BILLION DOLLAR STRANGER: A BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE by Stephanie Brother

Author:Stephanie Brother [Brother, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

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AARON

The day I spend with Nicole in London is one of the best I've had in a long time.

We travel on the subway – or “Tube” as the Brits refer to it – missing the rush hour, thank goodness. The underground passageways are like mazes, and I'm glad that I have a native to guide me. Getting off at Holborn station, we walk to the first museum as friends, close but not touching. Nicole tells me about school trips she took to see the ancient treasures within and tells me that I'm going to love it, having seen my antiquities at my apartment.

The outside of the building is awe-inspiring, complete with columns and statues that tower above the crowds of tourists. Inside, the museum houses amazing examples of treasures from all major ancient civilizations, taking my breath away. We spend a lot of time in the Egyptian room, but I find the Parthenon room the most fascinating, with its frieze that runs the entire circumference, and statues that are so expertly carved that the marble looks as soft as flesh and cloth.

At my request, we take a black cab to the Tate Modern, a modern art gallery, and spend an hour wandering the rooms filled with strange and bizarre creations. I know how I sound when I say that I see no value in most of it. Modern art is a funny thing; sometimes thought-provokingly original, but much of it I can't profess to understand.

Nicole has a more moderate take on it, enjoying the silliest of the exhibits and standing for a long time in front of works by Picasso and Dali. Now those, I can appreciate.

We take an elevator to the top of the building and ask in the restaurant for a table for two near the windows that overlook the River Thames and St. Paul's Cathedral. The food will most likely be average, but the view is really something, so I don't object to staying.

Nicole is an excellent tour guide, contagiously enthusiastic, and with a cheeky sense of humor. She made no effort to conceal her ogling of the nude statues in the museum and giggled at the lack of “men's bits”. I shouldn't have been amused, but I couldn't help myself.

In the restaurant, though, she's subdued.

It has been a strange day of ups and downs. I just want to be able to leave with everything okay between us, but even as I think of returning home without her, my stomach knots. I watch as she tucks her glossy dark hair behind her ear as we wait for our main courses. She's such a beautiful girl, young and fresh but with a maturity that gives her a fascinating edge, and enough challenge in her to keep me on my toes. I can't help but think about the things we have done together. The sight of her naked body is still fresh in my mind, too, but that isn't what this is about.

She interrupts my train of thought with a question about my family that catches me off guard.

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