Island Road: The Billionaire Brothers by Lily Everett

Author:Lily Everett [Everett, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781466832862
Amazon: B00BCFWJ8I
Barnesnoble: B00BCFWJ8I
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

It wasn’t that Miles had previously been unaware of the benefits of being a billionaire. The benefits were obvious, many, and varied. From last-minute reservations at the best restaurants in town to having a chauffeur on staff to drive him through Manhattan’s terrible traffic, Miles enjoyed the lifestyle he worked so hard to maintain.

But nothing he’d ever spent money on compared to the fun of splashing out to give Greta Hackley the most lavish first trip to New York anyone could imagine.

One text to his assistant, Cleo, was all it took to get the whole day set up for them, from box seats at whatever sold-out show was hottest to a very special final stop that required Cleo to pull more than a few strings. But it was more than worth it for the look on Greta’s face.

Watching her as she raced through his stylish apartment with barely a glance at the expensive, modern Italian furnishings and priceless art on the walls, just so she could get downstairs and run straight across the street and into Central Park … Miles couldn’t do anything but laugh and try to keep up.

He followed her as she plunged through the crowds of shoppers mobbing Fifth Avenue, fingers twined together like schoolkids. When he tried to get her to go into Bergdorf Goodman, already imagining her in a slinky couture cocktail dress, Greta refused in favor of studying each artful window display.

When they walked by a street musician playing a Bangles song from the eighties to the delight of the tourists bopping along to the beat, Greta mentioned that she’d always been fascinated by ancient Egypt. One more text to poor, beleaguered Cleo netted them a private tour through the Metropolitan Museum’s famed Temple of Dendur exhibit.

The awe on her face as she peered into the dim recesses of the reconstructed temple left Miles with no choice. In response to his firm nod, the museum docent smiled slightly and backed out of the temple long enough to let Miles kiss Greta under the weight of centuries-old stone from a faraway land.

When Miles got confirmation that the tickets had come through for the hot show, which turned out to be a musical based on a comic book superhero, he gritted his teeth and pretended to be excited at the prospect of watching actors in tights sing and dance their way around a Broadway stage.

But once the curtain came up and Greta leaned forward, the motion making the sequins on the cocktail dress he’d had sent up to his penthouse catch the stage lights and sparkle, Miles couldn’t have cared less that the show was nothing he would have chosen for himself. All he cared about was the delight in Greta’s grin every time the guy playing the superhero was hoisted up to fly through the air, borne aloft on the magic of stagecraft. And the fact that she let him press her into the shadows at the back of their private box during intermission and kiss her against the worn red velvet that covered the walls.

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