Finding Forever: Billionaire, Fake engagement romance by Valentina Burns

Author:Valentina Burns [Burns, Valentina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valentina Burns
Published: 2024-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

The new Morgan Construction build was located on the other side of town. As they drove there, Lucy took in the surrounding neighborhood from the passenger window. The eclectic mix of high-rises and businesses hugging the periphery of downtown created a perfect place to put up an apartment building. The area was a good location, on transit routes, walkable, but not quite in the dense part of the urban core. Location was everything, and Joel knew how to pick it.

“As soon as we realized Hope was going to settle down in Portland, Dad and I figured it made sense to expand the business here,” Joel explained as they drove. “We saw this strip of land for sale and snapped it up.”

Lucy laughed out loud, and Joel took his eyes off the road for a second to give her a perplexed look. “What?”

Lucy deepened her voice to mimic his. “I just snapped it up for a cool hundred million.” She snapped her fingers, then dropped her hand with a breathy laugh. “I love how the ultra-rich talk.”

Joel frowned. “It was 102 million, actually.”

She bit the inside of her cheek. She’d annoyed the billionaire by teasing him about his riches. “How many stories?”

“Twenty-five,” he grumbled.

They pulled up to the site. Joel got out of the car, stopping to get something out of the trunk before he met her on the sidewalk. He held out a bright yellow construction hard hat.

“Is this necessary?”

“We’re going behind the gate, so yes.” He plopped the hard hat on her head before putting on his own.

“A real tour then,” Lucy mused as she faced one of the site’s entrances. “Too bad I forgot my steel-toed boots.”

“I have some for you.” Joel went back to the trunk and pulled out a box.

“Seriously?” Lucy opened the box, sure enough a very nice feminine looking pair of black steel-toed boots sat inside.

“Safety first.” Was all she got from moneybags.

She’d been around construction enough in her life to know that going into an active site without the hardware was ill advised, she’d assumed they’d be lingering on the sidewalks outside of the site. Her mistake.

Several minutes later, a security guard opened the main gate of the construction site fencing surrounding the property. The foundation was already laid, with concrete poured and the skeleton was starting to go up.

“Who did the design?” she asked as they walked a safe distance around where the crew was working.

“We used a local architect. We felt it was important to get someone who knew the city and had their hand in other developments here. They were fantastic. It’s going to look incredible.” Joel turned into a different person when he talked about business.

And Lucy lapped it up. He spoke with utter confidence about property development and construction, and she thought again how lucky Walter was to have a child who was so deeply invested in the family business. And how lucky Joel was that his father considered him worthy enough to entrust his empire too.

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