“I never thought it was about the money for her.”
“I’m sure it isn’t for Gideon either,” Lyssa went on. “Matt says he’s been asking around about work. But seriously, Evan, how do you tell whether they want you for the money or for yourself? I mean, it was easy for you with Whitney because you didn’t have any money back then. But now, it would be really hard to know for sure.”
Eight years ago, he’d been twenty-six and Whitney barely twenty. His first million was still a couple of years off. His first billion further out still. But Whitney had wanted him even without the money.
At least, that’s what he’d always wanted to believe.
But life with Whitney had become unbearable. They barely spoke—and when they did it was usually to argue about something. She did her own thing, and he did his. Even when they attended a party together, they were separate, she with her crowd, he with his.
He knew how badly the miscarriages had affected her. They’d affected him too, and those bad times had somehow become as huge between them as the Hoover Dam.
Whitney had never been what anyone would describe as sweet, but once upon a time she’d been fun and sexy. Until the aching loss of the children they hadn’t yet been able to create turned her cruel and mean. Now she had her own bedroom, and they hadn’t come together since that last miscarriage at the beginning of the year. He’d thought she needed time, but time had only made things worse.
The dam between them had burst the night of Will’s Halloween party. When Paige arrived at the house, dressed in that sexy, mind-altering Cleopatra getup, Whitney had gone ballistic.
He could still hear her voice screeching in his memory. Why does she have to go everywhere with us? When is she going to get her own life instead of living off mine?
She’d stalked to her room and slammed the door. He’d planned to apologize to everyone at the party for her absence, but he was so damn sick of making excuses for her. He was terribly sorry for her pain—for the pain they both suffered over the babies they’d lost—but he was also tired of explaining away the horrible things she said and did in the name of her disappointment and grief.
Something had to give. Because Evan couldn’t stand any more. At this point, he wasn’t even sure he wanted to be married to her. Correct that—he was sure he didn’t want to be married to the woman she’d become.
On Halloween night, he’d finally seen beneath Whitney’s rage. And it was Paige herself who’d changed things, the sister who was always overshadowed, the sister who got the second look, never the first.
That night Paige had become a sultry seductress in her costume, bringing men to their knees.
And she’d made him look twice.
Not only because she’d been gorgeous, but because where Whitney had never fit in with the Mavericks, Paige made everyone laugh and listened when you needed to talk something through.
Paige.
Why couldn’t he stop thinking about her?
Why couldn’t he stop looking, even now that Halloween was long past?
As he glanced her way, the smile she gave him touched something deep inside. And he couldn’t stop the unforgivable thought that he’d picked the wrong sister eight years ago.
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BREATHLESS IN LOVE (Will Franconi’s story) and RECKLESS IN LOVE (Sebastian Montgomery’s story) are out now! IRRESISTIBLE IN LOVE (Evan’s story) will be released in early 2017!
Enjoy an excerpt from BREATHLESS IN LOVE, Will’s story…
Will Franconi has a dark past that he’s kept a closely guarded secret—very few people have ever heard his real story and he plans to keep it that way. After surviving a hellish childhood, he’s now living the dream life where everything he touches turns to gold. But something’s missing. He doesn’t quite know what, until a simple letter from a teenage boy brings Harper Newman into his life—a woman who just might fill up the empty places inside him…if only he could ever be worthy of her love.
When a man has more money than he could spend in five lifetimes, Harper has to ask herself what Will Franconi could possibly want from a woman like her. She’s learned the hard way that rich men always get what they want no matter the cost. If it were only herself she had to worry about, Harper would manage, but she’s guardian to her younger brother, who depends on her for everything. After he nearly lost his life in a car crash, she’s vowed never to let anyone hurt him ever again.