Everything I Hoped For: A Journey's End Billionaire Romance (Journey's End Billionaires Book 3) by Ann Christopher

Author:Ann Christopher [Christopher, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Iris Press
Published: 2018-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

13

Wait, what?

His dream girl? Had he actually just produced such a sickly-sweet thought? Had he been catapulted into some fairy tale without his own knowledge?

Quite possibly.

The lovely Dr. Harrison had just shaken him up like one of Bond’s martinis. That was for sure.

Given the emptied-out status of his head, it was a damn good thing that she was preoccupied with the dinner because he was more than preoccupied with her. And being here with her like this…seeing where and how she lived…coming into face-to-face contact with how much he wanted her and how much he longed to stay for a while yet—it all added another thick layer to his sweet misery.

Leaving her to go back home for nearly two weeks—fourteen bloody days!—would slice a clean year off his life. No doubt.

But she’d asked him a question, hadn’t she?

He squinted at her, trying to focus.

Yes. She definitely had that bright-eyed air of expectancy about her. There was a question on the table.

“I, ah…” He scratched his head as heat flooded his face, wishing his brain worked better. Or at all. Probably best to just come clean. “Sorry. I don’t think you should expect me to be an intelligent conversationalist when you parade around in that body.”

An incredulous snort of laughter from Melody.

“Parade around—? What are you talking about?”

“This whole…” His helpless wave encompassed her from head to toe. “What you’re working with.”

More laughter.

“What I’m working with? Are you picking up slang from American teenagers? Never say that again.”

“Glad I amuse. And how do you keep yourself in such exceptional shape, pray?”

Melody hesitated, her hand going to her hair to make sure it covered the side of her face.

Without thinking, he intercepted her hand, lowered it and brushed her hair back from her face.

“Don’t do that,” he said quietly, his words scripted by an entity that seemed to have nothing to do with the working remnants of his brain. “You don’t need to hide anything from me. Ever.”

She flushed scarlet. Looked down.

He couldn’t have that either.

So he tapped her under the chin.

“You’re stunning, darling. Hold your head up high.”

She looked at the floor. Her feet. Anything but him.

“Anthony…”

He waited in silence.

She blew out a breath. Raised her head, cheeks pink and eyes shining. Steadily met his gaze while she tucked that same hair behind her ear.

He felt a tremendous surge of satisfaction.

“There. That’s better, isn’t it?”

“I’m not sure,” she said, dimpling at him. “I feel a little shaky with you, to be honest.”

He opened his mouth with no real idea of what to say. Only the absolute certainty that more of the right words were on the way.

“We’re just having a quiet dinner together. Nothing to feel shaky about.” He paused, feeling more than a little shaky himself. “And you were about to tell me how you stay in such fantastic shape.”

“I, ah…” She blinked and seemed to get her thoughts together. “Spinning. Weight lifting. A little yoga.”

“Where on earth do you find the time?”

“I have to make the time. It helps me decompress and stay sane, so I do what works.

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