The Billionaire Bum by Samantha Blair

Author:Samantha Blair [Blair, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781461125228
Google: ooySZwEACAAJ
Amazon: 1461125227
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-04-24T21:00:00+00:00

He told me about the bet with his brother, and I had to fight to contain my laughter. It really was ridiculous. Who made that kind of a bet? Jason sounded like a character.

He broke from the story to get me another beer and to check on his other patrons. When he came back, he told me about sleeping in the airport, looking for work, his struggle to get a social security card, and his first night in the shelter.

He really had gone through a lot in the first two days, and I was a little surprised that he hadn’t given up. He told me about the thief and the split lip. Finally, an explanation for the fight and the smelly clothes! He could have gotten hurt, though; he had really taken this bet to the extreme.

Then he told me how he felt the first time that he saw me. “My whole life,” he stated,

“people have judged me because of my family, my money, and what they think they know about me. For once, I just wanted to know that I could make it on my own. I wanted to know that people could accept me for who I was and not what I had. When you looked at me, I felt like you saw me, and not the man that everyone else sees.”

I could feel the tears running down my cheeks.

I do see you, Jackson, and I want every part of you.

I tried not to interrupt. He needed to get this out, and I needed to hear it.

He told me about Jason and Ben.... and Nick. He also told me about the photo that he had of Nick and me, and I have to admit, I was a little freaked out by it. I was also relieved, in a way, to discover that I hadn’t really been alone. Nick Carver was seriously creepy.

Jackson told it all the way through until the present moment and then left me to my thoughts while he cleaned up the bar area and poured a couple of shots for the group on the other side of the room. I was grateful for our current location. He had given me a ton of information to process, and I wasn’t sure that I was ready to respond just yet. The bar was keeping him busy enough that we couldn’t really get into a heated discussion. Lexy was right about me; I overreacted to everything, but this was too important to me. I couldn’t let a rash decision on my part screw this up.

I sat and drank until the bar was ready to close. Jackson and I had agreed to go have pizza when his shift was over to finish the discussion.

Now that I’d gotten the time that I needed to process my thoughts, I had a lot to say. I wanted to tell him that he was an idiot for endangering himself with a stupid bet. If he ever put himself in harm’s way like that again, he was going to get more than a split lip from me.

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