Very Irresistible Playboy: Billionaire Bachelors: Book 1 by Lila Monroe

Author:Lila Monroe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lila Monroe Books

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Hallie

“Hallie? Are you OK?”

Max’s voice is panicked. I groan, and then stretch, testing my limbs, my neck. Aside from the pain where my seatbelt is cutting into my chest, I’m fine.

“It’s all good,” I manage. The only part out of whack is my heart thumping away at five times its usual speed.

I drag in a deep breath. “Did we miss the deer?”

“I think so.”

“Well, at least we don’t have to deal with Bambi’s untimely death on our conscience.” I start to laugh, as much out of shock as anything. “This day just wasn’t exciting enough. You had to throw a car crash into the mix.”

Max exhales, then chuckles. “Believe me, I’m done with excitement now. Give me a nice, boring, warm bed.”

“And a cup of cocoa,” I agree.

I ease open the door and step out. The whole front half of the car is tipped into the ditch, its rear up in the air. Max braces his hands against the hood and shoves, but I’m not at all surprised when it doesn’t budge. He pulls out his cellphone, then grimaces. “And of course there’s no reception in the backwoods of Virginia.”

I look around, but the road is empty. “So what do we do now?”

“Now, we walk,” Max sighs.

I glance up and down the dreary road. The rain has faded to a drizzle, but it’s still spitting on my face. “Walk to where?”

“There’s a town farther down this road. And maybe someone will come by who’ll let us hitch a ride.”

I look at him in his tux and me in my cutoffs, and have to laugh again. “Good thing we dressed for a hike.”

We grab our bags out of the back and set off down the road. I figure we’ll be walking for hours before someone comes along, but it’s only ten minutes before the sound of an engine arrives. “Score!” I exclaim, turning to look for the car.

Except it’s not a car. It’s a massive eighteen-wheeler truck, fender rusty and hood dented, rumbling up the road like a prowling monster.

Max waves it down, and the truck pulls to a stop beside us. The driver shoves the door open and narrows his eyes at us.

If this were a horror movie, this is the part where we’d get chopped up by the homicidal lumberjack.

“Need a ride?” the trucker-lumberjack asks in a friendly voice.

I think I might prefer walking, but Max apparently knows no fear. “That’d be great, if you’ve got room,” Max says. “Just into town. We had a little encounter with a deer.” He waves toward the crashed car.

The guy nods as if this is par for the course out here in the Virginia wilds. Which maybe it is. “Squeeze on in, then. It’s about half an hour down the road.”

To my relief, Max gets in first, so it won’t be me squished right up against the giant. As I clamber in after him, the trucker twists to offer his hand. “I’m Carl, by the way.”

His half-buttoned lumberjack shirt falls open over a T-shirt that’s .

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