Harlequin Presents--July 2021--Box Set 2 of 2 by Sharon Kendrick

Author:Sharon Kendrick [Kendrick, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ONE

You were right about the dress, Ash. I’m not even the most naked woman here... But what happened with the tux? You had one job, Ash!!

LUKE BROUSSARD TOOK another sip from his beer and continued to watch the woman standing on the opposite side of the arbour as she finished texting, switched off her phone and tucked it back in her purse. Her gold dress shimmered in the dusky orange light as the sun sank into San Francisco Bay, accentuating her high breasts and slender neck.

He’d spotted her twenty minutes ago, busy fending off all the eligible heterosexual bachelors, as soon as he’d arrived at this wedding in the Botanical Gardens. That stunning dress and the even more stunning figure it displayed had been turning heads ever since.

But it wasn’t her body which had snagged his attention. Not entirely, anyway.

He sipped the cold brew again, to douse the low-grade fire in his pants which was calling him a liar.

Nah, the thing that had really intrigued him was the fact that he didn’t recognise her. And he was pretty sure he knew all the available women on the West Coast scene, because he’d either dated them or they’d hit on him.

Who the heck is she?

At first he’d wondered if she’d crashed the event. He’d crashed enough of these things himself, when he’d been starting out and trying to get funding for Broussard Tech’s first prototypes, to make the thought fire his imagination and his libido.

As he’d observed her, though, he’d discarded that idea. She looked way too elegant and aloof to be here without an invitation.

Which only made her more fascinating.

Her unattainable, ethereal beauty reminded him of the girls he’d never been good enough for in high school. The rich, fancy, privileged girls from the right side of the tracks who had been eager to make out with him after-hours on a game night, but had ignored him the next day in class because he’d lived in a trailer park, had a deadbeat for a father, worked two jobs and still hadn’t been able to afford the latest high-tops.

Those memories amused him now he was worth billions and change.

But could that explain why the woman in gold had captured his attention? Did she represent a chance to relive those old high school humiliations and win? No woman was unattainable to him now. Not even one as stunning as her.

He gulped his beer as he noticed her chewing her bottom lip. Maybe she wasn’t as aloof and composed as she seemed. He continued to study her. She actually looked kind of tense. Not aloof so much as uncomfortable.

Interesting. He hated these types of events, too.

He would never usually attend something like this, because if there was one thing he hated more than being on display, it was being on display in a monkey suit.

He tugged at his shirt collar and dragged off the tie which had been strangling him ever since the happy couple had said their vows five minutes ago. He shoved the tie in his pocket.

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