Wrecked (Crystal Book Billionaires) by Jessica Blake

Author:Jessica Blake [Blake, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alpha billionaire, hot guys, bad boy, steamy sex, seduction rich man, north carolina, Secrets
Publisher: Jessica Blake
Published: 2016-06-14T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Luke

“Luke? Are you listening?”

I jerked to attention and turned my gaze to Brie. “Sorry. What?”

She stared back at me. “Is everything all right?”

“Yes. Thank you. Everything is fine.”

“You seem so distracted.”

“I’m fine,” I insisted. “What were you saying?”

She turned back to the papers on the desk. “I was just saying that Mr. Edwards moved. He went to Wilmington to live with his daughter. So he’s off the list.”

“Ah. That’s good.”

She handed me a sheet of paper.

“What’s this?”

“The addresses for today.”

I laughed. “Brie, I know all the addresses. Don’t worry. I’ve been doing this for long enough now.”

She gave me an odd look. “They’re not for you. They’re for Grace.”

A shiver went through me at the name.

“Grace?” I repeated, hating how much I loved to hear that one syllable.

“That’s right. Remember? You told me a couple weeks ago that when we got a new volunteer, you would teach them the drop-off route.”

A low hiss escaped from between my clenched teeth. “Right. That’s right.”

I’d been prepared — somewhat — to see Grace that morning, but I definitely wasn’t prepared to spend two hours driving around Crystal Brook with her in my car.

Her. Grace. In my car.

The edges of the paper crinkled as my hand tightened on it. “Are you sure you don’t want to go in my place?”

She narrowed her eyes. “Why would I do that?”

I leaned against the counter, trying to make my voice sound nonchalant. “I don’t know. I just thought it might be a nice change of pace for you.”

“What, lugging those boxes around in this heat?”

I pursed my lips. “When you put it that way, you make me sound like the bad guy here.”

She smiled and swatted my shoulder. “I’ll do it if you want me to…”

“No,” I said, straightening up. “You’re right. It’s not easy work. You stay here. People are expecting to see you when they stop in, anyway.”

The doorbell tinkled and in walked Grace. She was dressed the most casual I’d ever seen, with a black shirt with a peace sign on it and shorts so tiny they could have passed for a bathing suit bottom. A folded bandanna served as a headband to keep her hair back from her face.

I’d spent all of Sunday trying not to think of her and failing miserably. What happened between us on the porch had been baffling… even though I was the one to initiate.

Simply put, I didn’t know why I’d done what I’d done. Certainly I had a perverse need to break her down and make her admit just what her game was. And on top of that, I had a feverish desire to claim her body in a way only a caveman could.

My efforts at strutting had only resulted in failure though. She’d told me off and, man, had she done a good job at it. No, she wasn’t stupid, just like she said. In fact, I was starting to suspect Grace could be one of the cleverest people I’d ever met. She just knew the power in keeping her intelligence a secret.

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