With a Twist (PDF)

With a Twist is a bar owned by sexy, smart Ava Denotti. She's recently divorced and just turned forty. She's put on thirty very unwanted pounds after her husband left her for a twenty-something blonde bimbo, leaving Ava hurt, alone and more than a little angry.
Shane Sullivan can't believe his luck when he sees Ava sitting at the bar. He's only met her once two years before at the annual Christmas party hosted by Ava and her then husband, Dick. Shane has never been able to forget the beautiful woman with the warm smile, engaging personality, and that incredibly sexy, curvaceous body. His fiancée at the time, Brittany, worked with Ava's husband at the same advertising company. For a long time Shane suspected that Brittany and Dick were having an affair and he turned out to be right.
As Shane overhears Ava mention her fortieth birthday to her bartender, all he wants to do is touch and kiss her, then ravish her soft, rounded flesh until they fall sated from the pleasure of their sweat covered bodies. The young bartender approaches him, and as luck would have it, she asks Shane to join Ava for a drink and a little flirtation as a birthday gift for her boss.
Ava watches in awe as the tattooed young man with a tiny earring approaches her. She knows she's seen him before, but where? When Shane refreshes her memory, Ava realizes Shane is the ex-fiancé of the woman who ran away with her husband!
In the meantime, Ava's brother, A.J., co-owner of their bar berates her for even thinking of dating a much younger man, telling her that Shane will make a fool of her once he gets what he wants. Ava decides that she'll take the chance and ignores her brother's jibes.
She embarks on a torrid affair with Shane, who is an insatiable lover. Ava feels sexy and wanted and young again. Ava is amazed that Shane doesn’t care about her weight or her age. She finds herself completely uninhibited when she makes love with Shane. She is happy again and Shane is the reason. Even her brother's warnings about Shane cannot prevent her from falling in love with him. It all seems too good to be true.
Turns out, it is.
Elena, the young bartender at With a Twist, is happy for Ava. She tells her boss how she asked Shane to approach Ava and buy her a drink on the night of her fortieth birthday. Shane, in essence, was Elena's birthday gift to her. Ava is devastated and a little more than enraged. Shane was coerced into being with her? Was having sex part of the deal too?
At that moment, Shane enters the bar with a huge bouquet of flowers and a big smile. Ava turns to him in rage and throws the flowers back in his face, much to Shane's confusion. She doesn’t believe that he cares for her. Shane grows angry and turns the table on Ava, informing her that perhaps Ava was played him for a fool, using a younger man to forget the hurt inflicted by her ex. They part ways, neither of them willing to talk it over.
Ava is miserable. She has fallen for Shane and doesn’t know what to do. His phone messages reveal his love for her. He wants her to meet him at the bar so they could talk. Ava wants to believe him, but can they work things out? Does she want to set herself up to be hurt again? Does Shane make her happy? Finally she comes to a decision.
Shane arrives at the bar, to find no sign of Ava. As time passes, he waits, crestfallen, and realizes how much he loves her, and will fight for her. Just when he is about to give up and leave, she enters the bar. At that moment he realized how much he loves her and how she's changed his life.
Ava confesses her love for him, and she's willing to take a chance on a relationship if he is willing to do the same.