Alice And The Billionaire's Wonderland (Once Upon A Billionaire Book 3) by Catelyn Meadows

Author:Catelyn Meadows [Meadows, Catelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Once Upon A Billionaire Series, Fairy Tale Romance, Alice's Story Retold, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Clean & Wholesome, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty
Publisher: Catelyn Meadows
Published: 2020-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Adelie mulled through the ceremony for the entire drive from downtown Westville to its outskirts where Maddox’s house was. This was only temporary, she told herself. It was only to protect her. He’d promised no physical expectations on his part. Still, the reminders didn’t help soothe the sting of rejection. He hadn’t kissed her.

She’d thought their connection was genuine. His attentiveness and comforting words during the photo shoot. The electric tension that had sizzled between them on the carousel. But he hadn’t kept the promise he’d made, to tell her when the pictures were ready, and now this.

Why would he put his entire life on hold for her if he didn’t have even a small bit of attraction toward her?

Guilt. The only plausible answer she could come up with was guilt. He was a nice guy who’d put her in danger inadvertently, and he wanted to assuage his own feelings. Either that or this was another ploy to garner publicity for his park, but Adelie pushed that suspicion aside. He couldn’t be that heartless.

Though he sat beside her on the back seat of the limo, she couldn’t bring herself to look at him or risk welcoming any kind of conversation right now. What would she say, thanks for marrying me?

The drive didn’t take long and yet took eons all at the same time. Her own sense of regret began forming like a newly growing seed inside her, but she did her best to cast it aside.

Kirk didn’t pull into the front of Maddox’s estate, as she had the one and only time she’d been here, but instead deviated around the back, to where a series of large garage doors awaited. Six garages? What did any one person need with that many garages?

The farthest one opened, and as Kirk pulled in, Adelie’s question was answered.

Cars in every make and model spread out around the garage space. Lamborghini, Ferrari, the Lexus she’d seen Maddox drive.

“Don’t mind my collection,” Maddox said, jerking her attention. It was the first words he’d spoken since they’d moved Adelie’s suitcases to the limousine and settled into the spacious backseat with her.

He hasn’t broken any promises, she reminded herself, shaking away the sting of rejection from their ceremony. He said he would marry you, and he did. That’s that.

“They’re really impressive,” she said. “You seriously own all of these?”

“I do. Just little rewards I’ve granted to myself. This one was from when my mom first approved my idea. This one was after the park opened.” He rested a hand on the hood of a fancy Mustang.

“You’re like Tony Stark,” she said.

He shrugged. “Just without the insane brains.”

“You’re not insane?”

His lips quirked upward. He’d tugged his tie loose and undone the buttons on his collar, exposing the skin at his throat. “I never said that. Just that Tony Stark’s level of intelligence far outweighs mine.”

“Then you’re not an industrial engineer.”

“I’ll tell you what I am.”

She froze, either from the tone or the insinuation buried within it. “What?”

“Hungry.”

Adelie laughed, crackling through her own tension, and took his outstretched hand.

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