The Bride's Billionaire by Sophia Summers

Author:Sophia Summers [Summers, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Kayla watched Tyler eat his meal and shook her head. Somehow, she would have to separate her business dealings from her feelings. But she didn’t know if she could. She took pride in a people-centered business. She took pride in knowing she could go to sleep in peace every night when thinking about the way she’d treated people. Maybe she could have gone further as a business owner if she’d been more ruthless, but she figured one of the many blessings of running her own business was the ability to make those decisions. It would be different if she were in management for someone else’s company and asked to do any number of things for them that she didn’t personally agree with. But as it was, she made the decisions and could run the business how she liked. Especially with her brother unable to assist.

The familiar heartache when she thought of him jarred her insides. His wife was having a bad month, and he was sticking closer to home. Kayla could never find the words to describe the heartache associated with depression. It was tough, plain and simple.

“So, Tyler Sperring, now that we aren’t doing first names only, tell me about yourself.”

“I’m an Iowa farm boy.”

She almost spit out her drink. “What?”

“True.” He shrugged in an adorable, self-deprecating way. She wanted to kiss his little smile.

“I grew up on a huge amount of acreage in Iowa, in a growing town of good people. They were successful farmers, and we created a community of family minded people; we put a ton of money into our local school district, built up a really successful football team, and the area started to grow. We created a town center, brought in the best shopping, made it a safe, convenient, family-oriented community, and soon the land was worth more than what we grew on it.”

She nodded. “Then why bottlers?”

“Well, this was all when I was young. By the time I’d graduated from college, we had only a smaller version of the original ranch, and I had an inheritance to invest.”

“You got your MBA?”

“Yes, and I studied supply chains in my undergraduate. I worked for a major soft drink company and thought I’d stay there, but soon realized that international bottlers were a great niche business, under-represented. Most of the time the big companies would go in and create their own bottlers first.”

She smiled, proud of him. “And Sperring Bottlers was born.” She searched his face, wanting to know everything about him. “And what do you do for fun?”

“This.”

“This?”

“You.” He chuckled. “You’re the most fun I’ve had in a long time. I’m a workaholic generally. I was hoping once I got South America going I could step back a little bit, enjoy life, maybe have a relationship…” His pointed gaze and the warmth in his expression sent happy shivers down her arms. “So tell me, Kayla of Finley Bottlers––by the way, can I just tell you how happy I was to discover you are the face behind Finley bottlers?” He leaned forward and took her hand in his.

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