lot.
It bugged Dee Dee that after three months, Natua thought of Drake as Daddy, but still couldn’t bring herself to call Dee Dee, Mom. But Dee Dee also realized that Natua had thought of Elaine as her new mommy and had expected to live with her, until Dee Dee showed up. Elaine had not been married, so Natua hadn’t become accustomed to thinking of another man as Dad, so it was easier for her to attach herself to Drake. Dee Dee’s head knew this, but her heart was having a hard time accepting it. Especially since she had begun thinking of Natua as her very own child and wouldn’t dream of giving her up, not even to Elaine, once she pulled through her illness.
Dee Dee smiled at the innocent little girl and simply said, Let me tie your shoes so we can get going.
Dee Dee didn’t need to be on the set today, but she had a meeting with her agent about a movie role she was interested in. The role she would be playing was very different from the Pollyanna, good-girl roles she had been typecast into. At first, Dee Dee hadn’t minded doing family-oriented movies. Her father had made his money by starring in family friendly movies. But the Hollywood of today was very different from the days when Joel Morrison had become a star.
Dee Dee was a c-list star, reduced to playing secondary characters