Courted: An enemies to lovers billionaire romance (Billionaire Brothers of Wheelcaster) by Robecca Austin

Author:Robecca Austin [Austin, Robecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781990356018
Publisher: Colorful Pen Press
Published: 2021-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

8

Friday

Latricia leaned against the leather chair in Heath’s private plane, staring at the diamond wedding band on her finger. It was heavy, a constant reminder of her new state, weighing not only her hand but her heart. The row of diamonds pressed her middle and pinky when she made a fist. She’d twiddled with the ring while watching Heath issue orders to the flight crew through the window. He was carrying on with his business-as-usual attitude, as if nothing in their day had changed. She sighed. She supposed for him it hadn’t.

But the lavishness of the ring, his breathtaking kiss in front of the marriage officiant, his brothers’ presence, and Terrance’s joy were blurring the lines between fiction and reality. The kiss hadn’t been as desperate as their first one, didn’t have the bite of anger from dredging up his past. But it was just as scorching, filling her head with promises not meant to be kept.

His brothers also confused her. Tet pretended to be indifferent, while Shea was pissed. Her heart broke seeing him in a wheelchair as he continued to regain mobility; his usual smile turned into a growl at the mention of a new physical therapist. She’d expected that anger to be directed towards her and was mildly relieved it wasn’t. Shea’s anger seemed directed at himself. She suspected it was because he was in a wheelchair and had nothing to do with her being in Wheelcaster and their sudden marriage. She was relieved because she needed Shea to know that she would never be involved in something like his accident, and it seemed as though he somehow knew that.

Latricia shook her head. How was she going to explain her marriage to Nan, a woman who believed in the sanctity of matrimony? Or that the relationship was temporary.

Her husband.

Pulling out her cell phone, Latricia called home. The phone on the other end rang twice. With each ring, her nerves fluttered. She was about to hang up when a comforting voice answered.

“Hey, Papa.” He was having a good day if he was out of his chair. These last few years, he had quietly kept to himself. But since Chris moved out, taking his turbulent emotions, Papa seemed more like his old self.

“Is that you, baby girl?”

“It’s me, Papa.” She swallowed, not knowing what else to say. Asking her typical questions seemed absurd. “Are you watching the game?”

“Nah,” he said, his voice dropping to a hush. “Your Nan’s got me watching the soaps.”

“Oh no.” She smiled, pulling the phone from her ear; Latricia looked at the time. Two o’clock. It was still too early in the season for college football to be on, but the sports channels would show replays.

“Maybe you can convince her to change it.”

Before she had a chance to ask which soap opera was on, he was gone. She hoped he remembered to tell Nan she was on the phone or it would dangle off the side table for hours.

The minutes stretched. So did her anxiety about telling her grandmother she was married.

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