Kissing the Billionaire by Jillian Riley

Author:Jillian Riley [Riley, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

13

Can’t Win for Losing

Darla Williamson stormed into the restaurant, with both of her kids in tow. “Mama, can we play with Parker?”

“Not today, Jamison.” She shouted to the back, “Marie? I need to talk to you.”

Marie came out with a concerned look on her face. “What’s wrong, Darla?”

“I want to un-sign that petition.”

Darla had been one of the early adopters. She’d said that she loved looking for turtle nests with her kids and wanted to help protect her kids’ heritage.

“Why? What’s happened?”

“I had a big fight with Phil after that press conference you held. He’d been talkin’ to one of those developers about maybe selling our house and when the guy found out I’d signed your petition, he took back his offer. Said he was gonna go up to Mexico City and build up there.”

“But that’s what we want, Darla!”

“Phil says that we were gonna take that money and move out to Lake Okeechobee. Now we can’t do it and are stuck with just the insurance money to fix up our place. We barely got enough to just fix the damage, let alone do anything nice with it. Phil thinks that maybe if I un-sign it we can talk to the guy and he’ll change his mind and still buy our place.”

Marie couldn’t believe this. The whole “let’s go to the media” thing was totally backfiring. She’d gotten several calls on her work line basically saying the same thing. She was driving away developers and people were mad at her because they wanted the money.

Sighing, Marie said, “Sure. I’ll take your name off the petition.”

“Good. Thanks.” Grabbing her kids by the hands, she said, “Come on, guys. Let’s go get an ice cream.”

We have ice cream here, Marie thought.

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