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SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
Each billionaire fairytale book delivers clean, suspenseful romance with slow-burn chemistry and powerful men facing the fallout of their pasts.
As secrets surface and danger looms, love may be the one thing that can save them . . . or destroy everything.
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“Hey, Mom,” Adrian said in response.
He moved to stand by my side and took me completely by surprise by sliding his hand around my waist, luring me in close.
Fireworks erupted through my entire frame. I peered at him, but he kept his smile directed toward his mother.
Something was going on here—I got the feeling he was trying to prove something by claiming me the way he just did. Unless he thought by me accepting his offer of a date that meant he thought we were now date-ing?
The catnip of his scent had its usual effect on me, and it took extraordinary effort not to turn my head, lean over, and breathe him in. Instead, I remained rigid at his side and chose not to pry myself from his possessive grasp.
“Mom, this is the woman I told you about. Goldie, honey, this is Sylvia Bear, my mom.”
My stomach cinched. He’d told his mother about me? Why?
And—honey?
Sudden paranoia struck. Oh my goodness, had he told her that I’d barged into their cabin? That I’d shattered her vase?
Logic won out. If that was the case, he wouldn’t have reeled me to his side and dominated my nervous system. But why had he called me honey?
As far as pet names went, there were better ones out there. Still, it was odd, considering how we were not anywhere near close enough to call one another by pet names.
“Pleasure to meet you,” Sylvia said, though the words were nicer than her delivery of them.
She and Adrian exchanged a few more words, but I couldn’t focus on any of them, not with the way his mother continued to glare at me with all the pleasantness of a threatened raccoon.
Maybe Aunt Bethany was home by now. If only she’d given me her number. I was ten seconds away from withdrawing when Mrs. Bear bid her goodbyes and left Adrian and me alone on the porch.
“What was that?” I asked, pulling away.
Adrian didn’t have a concept of personal space because he guided me away from the door and kept his arms around my waist. Though I wanted to take his full-fledged permission to rest my hands on his shoulders and soak in every stunning sensation, I retreated again.
“My mom is under the impression I should marry this certain girl I used to date. She kept hounding me to call and ask Danica to the fundraiser tonight. I told her I was going with you.”
“Before you asked me?”
“Since my mom can’t believe I’m picking an outsider over Danica, I…” He angled his head. “I may have given her the impression that you and I didn’t just barely meet.”
“You what?”
Forget his attractive muscles. I needed a clear head for this conversation.
“I wanted to talk to you about it first, though. I was going to call you the minute I got here, but I ran into my friends and—”
“Seems a little late for that. You called me honey.”
“I’m sorry,” he said. ‘I know, I should have said something sooner. I just didn’t get the chance to when I talked to her earlier. I couldn’t tell her I caught you sleeping in our fishing cabin, and in the moment, I wasn’t sure what else to do. I didn’t really think things through.”
I ducked my head. He had a point there. He’d been gracious enough not to press charges, and he’d helped me find my way into town. If it hadn’t been for me, he wouldn’t have been put in the situation in the first place.
“How about it?” he asked, resting a hand on the porch railing and looking like a walking daydream. “Want to be my fake girlfriend while you’re in town? At least until either you or I go back home?”
Find out what happens next in GOLDIE AND THE BILLIONAIRE BEAR!!
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Continue reading the Once Upon a Billionaire Series if you like:
- Protective Heroes
- Fairytale Retellings
- Dark Secrets
- Mystery and Suspense
- Sizzle Without Spice
- Fake Marriage
- Sacrificing Everything for Love
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Chapter One Look Inside
Chapter One Look Inside
Goldie and the Billionaire Bear
Chapter One
Adrian
Maybe if I hadn’t been so tired, I would have caught the signs before it was too late.
I would have turned on a light, for one thing. Or kept my shirt on. I would have seen her bag by the door and the bowl of half-eaten oatmeal on the table.
I would have seen her in the bed before I nearly laid right on top of her.
But then, I would never have been in a stand-off with a beautiful blonde stranger in my cabin while she held my mom’s cowboy figurine in my direction like she was going to defend herself with it should the need arise.
“Who are you?” she demanded.
Lifting my hands in surrender, I hesitated. I wasn’t exactly at my best. I needed to clear my head before this went any further.
It was time to press pause and back things up a bit.
~Fifteen Minutes Earlier~
The farther I drove, the deeper my dread grew.
My family’s cabin was the last place I wanted to be, but after hanging out with the guys, Mom had sprung her nasty little surprise on me—and it got to me.
I had to get out of there. To think. To search.
Bad memories, awkward conversations, and experiences I’d suppressed for years—they were all rearing their annoying heads at the sight of every new tree.
To anyone else, I was sure the view here was spectacular. All I saw were the arguments and disappointments that made me leave in the first place.
All the reasons I should have known better than to expect any kind of inheritance after Dad’s passing.
So to find out that inheritance had actually been granted—but that it was missing?
Yeah. I wasn’t about to wait around back at the ranch.
How could I sleep and wait until morning to look for it? I knew the answer; I wouldn’t have been able to rest. Not until I got to the bottom of this.
Dad had rarely reached out to me in any way other than in admonishment. Though I knew better, part of me hoped that this lockbox he’d bequeathed to me might actually be different. Part of me hoped that it might hold something in it that could help me see him in a different light.
I mean, he was gone now. I didn’t want to keep resenting him.
A haze shrouded over my mind. Weariness trickled from the top of my skull, along my forehead, and down into my eyes, which began to droop.
I gripped the steering wheel and shook myself. The smartness of my spontaneous action was fading—fast.
It was nearly midnight, and I was tired.
I was tempted to turn back, catch a few Zs, and come again in the morning when it made more sense—when I was in a better mental state rather than braving the winding mountain roads half asleep. But I’d already come this far. In fact, I was fairly certain I’d be at the cabin within minutes.
Whether it was the middle of the night or not, I didn’t need any kind of direction to tell me I was almost there. It’d been years since I’d been to the cabin, but the way there was instinctive. The truth was, I could probably find it in my sleep.
Not that I wanted to test that theory. This car was new.
The road widened momentarily. A single cab, white Toyota pickup was pulled off to the side. The sight was just what I needed. My curiosity blinked, rousing me enough to keep me awake. The truck was abandoned from the look of things, unless someone was having car trouble.
I pulled to a stop beside the pickup and glanced around. No one was in sight. The hood wasn’t gaped open. Maybe someone had picked up whoever this person was, and they’d be coming back for the vehicle in the morning.
This particular route was popular with off-roaders and mountain bikers. If it wasn’t the middle of the night, I would have thought they’d hauled their bikes from the truck bed and were out enjoying the scenery. Maybe they were camping.
Whatever the case, I shrugged it off and pulled back onto the road until I saw the dirt road in the trees, so often missed by passersby. It was a good thing I’d seen it—the exhaustion wearing on my eyes was getting heavier.
The road turned from pavement to dirt. I braced myself through the bumpy jaunt that led to my least favorite place in the world.
I shook my head a few more times to remain coherent enough to make it to the cabin’s driveway. Though the road leading there wasn’t paved, the driveway was.
The Hummer I’d bought when I’d come back for the funeral took to the road better than I expected. An SUV wasn’t typically the kind of car I drove—I tended to prefer something a little sportier—but its military style was dope. I liked its massive storage and comfortable driver’s seat too.
Lofty and solemn, the cabin came into view through a break in the trees. The exposed logs were stacked perfectly. Though right now they were shadowed, I knew come morning they would glow in the sunlight.
Something hitched in my chest, but I did my best to disregard it. It was the same indignant, stubborn resentment I’d experienced every time I’d come here.
You’d think with Dad gone now, the bitter feelings would leave too. But no, they were still as insistent as ever.
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