Dumped By My EX, I Picked Up A Tycoon
eo's
I dearly hoped was ketchup-his small chest heaving. Whether fr
ecision. The click echoed through the silent s
e eyes-mirrors of my own-blazing with rebelli
ed dangerously calm. "Wi
gestured to the stone-fa
d like acid. Forty-three minutes where the unthinkable could hav
ing into the soft flesh. He remembered our last conversation-M
old racing injury still ached in damp weather-a permanent remi
tiny shoulders. The defensive movement speared through my c
my tone despite myself. "We'll d
t P
ow
ing into careful neutrality. Without another word, he turned s
gotten, their numbers swimming before my eyes. I could broker international deals before breakfast, could disman
The nanny position postin
the button with
rk last month-Why don't you have a mother like other children? I'd ruined
physiotherapy sessions, hostile takeovers, rebuilding the empire my father nearly destroyed.
he image loaded: Noah with her. Isabella. The woman
my son watched with rapt attention. Sunlight gilded her laughing face, and Noah-C
n, crushing the dangero
nto me when my ex-wife cleaned out our accounts forty-eight hours
ered, clutching her tablet like
Too sharp.
brow arched.
ed with military precision, ancient oaks casting long shadows over Noah's forgotten toy excavator by the
York, was nothing more than a slaughterhouse for physical needs. I never took the same
Bella, even the thought of anot
het
's leather. I couldn't l
for tomorrow
hovered. "Any...
e curdled on my tongue.
ave. The door clicked shut, le
smile as Isabella treated him like an ordinary boy. Not a legacy.
d together hard
. The racetrack crash that shattered my femur had been agony, but waking up alone in that sterile hospital room? That had been a
rned, t
ed me-Isabella's sunlit laughter, her careful fingers wiping Noah's face, the
vice onto the de
this inconvenient fascination. To prove-if only to myself-that no wo
er Noah requests permission for k
spine, the old defenses
oreign. "And inform him
The only one who'd eve
ld get close en
s vulne
tteo M
ad