Accidentally His: A Country Billionaire Romance by Sienna Ciles

Author:Sienna Ciles [Ciles, Sienna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Romance
Publisher: Ellie Danes
Published: 2017-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Eve

I hummed my way down the sidewalk, toward the front door of the Cowboys n’ Cuts, and shoved aside the niggling thoughts that I’d gone too far with Joshua, that I’d pushed my luck and now I’d somehow pay the price.

God dammit, could I enjoy this? Couldn’t I enjoy anything? All the friends I’d had growing up had been uninhibited, reckless, regardless of what the consequences might be – why did I have to be the one who worried endlessly?

“Not today,” I muttered and shoved open the door. Today, I’d enjoy cooking with thoughts of Joshua swirling around my head, and the haze of pleasure from a morning spent feeding cows and giggling when he’d stepped in cow poop. Unheard of in NYC.

I entered the diner and frowned. Something felt off. Cassidy stood in front of the counter, a tray hugged to her chest, eyes darting from side-to-side.

Oh, god, what’d happened last night? I’d left her there with Roger. Had he hurt her?

“What’s wrong?” I hissed, and hurried to her side. “Are you okay? Did you get home safe?”

“You haven’t heard, have you?” Cassie searched my face. Behind her, customers ate their meals and chatted amiably. Bob, the morning chef, didn’t scream at me for being late when I wasn’t, for a change.

“Heard what?”

Cassidy exhaled heavily and hugged the tray tighter.

“Cassie? What’s wrong?”

“Lily sold the Cowboys n’ Cuts,” Cassidy replied.

“Are you kidding? She sold it? But Lily loves this diner.” It was part of the reason I actually enjoyed working here. The creative freedom coupled with the owner’s real passion for the restaurant made this place a joy.

“She was bought out,” Cassidy said. “It happened sometime over the weekend. Lily’s left town to set up a new restaurant in Heather’s Forge.”

“This doesn’t make any sense.” Sure, Lily had always talked about starting fresh and finding more customers for her business but this? I’d never pictured she’d just let the Cowboys n’ Cuts go, not for anything less than a small fortune.

Which meant that someone with a lot of money had bought her out.

“Oh, god, I don’t actually want to tell you the next part,” Cassidy said, and gulped. “But I have to because you’re going to find out in about five minutes when the new owner comes in.”

“Who is it?”

“Faith. Faith Stone bought the Cowboys n’ Cuts. No, that’s not right, her daddy bought it for her.” Cassie’s expression went from morose to downright miserable. “Faith is our new boss.”

A brick dropped in the pit of my stomach and crushed all those happy, swirly butterflies. This couldn’t be happening. The woman who was practically infatuated with the man I’d slept with last night was my new boss.

And she’d threatened me. And she hated my guts.

“This is unbelievable,” I whispered. It wasn’t so much the Joshua thing that was the problem. I instinctively knew that Faith wouldn’t be a good boss. She’d do everything she could to make working here uncomfortable for me, and it wasn’t as if I had that many options or any money to pay rent if she decided my time was up.

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