Show Me the Money: An Enemies-to-Lovers Romance (Money Hungry Book 2) by Sloane West

Author:Sloane West [West, Sloane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

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Jen was so shell-shocked that she didn’t know whether to be furious or heartbroken, so she settled on numb.

Behind her, he cursed again. “Jen, wait.”

Ahead, the coffee shop’s door opened, and a group of laughing women walked in, clogging the doorway and momentarily blocking Jen’s escape.

“Dammit,” she whispered, feeling trapped. She didn’t want to hear what he had to say. His silence had been talk enough. She already knew all she needed to know. With her escape thwarted, she instead turned left and hurried to the ladies’ room, ducking inside before he could catch up. He wouldn’t follow her in, and it would at least give her a moment to calm down before she was forced to emerge. Or maybe there would be a window she could climb out. It would be less humiliating than facing him.

Inside, she was overwhelmingly relieved that the three-stall bathroom was empty. Why was she so upset anyway? So she’d developed a crush on her sponsor. They weren’t a couple. They never had been. Their relationship was mutually beneficial. Nothing more. It shouldn’t matter to her that he didn’t want her to meet his daughter. Truth be told, if Jen had a daughter, she might not want recovering addicts meeting her, either. Still, it had been his idea in the first place. Regardless, it was her own fault for thinking of him as something other than her sponsor. Because that’s all he was, and they made more of them every day.

Then why did the thought of losing him make her feel so terrible?

She stared at her wind-blown blonde hair and angry green eyes in the mirror. She looked like an old woman. Like a woman who needed a drink, and that terrified her. She straightened. She was not that person anymore. She was strong, dammit, and she had come too far to turn back now just because Ashley Danvers had hurt her heart. The urge to self-medicate clawed its way up her throat, and she swallowed it down, holding on instead to her quavering determination to survive.

Just then, the ladies’ room door burst open, and she turned, freezing. Ash stood in the doorway, looking like a man about to do something reckless. The sight mesmerized her. For the first time since they’d re-met, his control was gone.

“Dammit, Jen,” he growled. “Would you let me talk?”

For a moment, she was too stunned to speak. Never in a million years had she expected Mr. Uptight to storm into a women’s restroom after her. “What are you doing in here?”

He let the door close behind him and walked over to her as if he wasn’t at all bothered by his surroundings. “Why do you always jump to insane conclusions without letting people explain?”

“No need to explain,” she said, growing angry all over again. “Your eyes did all the talking.”

“Then they must have lied,” he growled. “Because this has nothing to do with me not wanting you to meet Sara.”

A strange mix of hope and frustration fluttered inside Jen. “So they lied,” she said, heading for the exit.

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