The Billionaire's Lockdown Baby by Rayner Holly

Author:Rayner, Holly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

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After we finished dinner—and our first bottle of wine—we moved into the living room, still talking about whether blue cheese actually counted as a blue food when it was obviously more green than blue.

Once we got into the living room, though, we realized that we were…

“Trapped together,” I said dramatically. “In this bungalow on the beach. No cable. No computers. No internet.”

“But,” Damon said, throwing open the cupboard under the TV. “Plenty of board games. I checked.”

I squinted at him, wondering if the wine had already gone to my head. “Is that part of your standard once-over when you get a new hotel room? Must Have Board Games?”

He snickered. “It is when I’ve just found out that we’re going to be stuck in said hotel room for an indefinite period of time without internet,” he replied. “I found them not long after you stormed out of the place, to later try to drown yourself in the ocean.”

I dropped onto the couch, thankful for the slight wine buzz, because it made what I was about to say a whole lot more… say-able.

“Have I thanked you yet for saving my life?”

I swear, my words were only a little slurred from the wine. My thought process only a little bit slowed by the amount I’d had to drink.

Though, I had to admit that the drinking was probably the only reason I was feeling brave enough to sit here with him, and even thank him. Or rather… it was the only thing that allowed me to drop my pride for long enough to realize that I needed to.

Before, when I was sober, I’d only seen how embarrassed I was to have been in a position where I required saving. Now I could see that if he hadn’t been there, I would have lasted for about five more minutes, max. And… there was a lot to be said for him having been there to keep me from sinking down to join all the other things the sea kept in Davy Jones’ locker.

He set his wine down on the coffee table, slid a game onto the surface next to it, and sat next to me. “You have not,” he said quietly. “But it’s also not necessary. Any decent human being would have done the same thing.”

“You’d be surprised,” I replied, my voice somehow weaker than it had been. Softer. Nearly a whisper. “As someone who spends an awful lot of time on the beach, I’ve seen a lot of people not bother to lift a finger to save someone in trouble.”

He reached up and brushed a lock of hair off my cheek, his eyes darker than I’d ever seen them, his face losing its usual humor and turning incredibly serious. “Then I guess most people aren’t watching someone so important that they can’t imagine living without them drown,” he whispered. “I guess most people aren’t so horrified at the idea of losing that person that they’re willing to do anything they have to, if it means saving them.

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