Waking Up with a Billionaire (The Overnight Billionaires Book 3) (28 page)

He should be elated. This was what he’d dreamed of, wasn’t it? To make his first million before he turned thirty-five? And even with Francesca’s backing, it was unlikely that he would achieve the goal in three years. Now fifty million had landed on his doorstep. It was just unfortunate that the windfall had come from the same family he wanted nothing from.

He glanced at the contracts. “I’ll need to read through it and then talk to my brothers before we sign anything.”

She nodded and got up, picking up her glass of tea. “I’ll be on the front porch.” She paused on her way out the door and looked at Deacon. “Do you think I could use your cell phone? Mine got wet and isn’t working.”

Deacon took his phone from his pocket, swiped the touch screen, and tapped in his passcode before handing it to her. Then, because he couldn’t seem to help himself, he held open the screen door. She stopped on her way out. So close that he could smell the scent of his shampoo that she’d used and see the splash of gold that lined the pupils of her green eyes.

“I know you don’t like me, Deacon,” she said, “but please don’t let that keep you from getting money you obviously need.”

The word
need
annoyed the hell out of him. He didn’t
need
anything from Olivia. But he kept his cool and waited for her to walk out onto the porch before he let the screen door slam and closed the heavy wood door with a decisive click. When he turned, he found his brothers staring at the legitimate-looking documents on the table as if they were a pot of gold at the end of a life that had been anything but rainbows.

Unfortunately, Deacon didn’t believe in pots of gold, rainbows, or women with innocent green eyes. He believed that you worked for everything you got, and life was a bitch and then you died. Walking over, he picked up the contracts and handed one to each of his brothers.

“Let’s not count our chickens before they hatch.”

   
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