Forgiving the Billionaire: A Sweet Best Friend's Brother Romance (Silicon Valley Billionaires Book 1) by Macie St. James

Author:Macie St. James [St. James, Macie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

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The plan was to go straight to work. No stopping at the café, no matter what. If he stopped by, he wouldn’t want to leave. He was already still fuzzy brained from having dinner with Alyssa the previous night.

But Jeremy couldn’t stay away. He found himself taking a right turn when he should have been going straight. There wasn’t a line in front of the store. He saw that as he approached and wasn’t sure if it was a good or bad sign. On one hand, he wanted the café to have the business, but on the other, a crowd like yesterday could overload his sister and Alyssa, leading to shortages in…well, everything. Plus, one of the first things his sister had told him when she’d mentioned Alyssa helping out was that it was just temporary. The plan was to hire someone full-time, relieving his sister while also letting Alyssa focus on her new marketing firm.

At which point, she wouldn’t be around as much.

Jeremy pulled into a parking space several blocks away—the closest he could find—and smiled to himself at the thought of seeing Alyssa again. Last night had been…frustrating. As he’d sat across from her at that table, in a setting obviously meant for couples, he’d wanted so much more. It had been a work of sheer will to keep himself from reaching out to take her hand.

As they’d chitchatted about the café and tried to make this as casual as possible, all he’d been able to think about was kissing her at the end of the evening. But when they’d left the restaurant, she’d said she wanted to get home and sleep, which he’d taken as a sign he shouldn’t ask her to go for a walk. His vehicle had barely rolled to a stop in front of the café when her door opened and she climbed out with a hasty, “Goodnight. Thanks for everything.”

So much for kissing her goodnight.

Not that he would have tried, anyway. He wasn’t even sure he had the green light. Every time he tried to get a little romantic, she seemed to shut him down. Even when he’d tried to tell her she’d looked nice, she’d quickly dismissed him. But it seemed they were sharing long, meaningful glances more often lately. At least they meant something on his end.

Jeremy was so caught up in his thoughts, he didn’t immediately notice things were unusual on the other side of the big windows he was passing. Only when he arrived at the door and reached for the handle to open it did he see the crowd gathered inside. And a small group of people was approaching to his left, waiting for him to enter.

This place was beyond busy. There wasn’t a line out the door, granted, but there was at least one person seated at every table, a large group of people gathered around the area where Alyssa was doing her latte art, and a line at the cash register, placing orders. This was how it was every day when they first opened.

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