Forbidden Billionaire Protector: Best Friend's Brother, Surprise Pregnancy, Forced Proximity Romance by Lexi Landon

Author:Lexi Landon [Landon, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

LILY

We’re in Atlanta, third city of the tour, a week away from home. Sweets and I are in the press conference hall, for a brief interview, then a night of pictures with the fans.

“What if no one wants to take pictures with me?” I ask as Sweets drags me to the area designated for the pictures.

“Oh, shut the hell up!” Sweets says playfully. “I won’t be mad if you steal my thunder!”

As we stand in front of the photographer, Brody follows our steps very closely. His watchful eyes, ever hidden under the sunshades, stay locked on me, as he tucks his hands behind his back and stands still against the wall.

Behind the velvet rope, there are more photographers and reporters trying to get the next scoop, and the fans who didn’t luck out on the raffle for the right to take a picture with us.

I mean, with Sweets. She’s the focus there, I’m here tagging along just because the press can’t stop talking about me.

The line to my left grows uneasy when another security guard walks to stay beside them, and the people scream and shout in one voice.

After the first ones come, I begin to calm down. First, they take a photo with Sweets, then one with Sweets and I; only if they want to do they take a picture solely with me, and I grin like a fool because several people want to.

They come and go, and Sweets and I get into a little choreography in no time, knocking the pictures out quickly. A staffer comes at the hour mark, requesting our attention as politely as her raspy voice could provide, “The line is dwindling faster than we expected. Do you girls mind if we pick a few fans from the crowd to come take pictures?”

“How long will it take?” Sweets asks.

“Maybe half an hour more,” the staffer responds.

Sweets looks at me, requesting my approval. I look at Brody, giving him a questioning look as to what to do, when I quickly see he has no idea what I’m asking him for.

One way or the other, he signs me an ‘okay,’ and I give Sweets a thumbs up that we can continue.

More fans come. It all goes smoothly, that is until a tall boy in a black and a blue baseball cap changes the status quo and requests a picture with me first.

“I told you would be mine, Lily.” It’s Ben’s voice, and as his hand reaches out to me, I rip his baseball cap, finally recognizing him.

“Brody!” I yell.

Brody dashes forward like an arrow, hands at the ready to apply some martial arts moves on Ben. But Ben reaches inside the pocket of his hoodie and pulls out a knife before he can reach him, swiping it against Brody and drawing out a spray of blood.

“Oh, my God!” I cry with tears in my voice, trying to support Brody with my weight as he feels his lower belly.

“I’m okay,” he says, poorly convincing as he wheezes and stumbles.

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