Out of her League: a one-night, fake date contemporary romance (Millionaires and Makeovers Book 1) by Natalie Anderson

Author:Natalie Anderson [Anderson, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Natalie Anderson
Published: 2022-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Not scarred? Bella doubted that. This was the man who swore never to marry. Who said it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. While many men could claim commitment-phobia, his seemed more vehement than most. If that wasn’t scarred she didn’t know what was. But maybe there was more to it. Her newly assertive, independent persona took a bite of pizza and went for it.

‘And so you’ve just been working on your company ever since? No serious girlfriend?’

‘What is this?’ Irritation flashed. ‘The Spanish Inquisition?’

So there was someone. ‘Just answer.’ She pointed her pizza at him. ‘Has there really been no one serious in your life?’

‘All right.’ He took a huge bite of pizza and answered out the side of his mouth. ‘I had a girlfriend. A long time ago.’ Then he shut his lips and chomped hard.

‘What happened?’

He shrugged, eventually swallowed. ‘Nothing much.’

‘Did you live together?’ Why did she need all the details? She couldn’t help but want all the details.

‘For a while.’

The niggle of jealousy was bigger than she expected. ‘What happened?’

‘She met someone else. They’re married now. Has a kid—two maybe.’

She stared at him, shocked. ‘She left you?’

He looked levelly at her. ‘I’m not a good companion, Bella.’

‘What makes you say that?’ Good grief, the guy was gorgeous.

‘When I’m working on a project, that’s my world, that’s all there is. For those weeks, months, whatever, other things pass me by.’

She frowned. ‘Are you working on something now?’

‘Yes.’

Yet it seemed to her that nothing much passed him by. ‘You don’t think you’re being a little hard on yourself?’

‘I didn’t notice my folks falling apart. I didn’t notice her falling apart.’ His face hardened. ‘I’m selfish Bella, remember?’

She stared, her mental picture elsewhere, thinking. From what she’d seen of him, it didn’t quite ring true—yes, he did what he wanted, but he did what others wanted too. But he’d totally closed over now, moodily staring at the half-eaten pizza.

She wanted to lighten the mood. ‘So what, you just lock yourself away and do geeky boy hacker things?’

His blue eyes met hers and sparked again. ‘I have programmers who build the software, Bella. Then I use the programs to do the work that needs doing.’

‘I’m surprised you need the programmers, Owen,’ she teased, pleased to have his humour back. ‘Why don’t you get all your precious computers to do it all for you?’

He chuckled. ‘There’s one thing that computers can’t do. Something that I can do really, really well.’

‘What’s that?’

‘Imagine,’ he answered softly. ‘I have a really, really good imagination, Bella.’

She stared at him, reading everything she wanted to read in his expression—heat. She was a dreamer—her father had told her off for it. That she wouldn’t get anywhere sitting in a daydream all day…

‘Someone has to dream it up.’

Someone like him. He was so enticing. Did he know what she was imagining right now? She suspected he might because that look in his eye was back.

Confusion made her run for deflection. ‘I could never sit at a computer all day.

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