Bait: Alpha Billionaire Romance Boxed Set by Colleen Charles

Author:Colleen Charles [Charles, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Charlie

“Charlie, there’s someone here to see you,” Dad yelled from the living room.

Confusion mingled with those nuclear accident sized butterflies in my belly, to form a special brand of nausea. I couldn’t take any more surprises.

“Charlie!” he raised his voice in his familiar southern drawl. “Get a move on, darlin’, we don’t keep visitors waiting.”

“I’m coming, Dad,” I replied. I straightened my old t-shirt and flipped my long hair back, then strode to my bedroom door and opened it.

Dad’s house was tiny. He had a living room and adjoined kitchen, two rooms, and one bathroom with a toilet and a shower in a rough neighborhood. That was it. And now thanks to me, he’d probably never have anything better.

I strode out of my room and into the living room. I lost my breath after the second step.

Standing between the threadbare sofa and the front door, smiling at my father, was none other than the star of my tortured musings every moment of every day since I’d last seen him. It was one of his charming, billionaire smiles and it rolled off dad like water off a duck’s back.

Frank de Monaco wasn’t a man easily charmed. With his Georgia roots, he usually did the charming.

Unlike me, apparently. Every southern belle east of the Mason-Dixon Line probably wanted to excommunicate me from the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Each conflicted, painful emotion that had run through my mind before making the decision to leave Nolan crashed back like surf pummeling a rocky shoreline. He was here. He was in my dad’s living room.

Oh, God. I didn’t think I could stay standing. I didn’t think I could speak.

Even breathe.

“There you are,” my dad said gruffly, eyeing me with worry. “Someone’s here to see you.”

“Charlie,” Nolan murmured at the exact same moment. He looked as tortured as I felt. But that couldn’t be possible. He was Nolan Banks. Like some nerdy, Game of Thrones watching math-geek could upset him. Not in a million years. Why hadn’t he moved on? Fired up the little black book to feed on a society piranha with fangs as big as his mother’s?

My name fell again on a whisper from his lips and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I caved.

I fell.

“I take it you’ve been introduced?” I said, wearing bravado like a superhero cape. My voice only wavered on one syllable. Rasping in a ragged breath, I puffed up my chest and ran a finger through my snarled curls. I couldn’t let him know that I missed him. A constant, aching Nolan-shaped hole in my heart.

“No,” both men said in unison, eyeing each other. I fully expected my dad to start pawing his booted toe into the green shag carpet like a bull about to charge.

“Dad, this is Nolan Banks, my ex, uh, my ex-boss. Nolan, this is my father, Frank de Monaco.” I walked to my father’s side on legs that had been fashioned out of jelly. My hand snaked out to settle on

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