The Billionaire Game 3 by Monroe Lila

Author:Monroe, Lila [Monroe, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
Publisher: Supernova Publishing
Published: 2015-05-16T07:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

“Katherine! Katherine! Brian, give Katherine a pat there and ask her to pass the potatoes, she’s off in Cloud Cuckoo Land again.”

“Sorry, Mom,” I said, shaking myself out of my reverie. “I’ve got a lot on my mind.”

Even as the words were leaving my mouth, my thoughts were leaving the conversation and heading back to the incredible offer Asher had told me about from Slips ‘N More. I was still mulling it over.

I couldn’t believe it. One million dollars was still an insanely unreal amount of money to me; I had to keep pinching my arm to reassure myself that it wasn’t all a dream. Maybe Asher was used to this kind of thing—hell, Asher probably spent a cool million every morning before breakfast—but a few months ago I was working at a reception desk for barely fifteen bucks an hour, and a benefits package that didn’t even include dental.

One million dollars.

“Coral, this asparagus. Brilliant. Bacon sauce, is it?”

“Vegan bacon, ma’am, so glad you like.”

Coral was my brother Brian’s girlfriend, and had been trying for three years to convert my family to veganism. So far she’d only managed it on Brian (not realizing he still ate fast food burgers whenever he was out of her sight), but hope sprang eternal, unfortunately.

I took a bite of the asparagus and almost choked. No way in hell that tasted even remotely like bacon.

“Are you all right, Kate?” Coral asked, her eyes just daring me to insult her precious cooking.

“Fine,” I said shortly. “Something just disagreed with me, is all. Maybe the pepper.”

“Actually, did you have meat for lunch?” Coral asked, her eyes now gleaming with evangelical fervor. “Because did you know that the human stomach is actually not designed to digest beef? It can cause a lot of problems. That’s probably why you have so much trouble losing weight, and why you’re always so irritable.” She smiled sweetly.

“You don’t say,” I said, and promptly tuned out the rest of her following speech in favor of happier thoughts. Like real bacon, and impromptu dressing room sex, and money. Yes, money. Big fat wads of it. One million literal dollars of it, just waiting for me to sign the dotted line and collect it. I let the ka-chings rattle around my brain, trying to block out the inappropriate thoughts I was having about my business partner. It was almost working.

Today Slips ‘N More had sent me a lavish gift basket, full of designer jewelry, chocolate-dipped strawberries, and a bottle of champagne I was pretty sure cost more than my apartment. Scratch that, I was pretty sure it cost more than my whole apartment building.

And that was just the gift basket they’d sent today. They’d been sending me a different one every day of the week.

They did seem to actually want me pretty badly. Did that mean they’d keep me on as a consultant, respect my creative vision once they had me? Or did it just mean they thought I was an easy mark who’d be

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