Beauty and the Billionaire: A Dirty Fairy Tale Romance by Kira Blakely

Author:Kira Blakely [Blakely, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-02T18:30:00+00:00

LAURA

God, he was so hot. But it wasn’t just his hotness that drew her to him. It was something else. Laura had had too many relationships back home that had ended with a guy trying to force her into more than she was ready for. Suddenly, she was having fantasies of having a relationship with Ashton.

Oh, not marriage! God no. She still didn’t want, that but she did want to see him again. That last guy she had dated had been such a jerk and the casual dates/hookups had not been meaningful to her. But the weird breakup and his words had somehow dropped her self-esteem a few inches anyway.

Maybe because she had had no idea of how to answer a guy who thought he was breaking off a real relationship, one she had had no idea that she was even in with him.

Was there something wrong with me, she wondered as she got into her slightly battered and older car and cranked the engine. How could she not have seen that her…what was he exactly? Ex-boyfriend? She had not thought of him that way, but it had been clear he had thought of himself that way. It didn’t matter really, she decided as she pulled out of the parking garage and headed down the bustling city streets. She had to have been blind not to see that he felt that way.

Or maybe he was blind not to see she didn’t.

Sighing with impatience, she took the exit that would lead her to the apartment. She would have really liked some company. Holly was working like a fiend lately, and Lexie had all but disappeared from Laura’s life. Sure, she still paid her rent on the apartment, but she was rarely there since she was, for all intents and purposes, living with Dawson.

Letting Ashton be that company had been a tempting thing, but she knew she had to get up early and be clear-headed. That promotion could mean the world of difference when Lexie decided to make her living with Dawson official and pulled out of paying her share of the very expensive rent.

Laura’s spirits flattened. She felt alone and lonely so much of the time lately. Everything seemed to have lost its luster. Everything she had come to the city for she had gotten, but she was restless and bored and emptied out.

After she’d parked and unlocked the door to her apartment, her cell rang. Hoping it might be Ashton, Laura answered without looking at the screen, and immediately wished she hadn’t as her mother’s disembodied voice came across the line.

“Hello, Laura.”

Laura’s shoulders tensed. That was the last thing she needed! “Hi, mom. How are you?” She managed to keep her voice pleasant, but her belly dropped as she took a seat on the sofa and stared at the wall with unseeing eyes. All it took was a few words to drop her right back into the past and all its grief.

“We’re fine. I just wanted to check in on you.

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