Billionaire on the Loose by Jessica Clare

Author:Jessica Clare
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-24T17:23:29+00:00

Chapter Ten

The next day

Griffin V: I’m back in town, cousin. Shall we meet up for lunch? Catch up? I’d love for you to meet my fiancée.

Loch: Sounds great. We have a lot to talk about. Today? Tomorrow?

Griffin V: I think I have a few hours today if you’re available and I can get Maylee to clear her schedule. Maybe dinner instead of lunch?

Loch: Sounds good. Name the time and place—my afternoon is open.

Loch strolled into the ritzy seafood restaurant a few hours later, alone. He’d wanted to bring Taylor with him, but she’d been busily catching up on tickets for her job and had a conference call with her boss later that afternoon. She’d seemed genuinely disappointed not to be able to go out, though, and so he’d promised to bring her back something delicious to eat and that they’d have a repeat of yesterday’s make-out session tonight, cuddled on the couch together.

Sounded like a good evening to him, and her eyes had lit up at the suggestion.

He was looking forward to seeing his cousin Griffin again, though. Their schedules constantly seemed to be out of sync in the past few years. They’d caught up at Alex’s wedding, but Griffin had been distracted and his schedule full of business obligations. At the time, Loch had thought his cousin staid and boring with his constant need to work, but now he envied Griffin. The man was never bored, and he was successful, far more than Loch, who didn’t know what to do with himself most times.

He was starting to learn that keeping a steady diet of obligations was not such a bad thing after all. Better late than never, he supposed.

Loch scanned the small restaurant and its sea of tiny, white-cloth-covered tables. A hand raised in the air and Loch waved back. Sure enough, there was his cousin, looking like he hadn’t changed a bit since the last time Loch had seen him. Elegant, a bit austere, his hair was carefully brushed into a short, no-nonsense haircut and he wore a pair of wire-framed glasses on his immaculately shaven face. He wore a gray suit and matching tie, and stood up as Loch approached. Next to him was a woman who Loch vaguely remembered seeing at Alex’s wedding—short, a tumbleweed of white-blonde curly hair, and a big smile. She was also wearing the ugliest suit he’d ever seen.

“Cousin,” Griffin said, extending a hand to shake.

“Lord have mercy,” the woman who surely had to be Maylee declared in a drawl. “They sure do grow ’em big back in Bellissime, don’t they? You look like you’ve been corn-fed all your life.”

“Thank you, I think?” Loch pulled the woman in for a hug, even as Griffin chuckled. “I’m going to assume that’s a compliment.”

“You should!” Maylee beamed up at him, and he liked her, despite her eccentric-looking clothing and the frizzy, wild mop of her hair. She looked sweet and unassuming, the perfect sort of person for his too-starchy cousin.

They sat down and exchanged

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