Daisy's Secret Billionaire by Francesca Lane

Author:Francesca Lane [Lane, Francesca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

After breakfast, they walked back to Daisy’s house. Even with a rise in the day’s humidity, her conversation at the bakery with Jake had made her feel as if she was floating on a sea breeze—despite the problem he faced in Los Angeles. Though she didn’t know all the details, Jake’s setback fed a desire within her to help him as he had helped her, though she had no idea how.

When they returned, Serge was outside of his van, reassembling the parts of the cleaning machine. She sensed movement near the house and looked up to find Rafael standing on the stoop, watching them, his thick arms crossed across his bare chest.

Daisy turned to Jake. “I need to take care of paying Serge. Talk later?”

He grinned and reached out to play with a tendril of her wayward hair. “You bet. Let me take you to dinner tonight.”

“Tonight?”

He raised one brow. “Tell me you haven’t made plans with that pretty boy again.”

She grabbed his hand from where it played with her hair. “Jake,” she hissed. “Shush or he’ll hear you.”

Jake slid a glance toward the front door of her house. “Maybe I need to speak a little louder then.”

Daisy continued to whisper harshly, a laugh playing on her face. “You’re ridiculous. Yes, I’ll have dinner with you. Now, go.”

He chuckled and kissed her hand before she broke free of him. As he was walking backward across the divide to his family’s house, he called back, “And wear those stilettos!”

Daisy stole a quick glance back at him before returning her attention to Serge, who had just closed up the door to his van. She hoped her face didn’t look as red as it felt. “All finished?”

“I am. Got a lot of dirt and smoke out of there. You’ll need to stay off of the carpets at least a day, especially with this muggy weather we’re suddenly having.”

So she wouldn’t be able to move back into her mother’s house quite so fast … she tried to hide her smile. “Got it. Can I text payment to you tonight?”

“Sure thing,” Serge said.

Rafael leaned his arms onto the railing near her front door. “You have accomplished much in one day, Daisy.”

She looked up, shading her eyes with a hand. He wore an expression she couldn’t read. “You heard then … about the red tag being removed?” She didn’t mention how close she was to failing inspection and Rafael’s potential part in that.

He shrugged and darted a glance toward Jake’s. “I figured as much.”

“Such good news, right?”

He didn’t answer right away. Instead, he pushed himself off the railing and raised both palms. “Yes. Excellent news. But what’s going on with you and Jake?”

She stepped closer to the stoop. “We’re friends.”

Rafael gave her a closed-mouth humph. “Thought he was dead to you.”

Daisy winced. “Did I say that?”

“You acted like it.”

“I shouldn’t have done that.”

He crossed his arms. “So you and that guy are a thing now?”

Daisy shrugged, though her mouth curled into a smile on its own volition.

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