ROMANCE: That Boy Is Mine (BWWM Billionaire Multicultural Romance) (New Adult Contemporary Interracial Romance Short Stories) by Chloe Gaines

Author:Chloe Gaines [Gaines, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Single Authors, 45 Minutes (22-32 Pages), Contemporary Fiction, United States, African American, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Short Stories & Anthologies
Amazon: B015S7QWCO
Published: 2015-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Sam waited outside on the curb while Adele paid the bill. She met him when she came out of the restaurant. “What’s the matter?”

“Nothing,” he replied. “Why?”

“Why did you walk off like that?” She asked.

He turned away and looked up at the stars in the sky. “I just did.”

“Does it make you uncomfortable or something,” she asked, “that I paid for the meal?”

He followed her across the parking lot toward her car. “I just wish you wouldn’t keep throwing money in my face.”

“How have I thrown money in your face?” she asked.

“You offered to buy me a new fridge, and you offered to bring me into your contract negotiation as an independent consultant. Every time something comes up between us, you throw your money at it. I don’t like it, and I want you to stop.”

“I don’t think I am,” she told him. “I’m only doing what makes sense to me. I have money and you don’t. Why can’t I use my money to make your life better by buying you a fridge? And I offered you the position as a consultant because I thought you’d make a valuable asset to our team. I did it for purely selfish reasons, I assure you.”

They got in the car and started driving back across town. “Just don’t do it anymore. I don’t like it, and if you don’t stop, I might have to stop seeing you.”

She grinned sidelong at him. “Are you seeing me now?”

“You know what I mean,” he replied. “It’s bad enough not knowing where next month’s rent money is going to come from without you shoving my situation in my face all the time.”

“I’m only trying to help you,” she told him. “I’m trying to give you options and opportunities. It’s my way of giving back.”

“I don’t want options and opportunities,” he grumbled.

“Then you have no one to blame for your own failure but yourself. You won’t take an opportunity when it’s handed to you on a silver platter, and you won’t let anyone do something nice for you. That’s a pretty rotten way to live.”

They pulled up in front of where Sam’s house was, hidden behind the bushes. He opened the door and the interior light came on. They studied each other at close range. “If you think the way I live is so rotten, maybe we shouldn’t see each other again.”

“I don’t know how you live,” she replied. “I don’t know anything about you, except what you tell me.”

He nodded toward where his door lay. “You could find out. Do you still want to come in and see my work?”

Adele took her keys out of the ignition. “Sure.”

He led her up a flagstone path and then cut through a hole in a hedge. He turned a corner, and Adele found herself in a garden she couldn’t see from the street. No one would have known it existed. A quaint cottage adorned with fuchsia bushes sat on the other side of the garden. Mellow lamplight streamed through the windows and reflected off a koi pond in front of the veranda.

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