What Matters Most: The Billionaire Bargains, Book 2 by Erin Nicholas

Author:Erin Nicholas [Erin Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary;billionaires;wedding;runaway bride
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-12-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

They disconnected and Tony gave the people in the hallway outside the apartment a huge grin. “House-warming party this way.” He stepped back and gestured toward the apartment.

“Who are you?” one of the women with the aluminum-foil-covered plates asked.

“You’re the best man,” the other said.

“He’s the best man?” the kids’ mom asked. “The one that—”

“Broke up the wedding,” the guy with the goatee filled in.

Tony frowned. That wasn’t entirely accurate. And how had he not noticed this guy at the wedding?

Probably because he’d been too worried about breaking the wedding up.

Tony sighed. “Who’s coming in?”

Everyone stepped forward in unison.

“Where do you want the couch?”

“I hope you like oatmeal raisin.”

“Where’s Reese?”

“We made you macaroni and cheese.”

Everyone started talking at once and Tony gave a happy sigh. Chaos. He was good with chaos. He found that chaos worked for him.

“We’ll put the couch in front of the window, I love oatmeal raisin, Reese is stuck in Salt Lake City and will be here in a couple of hours and thank you for the mac and cheese.”

The movers headed downstairs, presumably to retrieve the couch, and everyone else reacted with either a suspicious frown or a bright grin.

Tony moved toward the fridge. Surely Reese had drinks even if she had cleaned most of the kitchen out.

“You flew home separately?” the kids’ mom asked.

“We did,” Tony said, turning with the two bottles of water that he’d found. “This is all I have.”

“I’ll go grab some stuff,” the guy with the goatee said.

“Oh, we have lemonade,” the older of the Werther girls said, grabbing her mother’s hand and starting for the door.

Tony pulled his phone out and hid it behind the bowl of mac and cheese while the two older women helped get the little kids onto chairs at the table. Along with the oatmeal and raisin cookies there were also frosted brownies, and they helped the kids each pick one and start eating.

He texted Reese Who’s the guy with the goatee?

“So you were the best man?” one of the women asked.

Her friend elbowed her. “Of course he was. I wouldn’t forget him.”

Tony gave her a wink. “Thanks. Yes, that was me.”

Reese’s response came in. Vincent. Neighbor down the hall. Is he there?

He answered with a simple yes.

“And you and Reese went to Salt Lake City?”

He laughed. “Vegas, actually.”

“Oh, I love Vegas,” one said with a twinkle in her eye.

“I’m Tony.” He offered his hand.

“Sylvia,” she said. Her nails were painted bright purple.

Sylvia. Purple fingernails. He could remember that.

He turned to the other woman.

“I’m Connie.” She didn’t shake his hand. She bit into a cookie, watching him carefully. “And now you’re living here?”

The moving men brought the couch through the door at that moment.

Tony smiled. “I am.”

The women were distracted by helping the men position the couch and Tony took the chance to text Reese again. The kids’ mom?

Holly. The response came back right away. Reese had clearly been sitting there waiting to hear more.

“That seems strange, you know,” Connie said. “Just moving in like this.

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