Chapter 24 #2
“I had a feeling you were acting crazy and weird then.” I giggle. “I didn’t know it was because you loved me and you wanted to be with me.”
“Sure you didn’t.”
“I mean, I hoped,” I say as I cup the side of his face.
“I feel so lucky to be with you. You didn’t answer my question about the house, by the way, Juniper.”
“Let’s just wait. I’m happy to move in here first. We can evaluate in a year or so.”
“That works for me.” He nods. “And I have one last surprise for you.”
“You do?”
“I wrote a romance book.”
“You what?”
“Okay, let me correct that. I started a romance book.”
“You started a romance book.”
“Yeah.” He grins. “It’s about a very beautiful girl, a brunette with brown eyes.
Her name’s Juniper, and she lives in Coconut Beach.
There’s a very handsome vet who’s absolutely obsessed with her, and he wants to love her and marry her and do all sorts of wicked things with her, but she doesn’t even know he exists. ”
“Really? That sounds like a very familiar story.”
“Well, you know, I aim to please.” He pulls me into his arms. “And right now, I want to please you very, very much.” He strokes the side of my face. “In fact, it is my lifelong goal to make you happy.”
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Blurb
Wanted: One hot sexy billionaire with a heart of gold and a wallet full of cash.
Not Wanted: One grumpy single dad who keeps asking me to babysit for free.
Sage Meadows and her sister moved to Billionaire Valley, the richest zip code in America, to marry handsome billionaires. Growing up poor in an unstable household will make a girl think that money can create a real home and the security she’s always craved.
But reality soon hits when they find themselves still broke, still single, and with no options. She ends up working at a struggling waterfront cafe by day and spending her evenings trying to infiltrate Billionaire Valley’s elite social circles.
The last man that she should be falling for is her grumpy boss, Dalton Leone, who’s raising the young boy he adopted.
Before long, she finds herself helping care for the boy while Dalton disappears every night…
claiming he’s working another job to keep the cafe afloat.
He has no clue why she’s really in town and neither does her sister.
Then Sage discovers that Dalton has a huge secret.
He’s the billionaire she’s been searching for all along.
But his wealth isn’t the only thing he’s hiding.
Just like her, he’s pretending to be someone he’s not.
Now she’s left wondering whether to continue chasing her fairy-tale ending or risk everything on the billionaire who’s been bluffing beside her all along.
Teaser From Chapter One of The Bluffing Game
Sage
Sometimes in life you just have to pack up your bags and move to the richest city in the country. I mean if your goal is to marry a well-off, handsome, and intelligent man. And I was actually quite simple in my wants; I only needed two of those qualities.
If a random stranger heard that my sister and I had just moved to Santa Capinari, also known as Billionaire’s Valley to meet rich men, they would call us gold diggers, but the fact of the matter is that we’re not.
At least not in the narrowest terms of the word.
We were definitely diggers in some capacity, but we didn’t necessarily seek gold, we would have been okay with platinum or silver as well.
Though I’d be lying if I said we’d be okay with copper pennies.
Who spends their time digging for pennies?
So yeah, maybe, at first appearance, it would seem that my sister and I are gold diggers, but the reality of the fact is far more complicated than that.
We didn’t want husbands just to be married.
Nor did we want them just to have money.
We could make our own money. We wanted husbands and money and security because of the illusion that we’d grown up with our entire lives.
We’d spent our entire lives believing those things brought happiness and at the end of the day, what we craved most from life was to be happy.
“Do you think we should go for multi-billionaires or is one billion net worth enough?” My sister and best friend Rosie asks as we drive our rented Honda along the pacific coast highway, headed towards our newly rented studio apartment.
“I think anything over 6 zeroes is enough.” I keep my eyes ahead of me and focused on the road because it’s super curvy and the strong wind makes me nervous that I cold drive over the edge and have us facedown in the pacific ocean. “It’s beautiful here, isn’t it?”
“It’s amazing.” Rosie’s voice sounds ethereal as she stares at the vibrant blue water to the left of us.The fact that the cliffs are tall, dramatic and statuesque just increases the beauty of our scenery. “I feel like I’m in a painting or a movie.”
“Tell me about it. Maybe this will be our final home.” I say hopefully and she murmurs her agreement.
We don’t say anything else because there’s an unspoken deal between us.
We both know that if we start to get too excited about some place being permanent, we will tempt fate against us.
And the last thing I need is for the universe to once again displace me.
“I sure hope so,” Rosie taps her fingertips against her thigh and leans back in the chair. “I hope that Billionaire’s Valley is like fairytale land to us, where magic is made and dreams come true.”
“Do dreams really come true in fairytales though?” I ask and quickly turn down our music as the GPS commands me to slow down and be prepared to exit. My heart races as I see the signs signaling that we’re near our new home.