Dirty Ruthless Billionaire (Part One) by Paige North

Author:Paige North [North, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Favor Ford Publishing
Published: 2018-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

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I’d heard of people waking up in the morning feeling like life as they knew it would be ending that day. I hadn’t known it this morning. Had no freaking clue, actually. But maybe walking by the ice cream parlor and having all those memories had been my wake-up call that Dex Banner was back in town.

Back to wreak havoc, from the looks of it.

My father wouldn’t answer his calls the rest of the day. My mother told me to give him time. That was probably for the best, because I had a thousand and one questions for him, and I knew we wouldn’t be able to talk about them without me getting upset.

To make it worse, I got an email from my new boss after dinner. He couldn’t leave me alone even during down-time, could he? Couldn’t give us a day or two to recover. Nah. Let’s get right on the wagon and start the bullshit, why don’t we? I ignored it for a while, because I wasn’t ready yet.

Maybe I didn’t have to do this.

Maybe I could find a job in another industry, so I wouldn’t be in violation of the non-compete clause. But what else did I know how to do? Carlyle Development was my life. I’d gone to college and graduated in business just so I could help run my father’s company. My father’s, not Dex’s.

Fuck.

Punching the heavy bag in the basement after dinner, doing my best roundhouse kicks, I imagined Dex’s face as the target of my uppercuts. Even Kitty Purry got into the fun, jumping on the bag’s base and pretending to ambush Dex’s imaginary feet. Getting evenly sweaty all over, it was the best workout I’d had in a while. When I’d released all the stress I was going to release for the evening, I showered and settled down at my desk with a glass of merlot to read this stupid email.

There was some business event tomorrow evening that he wanted me to attend. I could take tomorrow during the day to rest before new policies fell into place, he said, but he expected me to spend the day reviewing the attached files and getting acquainted with the information.

I couldn’t believe I was getting emails from Dex as CEO of my father’s company. No matter how long I lived, that would never stop being surreal.

I got up, walked over to my punching bag, and gave it one more shot. Then, I came back and let out a huge breath. I could do this. There was nothing this life couldn’t throw at me that I couldn’t handle. I’d gotten through the summer of my graduation year, I could get through this.

Opening the files, I began to read.

Little by little, my heart dropped.

This motherfucker had already used our remaining cash to put us into jeopardy with a very large, very unnecessary investment. On top of that, I knew this piece of land, this property he was wishfully thinking he could sell to potential buyers. It had significant problems over the last few years and would be super difficult to turn a profit on.

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