Billionaire's Fake Fiancé: An Age Gap Romance by Summer James

Author:Summer James [James, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter fourteen

Ashley

I’m expecting everything to be awkward in the morning, but it’s not. We have coffee out on the balcony, and Grant talks a little bit about how things have been going with his father and his brother. But we don’t actually discuss what happened the night before—besides for him checking in and making sure I felt okay when we woke up.

Which is great, you know? I don’t know what I’m supposed to say about it. I liked it. I really, really liked it. And I like Grant a lot, too.

Soon, we’re both getting dressed and heading downstairs, back out into the same hotel restaurant where we’ve been having every breakfast. Don and Cheryl are already there, though there’s no sign of Charlie.

Cheryl asks, “Sleep well?”

“Yes,” I tell her. And then, “Do you think that the meeting will run as late today as it did yesterday?”

Don hums. “I hope not.”

“He only hopes that it doesn’t because I chewed his ear off. Coming in at midnight,” says Cheryl. “He knows better. That wasn’t acceptable twenty years ago, and it certainly isn’t acceptable now. You need to start acting your age, Don. You need sleep.”

“Don’t do this at the breakfast table,” Don tells her, with the weary sigh of someone that has to listen to this a lot. I wonder if Cheryl is part of the reason why the CEO position is up for grabs. That might be part of why Don is so reluctant to decide which of his boys gets it. He wants to be certain that one of them is truly ready, but maybe he’s also not quite ready to let it go.

“Then don’t make bad life choices,” Cheryl chides. Breakfast arrives. I’ve gotten a plate of the full spread, with scrambled eggs and sausage links, and roasted tomatoes on the side.

Don looks around. “Where’s Charlie?” He grumbles.

“I don’t know,” Grant says, with a shake of the head. “I don’t know what his problem was last night.”

Don purses his lips together, having spotted his youngest son heading towards the tables. “There he is. And…” A heavy sigh. “That would be his problem.”

Cheryl swats him on the shoulder. “Don’t you dare say anything about it when that young woman can hear you!”

“I won’t, I won’t,” promises Don.

I twist around in my seat to look. Charlie is heading towards us, with a pretty little brunette at his side. Her sun-tanned skin is glowing and both of her wrists are covered in bracelets made from glassy, brightly colored beads. She’s wearing a matching necklace, with rows and rows of beads, perhaps five or six on top of each other. There’s something classy about the way that she holds herself, though, and her smoky eye shadow ups the look to a completely different level.

“Morning,” says Charlie, sliding into one of the empty seats. “Everyone, this is Zoey.”

She looks a little abashed to be the center of attention, but Don is true to his words and makes no disapproving comments in her presence. That

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