Alpha Bait: BWWM Billionaire Romance Novel by Jamila Jasper

Author:Jamila Jasper [Jasper, Jamila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jamila Jasper Romance
Published: 2018-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

The Talk

INDIE

We need to talk.

Richard had never been so serious with me. Even after Donnie made his lethal mistake, we struggled to keep what was growing between us as light as we could. No family talk had become a welcome rule.

We need to talk. Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of men and women everywhere like that simple, direct statement. You can unravel 10,000 times after you've heard it and even if nothing comes of it, the pangs of worry may remain with you for ages.

I wanted to ask Rich what he wished to speak about, but if he said we needed to talk in person about the mysterious subject, asking would do no good. Rich shared my stubborn streak and he felt the gentleman's pressing need to address problems head-on.

He never avoided responsibility. That was more than I could say for my brother who had become a prominent thorn in my side since Donnie had killed that Carter girl.

I did my job. I did what I could to protect my family and to ensure we spared no expense in fighting Donnie's case.

Despite what I had done to help Jamal and Donnie, I could never come around to what they had done. I did my duty, nothing more.

They had gone too far and pushed the feud from something harmless into something bloody. I feared it would only get bloodier. Our family had intensified the feud to this level only twice before. Both times, blood had been shed. My mother had seen the potential for the disagreement to escalate and she attempted to quell problems early.

Only now, she seemed to have come down on the wrong side of things despite all her talk. Perhaps I shouldn't have trusted in her to maintain the peace. Perhaps at the end of it all, when a Holloway looks at a Carmichael all that they're going to see is an enemy.

If only I could feel that way about Richard.

Our family's feud had no impact on my feelings for him -- whatever those feelings were. Love? Infatuation? A mix of the two? I refused to accept this could be pure lust. Lust doesn't lead to you risking everything just to be with someone. It has to be more than that.

My feelings were small at first, planted like a sapling within the fertile soil of my heart. Slowly, the roots pushed through driving a great discomfort throughout me as I fell for him. When I was finally ready to admit what I felt about Richard Carmichael, my love for him had blossomed into a delicate flower.

I knew he was on the wrong side. I knew that I would be punished harshly for involving myself with him, no matter how hard I tried to keep it a secret. But I couldn't deny that light inside of myself, those unfurling petals of deep affection that now overwhelmed me.

Rich and I met at a different hotel every time. We changed the addresses, texted each other in a simple code and spoke to each other infrequently.

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