Caught Between Two Billionaires by Skye Warren

Author:Skye Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Book Beautiful
Published: 2020-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

There’s a crowd by the time the construction crew shows up. I expect to see Sutton with them, because he’s the one who’s always managed them. It’s Christopher who appears in a suit and sunglasses, looking like he’s already made his mark on the world instead of only beginning. He does not look at all surprised by the crowd that’s assembled around us.

At first it was only Penny who came and Damon who followed her. There were men who came to consult with Damon, and I wondered whether that was a regular thing. Whether people showed up at the Den at all hours to whisper some serious thing and receive a response. Probably. Eventually word got out, and people started coming to watch.

The protest takes on a life of its own.

It has a hashtag before I even think to post on Instagram: #freethelibrary. Local businesses pick up on it, some of them more serious than others.

Because books are worth saving! posts a local coffee shop.

Mention #freethelibrary to get 30% off, posts a vintage clothing store.

Along with a random ad for shoes.

Blinding light glints off dark sunglasses. He might as well be a stranger, this man in a suit. He looks that cold standing in front of me. Nothing like the man who shivered in my arms.

He looks around before speaking, not in any rush to tell me he’s going to destroy this painting. And the library. “Was this a long game?” he asks finally. “You wanted everyone to hate me after the will reading. I think now it’s done.”

“I didn’t twist your arm into buying a historic building, if that’s what you’re asking.”

“It’s not.”

My mouth is dry from exhaustion and dehydration and paint fumes. He kissed me once, when I was high on the stuff. It won’t happen again. “This wasn’t about revenge. No. I would have done this for the library. For me.” For Sutton.

“Are you going to chain yourself to the front doors?”

That makes me laugh a little. “I don’t have a death wish. Not anymore.”

He absorbs that for a moment. “Sutton isn’t here.”

“I can see that.” His hair would glint like spun gold in this light. His blue eyes would dance with a thousand things to say. His absence is as loud as a shotgun. “He’s at the office?”

“Not likely. He quit after you left.”

It’s like falling two hundred feet and landing backward in the water. Like having the breath knocked out of me. “What?”

“He didn’t send me his itinerary, but I figured he would be in LA by now.”

“No,” I whisper, because that means I’m too late.

“He can’t exactly pull his money out. Can’t close the barn doors after the horses have been let out, was the way he put it. But he can resign his position. That was him choosing you over money, in case the grand gesture wasn’t clear.”

There’s no air at all in my lungs. No air in the warm morning mist. I’m left to sink and sink, unable to breathe. Unable to think.

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