The Rebellious One: A Billionaire Bride Pact Romance by Jeanette Lewis & Cami Checketts

Author:Jeanette Lewis & Cami Checketts [Lewis, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

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They left each other at the parking garage again, and Jordan called his attorney as soon as Holly was out of earshot.

“Chad, call it off,” he said as soon as the man answered.

“Pardon me? The sale?” Chad asked, obviously horrorstruck.

“Yes, the sale, the demolition plans, every single stinking thing,” Jordan growled. He paced around the truck, phone pressed to his ear so hard it hurt.

“Jordan, this represents years of work.” Chad adopted a measured, reasonable tone. “There have been countless hours devoted to this. If we stop everything now …”

“Yes, I know, all the work is wasted,” Jordan supplied. “No one knows that better than I do.”

“Is everything all right? What’s happened to trigger such an abrupt change?”

Holly friggin’ Clarke happened, that’s what.

“Nothing,” Jordan told his attorney. “I’ve just decided this project isn’t for me any longer.”

“But—”

“Just call it off, okay? Please?” Jordan said.

There was a long pause, then Chad sighed. “Okay, you’re the boss. Hang tight, I’ll get back to you in ten.”

Jordan waited much longer than ten minutes. When he got tired of pacing, he climbed back into his truck and locked the doors. He propped the phone on the dash, willing it to ring.

He thought of his father—all the years he’d spent watching Barry self-destruct, hearing him rant about the resort and the men who’d ruined his life. He remembered the vow he’d made to get even, how much he’d anticipated the moment when he could deliver justice in the form of two dozen bulldozers punching their way through everything Maurice Clarke and Edward Anderson held dear.

It all felt hollow now, a washed-out promise made by a petulant thirteen-year-old boy. Shame boiled through him. He’d been showing off today, building houses and preaching about leaky faucets, pretending to care about the “little people” while he was secretly masterminding the biggest sucker punch of them all. How had he never stopped to think about who else would be hurt by his actions?

He cared about Holly. A lot. But this wasn’t just about her. After being at Le Ciel for a week, he’d seen that it was so much more than the two smug idiots who sat in the main office. They might still be idiots, and probably always would be. But Le Ciel was the people who worked in the shops, pruned the rosebushes, set up pumpkins, cooked the food, and cleaned the rooms. It was more than a collection of quaint buildings; it was an entire community of people whose lives he would be destroying.

Finally, the call came and Jordan grabbed the phone off the dash. “Tell me.”

“Jordan, listen,” Chad began. Jordan groaned. No one ever started good news with a statement like that.

“We can still get out of it,” Chad continued, giving Jordan a brief flash of hope. But his hope evaporated with his attorney’s next words. “However, if we cancel, the debt will go to the next guys in line. I did a little digging; it’s Merchasalt.”

Jordan’s blood went cold. Merchasalt Properties was a group of foreign investors who targeted growing US cities.

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