Winning Ben by JoMarie DeGioia

Author:JoMarie DeGioia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: family saga, contemporary romantic comedy, opposites attract romance, romance family series, nature and wildlife romance, vacation contemporary romance, wealthy man romance fiction
Publisher: JoMarie DeGioia

Chapter 12

Ben could hardly wait the hour until the end of the business day. He’d nearly leapt on Tammy when she’d breathlessly begged him for…something. He had to tread carefully, though. She was so afraid of any kind of commitment, not that he was offering her anything more than a good time while he was in Cypress.

He looked over the presentation he was putting together for the new project and frowned. He could be in Cypress for some time. Was it really fair to use their attraction for the unforeseeable future?

“Yes, damn it.” He pushed away from his desk. “She wants me and I sure as hell want her.”

It had to be tonight. Tomorrow was Ty’s bachelor party and then the wedding would take up most of the weekend. He’d take Tammy to dinner and then back to his room. That was the civilized thing to do. It was completely beside the point that he wanted to grab her and take her any way he could, as many times as he could manage without killing himself.

Mentally giving himself a shake, he returned his attention to the presentation. It wasn’t a formal one, but he was meeting with the director of the Institute next week and wanted to have something to show him. After reading through the brochures Jessie had given him, he was a little more familiar with the Institute’s slant. There was still the bottom line to consider, and working in the Sales Center would help him keep a check on the pulse of the typical visitor. Prospective residents were his target. Not Chapman’s investors, despite Bill’s insistence to the contrary. He’d brushed off his father’s intrusive questions in his phone call just yesterday.

He’d already begun preliminary drawings of several homes. One was a bungalow style a bit larger than the one Claire and Jake lived in. It was his favorite, since a lot of older homes in Santa Cruz were in the Craftsman style as well. He would design several large homes, too. This particular project would have lots and homes of varying sizes to accommodate a variety of homebuyers who had their eyes on the environment.

He stood and crossed to the draft table again. The bungalow design really called to him. Going back as far as he could remember, he’d lived in one with his mother until he’d finished his undergrad. Bill had bought the house and put money toward any renovations, which Ben had done himself. He put a lot of his sweat and heart into that house, but after his mother died he couldn’t bear the thought of moving back in there. Instead, he’d kept to the apartment closer to Monterey Bay that he’d taken when he’d started his Master’s years earlier. That was, until Bill contacted him with more than a job offer. He dumped the apartment and now he had no ties left in California.

Tracing the lines he’d put to paper, the organic way he preferred to start a project, he could almost imagine the family that would reside there.

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