Filthy Rich: A Spicy Billionaire Romance (Contemporary Romance Book 3) by Denise Daye

Author:Denise Daye [Daye, Denise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

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I lay on the bed staring at the ceiling. It had been six weeks since I moved in, and although it had seemed for a while that things were getting better after the car incident, I still felt like I was fighting on multiple fronts. Lucy was definitely out to get me, and Benjamin was not always around to help. Everything I did or said was wrong and worthless in the eyes of Lucy Radcliff, and I found myself under constant attack from that dragon.

One time, she had the audacity to call a meeting when Benjamin had to work late. When I showed up for it, she announced that the house was starting to smell like homeless people and that I was expected to change my clothes and shower before I entered the house. I was about to quit right there and then and tell that bitch all I had on my mind when Lorena stepped forward and told Lucy that they had found a dead mouse behind a shelf in the library. Any decent person would have apologized to me, but not Lucy. Oh no. She had stormed off to plan her next attack, hating me even more now that the staff sided with me against her.

“At least Benjamin is on your side. Your husband is all that matters,” my father had commented on the whole thing. Strangely enough, the thought of Benjamin having my back a hundred percent of the time when it came to Lucy Radcliff actually did calm me. It filled me with the hope and energy to keep going. The dinners with him were going a lot better, too. We didn’t insult one another as much and even laughed here and there. Topics were kept superficial, nothing deep, but who cared as long as it was peaceful?

Music in the far distance tore me away from my thoughts. I rubbed my forehead, listening. The sounds—screams, laughter, and cheers—seemed to increase. The voices drifted high and low as if from wandering ghosts. I peeked at my phone: nine p.m.

“What’s going on out there?” I muttered, walking over to the door and opening it slightly. I peeked down the hallway but only heard cheerful voices coming from downstairs. I walked to the stairway and leaned over the dark oak railing. There were people moving around, dancing, and drinking in the library and social hall.

“A party? Seriously?”

I was about to go back into the safety of my room when my eyes spotted Lucy Radcliff. She was dressed like she was at the Oscars, sharing an artificial laugh over something the two women standing with her had said. One of them seemed to have noticed me and looked up. Lucy followed her gaze and the moment she saw me, that fake laugh vanished. She frantically waved at me to go away.

Oh . . . you don’t want me here, huh?

I returned to my room and sat on my bed. Laughter rose from beyond the door and, for some reason, brought

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