Best Friends with the Billionaire_A Clean and Wholesome Romance by Liwen Ho

Author:Liwen Ho [Ho, Liwen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Laurene

Laurene was certain of one thing, that she’d messed up with Noah—again. Right when he’d been pouring out his heart to her, she’d gone and trampled on it. If only her old high school classmate hadn’t shown up when she did. She and Noah could be holding hands now, walking along the private beach behind Gabe’s villa, instead of being holed up in their respective rooms alone.

Noah had been upset since they climbed into her private jet to fly back to the Big Island. He had clammed up, keeping his answers formal and short. Even as he drove her back to the villa, he gripped the steering wheel tightly with his hands, his posture stiff and tense. Neither of them enjoyed that car ride home. He’d brought her bags up to the house and promptly bid her good night.

Being alone in her room was just about driving Laurene crazy. Desperate for someone to talk to, she made her way downstairs to the kitchen. The staff had retired for the night, but they had left dessert in the refrigerator. She grabbed a spoon from a drawer, took out a dish of chilled pineapple mousse topped with pistachios, and sat down on a bar stool.

The sound of footsteps approached, and she looked up to find her brother, Devon, in the entryway of the kitchen. He looked like he’d just emerged from a dip in the pool, wearing a fluffy white robe that barely covered half of his six-foot-three frame. With a playful grin on his chiseled face, he strode over and shook his head of chestnut brown hair in Laurene’s face. “I didn’t know you were still up.”

Laurene shrieked as cold water droplets fell on her. “Dev, stop! How is it that you just turned thirty, but you still act like a five-year-old?”

“Someone’s gotta keep you and Gabe on your toes.” He took a seat next to her and dipped his finger into her cream-colored dessert. With a swift motion, he scooped up some mousse and stuck it in his mouth. “What are you doing up at midnight? It’s three in the morning back in California. I expected you to be in bed hours ago, not out all day with your new boy toy,” he added with a smirk.

“Excuse me? Noah is not my boy toy.” Laurene blew at a strand of hair that had fallen out of her messy bun into her eyes. “He’s a really great guy. And now I’ve gone and blown things with him.”

He gave her a sympathetic look. “What happened?”

She rolled her eyes. Her younger brother was the last person she wanted to talk to about relationships, but all her girlfriends were fast asleep back home. “Well, I first let a saleswoman at Tiffany’s think he was my driver. Then I dissed him in front of your ex-girlfriend who we happened to bump into on Oahu.”

“Excuse me?”

“Kylie asked if we were together and I said no, even though just a moment earlier I had told him yes.

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