Summer with the Billionaire (Blue Bay Beach Reads Romance Book 3) by Ellie Hall

Author:Ellie Hall [Hall, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Billie

Billie hadn’t pulled an all-nighter since her father was sick, but it didn’t look like she was going to get any shut-eye after the long, strange—and okay, she’d admit it, at times wonderful—evening spent with Rhodes. Never mind the fact that the rock on her finger was like a lighthouse with its own beacon, blinking for her attention or to warn her she was in troubled waters.

His grandfather must’ve had old money for sure to have been able to afford a ring like that while he was serving in the war. Either that or the ocean returned a different treasure. In fact, the style of the band reminded her of a cresting wave the way it curved into the stone. She slipped it off and turned it over. On the backside were the initials B.R. She didn’t know Memaw’s first name but assumed it started with the letter B. Her husband was Rhodes Thorpe. Definitely sounded like old money.

Billie laid in bed, giving in to wakefulness as she reviewed the day from choking on a fly to Rhodes’s parting words. “The ring fits you perfectly.”

But what was imperfect was the situation.

They were rivals.

They were at odds.

They wanted vastly different things.

Oh, and never mind the fact that when he’d started tickling her, she discovered a pair of her underwear had stuck to the fabric of her athletic tank top like Velcro—probably from the laundry. How she’d run from her house along the beach then have a dreadful coughing fit with it remained attached was a mystery. Had he seen it? She only discovered it once inside the mansion, because of course, she’d show up at a mansion with a pair of underwear clinging to her shirt. Thankfully, it was clean and, well, small so she easily tucked it in the band of her pants to spare herself further embarrassment.

But it didn’t matter because her cheeks pretty much remained pink from when she and Rhodes had met on the beach to when they’d parted.

It wasn’t the way he looked in his running gear. Hot.

It wasn’t his voice. Mesmerizing.

It wasn’t his lips. Drool-worthy.

It wasn’t his eyes. Honest.

It was everything about him.

She’d seen different sides of Rhodes throughout the evening from how sweet he was with Memaw, to the staring contest, to the proposal, to dinner. Billie was torn, conflicted, confused. She couldn’t come up with one thing she didn’t love or hate about him. There was no middle road. There was no making sense of how quickly and completely she’d fallen in...

No. She wouldn’t think it. She wouldn’t admit it. But she sure did feel it. And it was never part of the plan. Whatever the plan was, other than run the restaurant, anything more with Rhodes went against the plan. She loved her freedom… and never saw herself as the sort to settle down. Love just complicated things and ultimately led to loss. She couldn’t bear that. Her father had barely survived it and considering he died of a heart condition, she was certain it was because his heart was broken.

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