Second Chance by Liliana Rhodes

Author:Liliana Rhodes [Rhodes, Liliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: billionaire romance, second chance romance
Publisher: Jaded Speck Publishing
Published: 2015-08-13T04:00:00+00:00

Present Day

At night, with the curtains drawn, every hotel room looked the same regardless of the location. They’re all boxes with furniture, no soul, no life. It was the little things that differentiated the places. The balcony view for example, or the listing of local restaurants. People thought traveling was fun and staying in hotels was great, but they’ve never done it like I have.

For fifteen years I had wandered, hotel to hotel, a vagabond billionaire. The only thing that distinguished each place were the people I helped along the way. I saw it all the time, people down on their luck, willing to do anything to make ends meet. Part of it might have been my own loneliness, but helping to get them back on their feet made me feel like maybe my roaming wasn’t for nothing.

I opened the drapes and let the sun spill into the main room. I had stayed at this hotel often and slept in this suite far too many times to count. It wasn’t home to me and for the first time in a long while, I thought I wanted one.

Home meant a lot of different things to me. Home was in North Carolina where I grew up. It was with my father and mother. More importantly, it was with Tara. I knew that deep in my heart, but I was still angry with myself for giving up.

Sliding my cell phone out of my pocket, I tapped on my father’s number. If I had to point to one good thing that happened in the past fifteen years, it was that my father and I became close. I wasn’t sure if it had anything to do with my mother leaving him, but with her gone, he became a new man.

“Mason, I was just thinking about you,” Dad said. “Where are you now?”

“I’m still in Canyon Cove.”

“I spoke to that new assistant of yours. She’s a bit of a spitfire, isn’t she?”

“Yes, she certainly has a mind of her own.”

“Any chance that you and she...?”

“No, Dad, it’s not like that at all.”

“No? Is she cute? You know I could use an assistant. If you know what I mean.”

“You are a dirty old man. You’re old enough to be her grandfather,” I said laughing.

“So? Look at Hugh Hefner.” He laughed until he began to wheeze softly. “Seriously though, all you do is work. It’s no wonder you never got married, you never had time to meet anyone. For a while I thought that girl who worked here was it. What was her name again?”

“Tara.”

“Yes, Tara. I really liked her. Shame you let her get away. What happened between the two of you?”

“I left for Germany.”

“And?” he asked.

“And nothing. I never came back.”

No matter how many times I admitted it, saying those words never got easier. I sat on the couch and opened my laptop. As it booted up, the property I took Tara to appeared on the screen. It was still something I was considering. Canyon Cove was the perfect place to move Abernathy Ranch to.

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