The Billionaire's Fake Wife

ery fact that had put him in this situatio

d letting fate take care of his love life, but, his

sheep station back in New Zealand rather than to transfer it into Roland's ownersh

but Roland had said that rather than money he wanted the farm. His father had agreed, but that ag

land goodness only knew he had little enough tim

couldn't bear to see it carved up into multiple parcels of "life

alierly cast off something that had been a pa

rgaining chip showed how very determined

d. That and the fact that both his parents and his brothers couldn't seem to understand that while love and

ing. Blake can't be behind this. It's just not like him. Besides, he only holds

nd's digging had discovered that Blake had a rock

because of his age at the time, money had a conv

enager could easily have escalated over the

ite everythin

he hated to shatter her illusions, but the truth was there in t

higher clearan

I did, I would never share that inform

t your brother is most definitely involved. All our evide

ted ove

e? What

d to go right so he needed to choo

and ensure news of his activity won't get out, nor will it be permane

omentary pang of regret that he had to manipul

o? Seriously, we'll do anything t

, although he'll definitely have to clean up h

on't und

one hand, I need someone with your acumen and your experience to be my rig

-you, specifically-to

g to her feet, her shock clearly

heard

t ridiculous. We don't even know one ano

oom in a few long strides, coming

sual creature he knew lingered under her proper exterior, wafted on the air between them

enligh

e short distance between her lips and his. The instant his mouth to

r taste invaded his senses and held him in her thrall. It was all he could do not to lift his hand

wrenched his lips from hers in a fo

lieve we could be quite-" he paused a

him. She shook from head to toe. Desi

g the play of emoti

r head vehemently.

There was more to thi

leave me n

ice? To

r brother t

he knew she was d

her chest as the finality of her boss wo

gotiation," he said smoothly, as if

axis. Blake had been on the straight and narrow for years. The trouble he'd gotten into as a teen now well a

n't do this to me-t

took a risk when he started playing in the big boy's league. Embezzlement is never a good look on a resume

words as quickly as she'd processed the informatio

t judge he'd stood before in court had made it quite clear that he was being given one final opportunity to cle

well that Blake be stopped now. But, in her heart

ff her words before she gave Mr. Warner a

hock, and why wouldn't it? I understand you campaigned quite h

e linked to the fraudulent activity. As innocent as she knew she was, mud had

olved, especially not

words that would set Roland warner straight on exact

the local police station to collect him after he'd been picked up for one misdemeanor or another, in the first couple of years after their parents died. But t