Page 3 of The Billionaire's Secret
“Isn’t it always her?If she could, she’d give me hell even when she’s asleep.”
“You slept with her?Did you fall for her?”
“Hell no to all of that.You misunderstood.I don’t have time for fucking or falling.Not that you’d know anything about that.No matter what you do women fall all over themselves to get to you.”
“They do fall.”Onto my bed.At my feet, their mouths eager for my dick.Myindiscretionsas Grandmother called it.They want my body?Have at it.They want my money?Sure, I’ll give them some.
But I have one rule.A line I never cross.I don’t have sex with a married woman.My father did and I paid for his sins.Hell, I’m still paying.
The car slows, then stops at a traffic light.
Oliver looks past me through my window and sucks in a sharp breath.
I follow the direction of his gaze.
A woman stands beneath the green-striped awning of a small jewelry store.Her full lips curve slightly as if she’s amused by the way the driving rain pelts the sidewalk at her feet.
A sudden gust of wind lifts the strands of her dark hair and blows them across her face.The white blouse she’s wearing is sleeveless and she shivers despite the warm day.
I feel the urge to dash across the street and offer her my jacket, tuck her close and protect her from the weather.
She shifts and reaches into the pocket of jeans snuggly fitted over her shapely body.Then she frowns and glances my way though she can’t see me through the tinted windows.
Her eyes are clear blue like the waters of the Andaman Sea.Tempting.Alluring.My siren.
My heart aches from a sudden jolt of emotion.As if it was searching for someone and now here she is.I’ve never wanted a woman as badly as I want her.
She draws her lower lip between her teeth, then turns and dives into the rain, keeping her head down as she runs.Her hips sway in a graceful, sexy rhythm.She’s leaving?
I can’t lose sight of her.
I unbuckle my seatbelt and step from the car.
Chapter Two
Salem
“Didyougetthejob?”Jacklyn asks the second I walk into the two-bedroom apartment we share with her brother Lear and his almost three-year-old son, Princeton.
After my family was forced to leave Laketon Heights three months ago, Lear and Jacklyn told me if I wanted to stay, I was welcome to move in with them.
I grab a towel from the laundry basket to dry my rain-soaked hair.I was too excited about the interview and hadn’t paid attention to the weather report.
“Well?”Jacklyn demands.
I grin.“I did.”
They both cheer, as excited as I am for what this news represents.A way out of the ruin.
I’d made the mistake of dating and falling for Douglas Browning, Jr., heir to DB Jewelry.Thief of the precious designs I created from memories with my late grandmother.He’s the man who had destroyed my new business and nearly my family in the process.
I promised myself I’d pay him and his snobby family back for everything they did.It was bad enough that they ruined me, but they also caused my family to suffer.Even now, they still threaten to cause trouble for my parents and older brother.I can’t forgive that part.
Landing the job working for the Montclair billionaires is the first step in my plan to pay them back and reclaim what was lost.
Not only does the job pay insanely well, but I’ll gain access to the old money elites and their power which I need to right the wrongs.There’s one woman among them who knows the truth.Heloise Perry.I need to get to her and convince her to speak up for me.
“What department?”Jacklyn asks.
