The Big, Bad Billionaire by Ashenden Jackie

Author:Ashenden, Jackie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Rafe was in his father’s massive office—or rather his massive office—on the hundredth floor of DS Tower, having a meeting with a less-than-impressed Lorenzo and their very grumpy half brother, Nero.

They were discussing the management structure of the company now that their father had stepped down. All three men had very different ideas about how it should be done, and none of them were remotely interested in agreeing with one another.

It was making for a rather difficult discussion.

Rafe didn’t want to start laying down the law quite yet, not until he was more firmly in command of the company, but given both brothers’ intransigence, it was looking like that was the only way forward.

They were, of course, starting to get an inkling that he wasn’t simply their father’s puppet and never had been—no matter how it looked on the outside—but he wasn’t ready for them to to know the full extent of his manipulations quite yet. Which meant he had to take the softly, softly approach.

Sadly, it wasn’t proving to be at all successful, not up against Nero’s impatience and his oldest brother’s less-than-tolerant approach.

The text from Ella that popped up on his phone was just the diversion he needed.

When he read it, all thoughts of his company, not to mention his brothers, went out of his head entirely, and he was getting up from the meeting table and striding to the windows, hitting Ella’s number to call her.

The call connected but he didn’t wait for her to speak. “Don’t move. I’m coming.” Disconnecting Ella, he put another call through to one of his personal assistants requesting some information, texted Clive to get his car ready, then he turned and headed straight for the door, ignoring the looks of surprise his brothers sent him.

“Where the hell are you going?” Nero growled.

“To see a man about a dog,” Rafe replied and strode out without another word.

Clive was right on time, the limo already at the curb by the time he got out of the building, his personal assistant texting him the address of the hospital Aurora was at before he’d even gotten into the car.

Which was as it should be. When he’d said it was urgent, he’d meant it was urgent.

Ella had contacted him. Ella had contacted him.

It was the very first time she’d initiated things and sure, it had only been a text telling him that her grandmother was sick and in the hospital, but it was still contact. She didn’t have to do that, she could have let him find out through other means. But she hadn’t. She’d reached out to him and, even though it wasn’t much, he was taking it.

He wanted to help her. He wanted to prove to her that she could trust him, and this was his opportunity.

That’s cold.

So? He didn’t know Aurora Hart. In fact, she was the mother of the man who’d kept Ella away from him, so why he should feel any sympathy for her he had no idea. Anyway, besides all of that, he was a cold man.

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