His Billion-Dollar Secret:: A Taboo Forbidden Love Romance by Kelli Walker

Author:Kelli Walker [Walker, Kelli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookify.shop
Published: 2018-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

Colton

I sat in a chair in the living room with my eyes locked onto the wall. I heard Clay in the other room talking, and by the way he was talking I figured he was on the phone with our Public Relations department. He should’ve been on the phone with the damn police, trying to figure out where the hell Callie had gotten off to. She’d been gone for four solid hours and the sun was beginning to sink too low beyond the trees for my liking. I wanted to call her. To try and get her on the phone just to make sure she was all right. But I knew Callie, and if she ran off and needed space, then I needed to give that to her.

It didn’t stop me from wanting to get her on the phone, though.

“We’re only going to be reactive at this point. If he goes to the media, we’ll respond. But if nothing else is incited, then we won’t escalate the fight. Uh huh. Yep. That’s exactly what I told him. Prepare a statement just in case he fires off, but I don’t want anything else in the hands of the press unless Matthew opens his mouth first.”

I smoothed my finger across my lips as my chin sat against my thumb. I heard Clay hang up the phone before his foosteps backtracked into the room, and when he saw me he sat as far away from me as he could. I knew he was worried about Callie as well. It was honestly the only thing keeping him from ripping my head off. I knew my brother well. And I knew that look in his eye. He was ready to dig my grave next to Cathy’s in the cemetary, and I knew the only thing holding him back was Callie.

The same thing that kept me held behind that same line drawn in the sand.

My eyes kept falling to my watch, and every once in a while I felt Clay dart his gaze over to me. I wanted to address it. I wanted to start the conversation and fucking get it over with. Callie didn’t need to come back into this house with the kind of tension that had filled it since her abrupt leave. But if I opened up that can of worms, Clay would attack, and he wouldn’t stop until I was bleeding again on the floor. If there was one person he didn’t play around with, it was Callie.

My best bet was to let him come to me whenever the urge to kill me subsided.

I lost myself in my own mind. I allowed it to spiral as the minutes ticked on. All those things Callie said on the porch? I wanted all of it to be true. I wanted her to have wanted that between us. Hell, I wanted her to keep wanting it. Hearing her say it filled my chest with a hope I never thought I’d get when it came to her, and I prayed to every God that might have existed that she was speaking the truth.

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