A Tycoon's Rush_A Billionaire Sports Romance by Avery Laval

Author:Avery Laval [Laval, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Crow Books
Published: 2018-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

6

One Month Later

“I don't know how you did it,” Brad Bradley was barking through her laptop on videoconference. “But this kid is better after his so-called retirement than he was before. “The coffee people are hearing the buzz from the U.S. Olympic Committee and they want to renew his option before someone else gets a shot. Far be it from me to tell them he said no to all the other contenders already.”

Natalie laughed from her hotel room in Aspen. “Do you think the news needs to be delivered personally?” she asked with just a hint of feigned resistance. “I mean, the guy answers his phone again now, doesn't he?”

“Or his mom does. She's like his manager these days. I thought they'd had some kind of falling out, but apparently she's well on board now.”

“Glad to hear it,” said Natalie. A smile played across her face.

“Anyway, I think I can just deal with him directly, since the money's so good. You concentrate on that snowboarder you're scouting. She might be my first gold medal for slopestyle, you know.”

“Maybe,” Natalie said with a smile. And then she gasped. Kicked out her foot but missed her target.

“You okay over there? The hotel's not too bad a dump, is it?”

Natalie pressed her face into submission. “I think it's got a little pest problem,” she said, deadpan. “But I know I'm paying the price for expensing that room in Sestriere after getting trapped there by that blizzard. Whoever heard of a blizzard that late in the season, I want to know?”

Brad shrugged. “Out of your control, though next time try to find a joint with a few less stars, you hear?”

“Loud and clear. Oh! I better go. I’ve got something, um, pressing.”

“See you Monday. Take good care of my boarder, will you?”

“I will,” she said and disconnected as quickly as humanly possible.

“Who are you calling a little pest?” Charlie said, from beneath the covers where he'd been tormenting her for the entire call.

Natalie's face burst into a smile. “You are so inappropriate!” she told him.

“What can I do? I've only got you for the weekend.”

“And every other weekend when you fly to Vegas to visit on the sly,” she said with a smile. “But yeah, it's still not enough.”

“I wish you'd just quit that job and move in with me. So I could chain you to my bed and have you whenever I want.”

“Keep dreaming,” she told him, though his plan didn't sound awful. Still, she was getting ready, really ready, to take the big leap into her art for good. But the extra time working for the agency had bought her so many more hours of class, so many more photo ops for her portfolio, so many business trips to mountains that Charlie just happened to be training at to “recruit.”

“I'll keep dreaming, as long as you do too.”

“I promise. For now, let's just spend our time together living out some of my more adult dreams, what do you say?”

“I say, when do

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