The Rebel Billionaire (Scandals of the Bad Boy Billionaires Book 5) by Ivy Layne

Author:Ivy Layne [Layne, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ginger Quill Press, LLC
Published: 2017-03-21T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

LUCAS

I was sucked into work, eyes focused on my laptop as I burrowed my way into line after line of code for a client. Beside me, my phone beeped an alarm. The security system. Not Charlie's, mine.

Proximity alert on the driveway.

I tapped the app on my phone and watched Aiden Winters unfold himself from what I knew was a very expensive and almost impossible to get Aston Martin. Damn, that was a gorgeous car. One of the perks of being a billionaire.

Didn't bother me. I wasn't a billionaire, but I had enough money socked away to buy my own Aston Martin if I really wanted one. Someday, maybe. For now, my capital and my attention were on building my business and playing around with rehabbing houses. An expensive luxury car didn't fit in.

With a sigh of annoyance, I logged out of my laptop and closed it. This particular client wasn't in a rush, but the job was taking longer than I'd estimated since Charlie's life had intersected with my own.

I didn't have to guess why Aiden Winters was here. After William Davis's visit, I'd been expecting Aiden to stop by. If he thought he was going to roll in here and scare me off Charlie, he was very much mistaken.

Charlie was mine for as long as she wanted to be, as long as this thing between us stayed good, and nothing her brother had to say would change that. I knew guys like Aiden Winters. Rich, entitled, used to thinking the world existed to serve them.

When you work in my business, you run into more than your share of men like him. I let him ring the doorbell and took my time answering it. When I swung the door open, I was taken aback by how much he reminded me of Charlie.

In pictures, they didn't look that much alike. Her blue eyes were so striking, they overshadowed the features she shared with Aiden. It was disconcerting to see her lower lip and those defined cheekbones in a male face.

Aiden met my eyes with a direct stare and said, "Lucas Jackson?"

I nodded, affirming his guess.

"May I come in? We have things to talk about."

I stepped back, holding the door open. "Charlie is at Winters House," I said. I'd dropped her off myself not more than an hour before.

"I know," Aiden said with a quirk of his lips that was almost a smile. "She's playing with Maggie's dog. I told her I would do it, but she said I wouldn't spend enough time letting him drool all over me. She was probably right. You drove her?"

"I did," I said. It might be overkill, but I was serious about not leaving her on her own. She was behind a gate at Winters House, protected by multiple layers of security. I still didn't like her being on the other side of town without me.

Echoing my thoughts, Aiden said, "I'm surprised you let her out of your sight."

So was I.

Which was a problem. It was supposed to be easy to let go of Charlie.

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