Damaged & Off Limits Books 5--6 by C.C. Piper

Author:C.C. Piper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C.C. Piper

Off Limits

A Dark Billionaire Romance (The Billionaire’s Secret Club Series Book)

1

Alaina

As I traipsed across the campus at Seattle University, I twisted my infinity ring around my pinky and took in a deep, cleansing breath. The ring had been a graduation gift from my parents, though I suspected my dad had more to do with it than my mom. For years I’d worn it without giving much thought to what that symbol meant. Infinity equaled forever, as in, I’ll love you forever.

But I knew love tended to be conditional rather than infinite.

Oh, well.

The familiar scents of pine, fir, spruce and redcedar permeated the air, reminding me of my childhood. This was a place so unlike London, where the ever-present odor of exhaust fumes and petrol reigned. Not that living in the heart of Britain was an urban nightmare or anything. I’d enjoyed residing there over the past three years.

Almost everything about that city was historic with a capital H. London was a fascinating location, and it had been amazing to experience it firsthand. But it couldn’t compare to the pristine greenness of the Pacific Northwest. At least, not to me.

I’d returned because I wanted to strike out on my own as an entrepreneur, something far easier to do in America than in England. As an expat, I would’ve had to jump through about a million different hoops to begin a startup overseas. Doing the same here would still require a lot of effort, but there were more opportunities overall. Opportunities I intended to take advantage of.

On my way to my cute little aqua Mini-Cooper convertible – one I’d purchased while in England – I caught sight of a group of tall men in red jerseys, the Seattle University Redhawks. The Redhawks were the college’s Division One basketball team, and they competed frequently in the NCAA championships.

But it wasn’t the fact that this mass of admittedly handsome players were eyeing me as they strutted by that caught my attention. What made me do a doubletake was a flash of bright copper hair. I scrutinized them again, narrowing my eyes as I searched for August “Auggie” Cunningham. But the redheaded guy I saw wasn’t him. Auggie wouldn’t show up nearly five thousand miles away from his beloved alma mater in Oxford, anyway.

My ex-boyfriend was probably too busy boinking my ex-best friend and roommate, Gwen Howard to be thinking about me.

He – or they – were the other reason I’d moved back to the States. I’d thought of Gwen as a sister, as my British BFF. And I’d thought Auggie and I would go the distance, as well. We’d made plans as a couple, and since we’d been together for over two years, I’d believed in those plans with all my heart.

I would obtain my British citizenship. We would settle in some quaint cottage just outside of London and commute to work so we’d experience the best of both worlds. We’d discussed getting married sooner rather than later, and we also wanted to start a family within the next three to five years.

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