Melody Anne's Billionaire Universe: Runaway Billionaire (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Desiree Holt

Author:Desiree Holt [Holt, Desiree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-04-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“You’re looking chipper this morning.” Cilla stood in the kitchen, hands on hips, studying Pepper.

“Why shouldn’t I? I had a good night’s sleep.”

“Really?” A grin teased at Cilla’s mouth. “So, after the big dinner last night, you and your so-called fiancé came back here and you hopped into bed. Alone.”

“Yes.” Pepper concentrated on the scones she was plating. “Of course. And what do you mean, ‘big’ dinner? It was dinner with my folks. That’s all.”

“Oh, please.” Cilla flapped a hand at her. “My phone rang off the hook last night, people who wanted all the gory details. Your mama gave a fine performance, fawning all over him while giving him the third degree.”

Pepper snorted. “You got that right. I have no idea why he didn’t run screaming into the night.” She sighed. “I have to agree Mama can be a bit much.” And wasn’t that just stating the obvious.

Cilla giggled. “So did she have the date set, the venue booked, and the guest list done by the time dinner was over?”

Pepper filled a second plate with poppy seed muffins, today’s flavor, and carried them into the dining room. Cilla had shown up at the crack of dawn, eager for gossip, and made herself useful by setting the table. The rest of the ingredients for today’s meal—omelets, buttermilk pancakes, bacon, fragrant sage and pepper sausage, and sliced melons, strawberries and kiwi—were ready in the fridge for when the first guests came downstairs. And, for a touch of morning decadence, a chocolate layer cake. She loved gastronomically shocking the guests sometimes.

“She tried damn hard,” Pepper told her friend. “But I’m getting almost as good at avoiding commitments as she is at trying to pin me down.”

“At least it got you out of dinner with yucky Judd Wallace.”

“Nothing, and I repeat nothing, would have gotten me to dinner with that jerk.” She smacked a cake server against the sink. “Not even my mother.”

“Okay, then.” Cilla fixed a mug of coffee for herself, stirring in cream and sugar. “So you’re telling me that after that hot kiss performance yesterday, nothing else happened?”

“Yes. Right. That’s what I’m telling you.”

Cilla cocked an eyebrow. “Even after spending the day holding hands?”

Pepper glared at her. “I see Gossip Central has been at it again.”

“But isn’t that what you want? It gets your folks off your back and makes your little fairy tale plausible, right?” She tilted her head. “It is nothing more than a fairy tale, right, Pepper?”

“Of course. Can you help me fold napkins?”

“Nice change of subject there.” Cilla laughed. “Okay, I see my curiosity isn’t about to be satisfied. But let me tell you, girl. If I had a hunk like that pretending to be my fiancé, I’d have a hard time not trying to make it the real thing.”

Pepper scowled. “Marry a man I don’t know?”

Everything else aside, she really didn’t know Kyle Montgomery. Who was he when he wasn’t playing tourist in Bayview? What did he do for a living beside “run a

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