Fortune's Homecoming by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-03-08T21:03:12+00:00

Chapter Nine

Thirty minutes later, it was done.

Billie wasn’t sure if she felt faint because she’d just negotiated the largest deal of her career, or if it was still the aftereffects of kissing Grayson.

Either way, it didn’t really matter.

“Thanks for your time, Bob,” she said to the seller’s broker. “I’ll get the paperwork over to your office as soon as we’re back in town.”

“Your client’s getting a heck of a deal,” he said in return. “You ever decide you want to get out from under DeForest Allen’s thumb, I’ll have a desk waiting for you here at Crenshaw.”

She was smiling as she ended the call and went to find Grayson, who’d tired of pacing around the enormous living room while they waited for the seller’s response to the offer he’d made.

She found him stretched out on the wide ledge of the swimming pool. Cowboy hat propped over half of his face. Still shirtless. One arm trailing in the glittering water.

She was still wearing only her socks, so there was no way he could have heard her footsteps as she neared.

But he still moved his hat and swung his feet down as he sat up, his sinewy muscles bulging, his abs rippling. “Well?”

He was everything the good Lord must have intended when designing a man.

She managed to drag her eyes up to his.

“If they’re balking because we offered a hundred thousand less than they were asking, tell ’em I’ll give ’em full price and buy their dang wine to boot.” He pushed to his feet.

She shook her head. “They accepted your offer. All we have to do now is get it in writing.”

It seemed to take a moment to sink in.

But then he whooped and swung her right off her feet, spinning her around in a circle.

She laughed, caught in his infectious exhilaration. He finally set her back on her feet and grabbed her hand to pull her back into the house. She automatically turned to head for the front foyer, but he had different ideas.

“I want to look at the rest of my house.”

She thought of the paperwork that needed to be done as quickly as possible, and dragged her heels. Which, considering they were covered in cotton socks and the floor was covered with slick tile, turned out to be fairly ineffective. “You should have looked while I was on the phone with the owner’s broker. A verbal agreement can still go awry, Grayson.”

“It won’t.” He’d pulled her, sliding along the floor, right to the rear staircase that led to the upper floor. “I told you. This is my lucky house. Either pick up your feet, darlin’, or I’ll pick ’em up for you.”

She knew the basement contained the wine cellar, a workout room and another all-purpose room. The main floor had the kitchen, living and dining areas. The upper, the bedrooms.

And after that kiss in the wine cellar, she wasn’t sure it was all that wise getting anywhere near a bedroom. The house might be vacant, but it still had enough furnishings so that it showed well to prospective buyers.

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