Billionaire Secret Club (Books 1-6): A Dark Billionaire Romance Books (The Billionaires Secret Club) by C.C. Piper

Author:C.C. Piper [Piper, C.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

2

Emma

God bless Uber. The driver took me back to the casino so I could retrieve my car, and he didn’t ask any questions. He didn’t look twice at my rumpled dress and unkempt hair. He made no comment as we drove away from the impressive villa James lived in, only to be swallowed into the Las Vegas traffic some twenty minutes later.

I clutched my bag close, trying not to think about the unholy amount of paper money I had in there. The driver seemed none the wiser as he expertly navigated the clogged streets.

Thirty minutes after escaping James’ house, I was huddled inside my own car, my stomach in knots and my mouth tasting of peppermint mouthwash from his enormous master bathroom.

I took a longer route to get home. One would think I would be in a rush to get there, what with having fifty-thousand bucks on the passenger’s seat, but I needed time to think. The knots in my hair were hopeless, but maybe I could do something about the ones in my brain.

I still had trouble wrapping my head around what had happened the previous night. To say that things had gotten out of hand was the understatement of the century. I had no idea how I could lose control of the situation so spectacularly because getting hitched hadn’t been the plan.

All I’d intended to do was sweet-talk some elderly gentleman into loaning me the funds needed and then disappear before his sugar-daddy fantasies could get the better of him. I had not intended to scam a perfectly good guy into marriage, nor had I intended to steal so much money from said guy before breakfast the next day.

It’d all just… happened.

How it’d happened was still a mystery to me.

All I knew was that I felt sick, and not at all as relieved as I thought I would be considering I carried my brother’s salvation in my faux-leather clutch.

I also knew I wouldn’t be as lucky with Evan as I’d been with the Uber driver. There was absolutely no way in hell my brother wasn’t going to give me the third degree.

I sat in the car for a solid fifteen minutes after parking in our driveway, but eventually, I resigned myself to my fate and got out. My stiletto-heeled shoes were in my hand, my feet bare on the asphalt, just as they’d been on the pedals as I drove home from the casino.

The concrete didn’t feel uncomfortable. If anything, the rough sensation grounded me. It helped reality take shape as I forced my way back from the surreal sensation that waking up in a multi-million-dollar home will generate in anyone who doesn’t lead a Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous kind of existence.

I wasn’t exactly astonished to find my brother on the couch watching reruns of Friends on Netflix for what had to be the hundredth time. For the first time, however, he wasn’t laughing. He laid on his side, huddled into an oversized gray hoodie, staring at the TV screen with a vacant stare, errant locks of wavy brown hair falling into his eyes.

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