Betraying the Billionaire by Victoria Davies

Author:Victoria Davies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Billionaire Romance; American Humorous Fiction; Contemporary American Fiction; Contemporary Short Stories; Contemporary Women's Fiction; Two-Hour Romance Short Reads; Women's Humorous Fiction; Women's Short Stories; Romantic Themes Workplace; Fake Identity; Alpha Hero; Shy Heroine; Twins; hidden Identity; Betrayal; Enemies to Lovers; Forbidden Love; Opposites Attract; Contemporary; NYC; Victoria Davies; Indulgence; Entangled; Popular Romance; Contemporary Romance; Short Romance; Category Length Romance; Successful Hero; Curvy Heroine;
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Look who decided to show up to work.”

Julian glanced up from his desk to see Jason and Ryan enter his office.

“What are you doing here?” he asked Ryan.

His friend shrugged. “Took a long lunch. We haven’t seen you in a while.”

He grinned. “I’ve been busy.”

The men each took a chair around his desk while he saved the document he was working on before giving them his full attention.

“Yeah, you have,” Jason said, wiggling his eyebrows.

Ryan rolled his eyes. “How old are you?”

“All men are teen boys at heart.”

Julian shook his head. He sure as hell had felt like a teenager these past weeks, desperate for his next roll in the hay. Since he and Lillian returned from the B&B, something was different in their relationship. More intense. More real.

More permanent.

It was like the marriage had gone from an ethereal concept to a real eventuality.

Because we’re committed to each other now.

Every morning when he left her, he couldn’t wait to return. It wasn’t a sentiment he’d ever dealt with before. These days, they spent more nights together than they did apart. He’d waited for the suffocation to come, but it never had. Instead, he slept more soundly than he ever had before.

“You’ve been playing hooky a lot recently,” Ryan said.

He grinned. “I only took Monday off.”

“To do what?” Jason asked.

“Stay in bed.”

Jason laughed while Ryan shook his head. “I wonder what HR would have to say about your use of working hours,” he said.

“Considering he could fire and replace the whole department if he wanted to, I think they’re cool with it,” Jason teased.

Ryan crossed his arms and shook his head. “What did I do to deserve you two?”

“You’re just that lucky,” Jason replied.

“Did you need me on Monday?” he asked.

Ryan shrugged. “Not really. I’ve been working with Jason as outside counsel on the merger, and the numbers still aren’t adding up.”

He leaned back in his chair with a sigh. “What’s your gut telling you?”

Ryan sighed. “When you see the sorts of patterns we’re finding in the balance sheets…”

“It points to cooking the books,” Jason said, his humor falling away. “There’s something going on here, Julian. We don’t know what it is exactly yet, but the Abbotts are definitely skating around the truth.”

He ran a hand over his jaw. “Hell.”

“I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself with your future wife, but given what we’re finding…”

“We’re wondering if she’s a distraction,” Jason finished bluntly.

Something in his chest twisted. “You think John is parading a beautiful woman in front of me in hopes that I don’t pay as much attention to the merger as I should.”

His two friends looked at each other before nodding.

Pushing from his chair, he paced over to the windows and looked down at the bustling metropolis.

Is Lillian lying to me?

Or was she an unwitting pawn?

She said she had a secret. Something that was keeping her away from me.

He remembered the pain in her expression the night at the B&B. That hadn’t been the expression of a jaded seductress playing a role.

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