The Billionaire's White Lie (Newport Billionaires, Book 2) by Amy DeLuca

Author:Amy DeLuca [DeLuca, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford South Press
Published: 2019-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Worthy of You

It took all the nerve he had, but Hunter willed himself to stay and look at her. And be honest at long last.

It was now or never if he ever wanted a chance with Kristal. He couldn’t let her run off to Atlanta without knowing the truth.

“In spite of the fact that you see me as a… ‘buddy’…” He scowled. “… or a ‘brother,’ I’ve always wanted you. You were all I could think about in high school. And then… after that night at the Charity Ball…”

“…when you kissed me by accident,” she prodded.

“Yeah, well, it might have been accidental on your part… but not on mine. I knew it was you. Which I know was messed up because you were with Harry at the time. I was just… caught off guard… and overwhelmed by what was happening.”

“I wasn’t really with Harry. Or rather, he wasn’t with me,” she clarified. “We broke up for good about five minutes after you left the room.”

“Because of me?”

“Because he’d moved on with another woman without bothering to mention it to me until that night. And for the record… I don’t see you as a brother. Or a buddy. I never have.” She gave him a smile of wonderment. “I can’t believe you felt that way about me in high school.”

He huffed a short breath. “I can’t believe you didn’t know.”

“How would I have known?” she asked. “You were so quiet. I wanted to get to know you. I tried. I gave you signals, but you would never even talk to me, much less ask me out.”

“You wanted me to ask you out?”

She nodded, smiling shyly. “I liked you. And I was always attracted to you.”

Hunter’s mouth fell open. “How is that possible?”

Kristal laughed. “Um, let’s see… smart, funny, good looking. What’s so hard to understand?”

“But we were from totally different classes. My family was poor. My father was… well, we were poor.”

She acted insulted that he could think so little of her character. “I don’t care about that. I never did. Why should that have mattered?”

Yeah right. Everybody cares about that.

“It mattered to me. It’s part of what drove me—to get a college scholarship, bust my butt in school, and then afterward, create the software, start my company, to work out and dress well and change my image from that skinny math geek I used to be. I wanted to be…”

He took a breath before admitting the truth. “… worthy of you.”

“Hunter,” Kristal whispered, stepping closer and slipping her small, soft hand into his.

“You’re giving me way too much credit. I was just as geeky as you were as a kid. I was just as insecure as you were—if I hadn’t been, I would have asked you out.”

He made a disbelieving pshaw noise, shaking his head. “You were the prettiest girl in school. You could have said the word and had a date anytime with any guy you wanted.”

She shook her head, looking mystified. “Well, that’s not true, but it’s beside the point.

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