Billionaires On the Beach: The Anderson Brothers by Elizabeth Lennox & Noelle Adams & Leslie North & Lizabeth Scott & Gloria Silk

Author:Elizabeth Lennox & Noelle Adams & Leslie North & Lizabeth Scott & Gloria Silk [Lennox, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Wyatt was head deep in work the next two days. With the Internet back on, he had a lot of catching up to do. He ate what Laine brought him, scarcely pausing to taste it. He was restless and stressed from the confinement. He lived for Tiki time, swimming and surfing for every second of his allotted two hours.

Still, he was in a bad mood. He caught himself snapping at a business associate on Skype and he was abrupt with his assistant on the phone as well. He told himself it was the backlog of work, but he knew it had to do with the fact that Laine was downstairs on the couch watching a marathon of the Jack Ryan movies without him. And she was doing Sudoku in ink pen—who else had that kind of confidence? After erasing a hole in the paper of a puzzle page she’d given him—his penciled in numbers frustratingly wrong, he’d downloaded the app she liked and he couldn’t get past the second level, despite his stellar education. He was yelling at people and pushing for crazy deadlines because he had all this pent-up sexual tension. He missed her. It was as stupid as that.

Wyatt was doing pushups and trying to get his head back in the business deal when Laine walked in to ask him if he wanted smoky minestrone with tortellini for supper or fried zucchini on grilled pitas. “Neither,” he said, barely looking up, “I’m taking care of dinner.”

She stared at him, flabbergasted, but backed out of the room.

***

Later, Laine checked her phone and found a text from Wyatt that read, “Meet me downstairs for dinner in an hour.” Giddy, she called and told Vanessa.

“I don’t care if it’s takeout pizza, he’s taking care of dinner when that’s your job. You better give it up tonight. I can’t believe you haven’t slept with him yet. You went home with that loser from the bowling alley on my birthday.”

“He wasn’t from the bowling alley! He had an apartment; he just worked at the bowling alley. And I had way too many shots on your birthday,” Laine laughed.

“Yeah, you did, so I’m not sure why you’re so positive you want to settle down and have a nice boring life raising someone else’s kids.”

“Cooking didn’t work out for me, okay? All the pressure in the kitchen, it was so hectic and loud. I want a home and a family, and since it hasn’t happened for me, the next best thing is being there for someone else’s kids, okay? Now let me go put on makeup.”

“By makeup I assume you mean birth control.”

“Shut up, I’m not having sex with him.”

“Have some wine. Use it as an excuse. Like you did that time at the karaoke bar.”

“I did not have sex in a karaoke bar.”

“No. You sang Lady Gaga and took off your top!”

“I had a bra on and so did you!”

“I wish I had it on video as proof that you do know how to cut loose once in a while.

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