Between Love and Loathing (The Hardy Billionaire Brothers, #2)

by Shain Rose

to go look cute

This guy...

“I’m not here to welcome you to town.” And there went her smile. Good.

Hes a jerk *_*

It’s like she couldn’t understand that putting a girly, Technicolor Barbie in the middle of my perfect, classic black-and-white film didn’t work. There wasn’t a place for her whatsoever.

Ohhh brother this guy STINKS

Pushing Clara’s buttons wasn’t boring at all. Not when I suddenly saw the fight in her eyes.

IM bored

small Birkin bag

oh shes richness :/

HEAT

Such a silly name for an empire

My body betrayed me as I stood there and tried not to drool or get weak in the knees.

Bye. Girl, stand up

Dominic was this untouchable god to most of us here. Click. Click. To me, though, he was the devil. Click. Click. And there I went, walking right into hell with him.

Hes literally just a guy. An architect.

little fighter.

This nickname pmo

“Oh, he does when I do.” Her smile was saccharine as she shrugged. “Still doesn’t make him my boyfriend.”

Oh she clocked him

cupcake?”

Oh gross

“We’re going home.”

Interesting

“No. Those are Christian Louboutins. My only ones. And that bag …” My stomach rolled at how much money was floating out to sea. “It was so expensive.” “Oh really?” He smiled down at me genuinely. A huge smile. I think it was the biggest one I’d ever seen on him. “How much?”

Nvm shes not richness but he is (swoon)

He hummed, “What size shoe do you wear, Clara?”

“That Birkin bag was at least $50,000.”

Oh wow

I was the eldest of the six kids of immigrant parents. They’d worked so hard to put me through college, to show I was worth something and I wanted to make them proud so badly. I wanted to prove to them and my younger siblings that we could all have the American dream.

:(

He was a charmer who spoke beautiful Spanish and flew us around the world for a few years before we found out about his other family, leaving my mother with nothing. It broke her and ultimately broke us. She never got over his betrayal, and I remember how she became obsessed with it being our fault.

Oh:(

My mother had starved Anastasia and I before.

Omg???

My stepfather hadn’t known about my mother’s physical and emotional abuse, but Anastasia stood by her and pointed out my faults every time, finding that it took the attention off of her.

Oh)":

But when I saw Clara stare at that man, jealousy slithered through my veins, potent and vicious in its pursuit to suddenly want to claim her as mine.

Hes funny

We might have been fake dating, but I was going to kiss her for real every fucking time.

Hes so insufferable but hot but so whipped its funny asf

And if I couldn’t live for me, I couldn’t live at all.

“And without the makeup, I see the imperfections that make you perfect.” He said it so easily, in that decisive tone that was meant to propel everything forward without emotion. “Huh?” “With nothing to define you, you’re just like everyone else, Clara. Your freckles, the way you blush, the way your lashes are a hint of red is what defines you. You’re painting over a perfect canvas.”

Hes so <333

“Pull every dress in her size, Miranda. And don’t tell my girlfriend what’s flattering and what’s not. She decides that. Not you.”

Ohhhhhhhhhhh hes won me over

“Looking at what’s mine is disrespectful. I can either go out and knock heads around all night or enjoy you in my bed. I’ll do either if that’s what you want.”

growled because if her ex had come waltzing in the way Natya did, I’d have cared. I’d have dragged her to the fitting room and fucked her loud enough for him to hear.

Scandulous!

We might have agreed to be done in a few months, but the timeline didn’t seem to matter anymore. Something was shifting between us, and no one was allowed to irritate my little fighter besides me. She was mine. And no one made what was mine feel anything but fucking flawless.

Hes so

I was falling for Clara Milton, and I had to make damn sure I stopped. Love between her and me would end up being a battlefield, and I didn’t want her wounded.

Oh brother, you lit just said shes your future wife

I was. Truly and utterly mad for Clara Milton, and it had started to feel a lot like love when I thought of her as my wife. I repeated those words over and over again in my head. My future wife. It had a nice fucking ring to it.

those glasses were so stupidly hot. Who was I kidding?

I get it girl

except Noah continued, “Here to see my girl and her bakery, of course.” I’d never seen Dominic stand taller and really size someone up. He didn’t even do it here. He was utterly confident in his ability to outshine another man, and yet I saw the way his jaw ticked when Noah said my girl.

Noah is so funny man

“I came here to support a friend, but you can bet I was looking to support her in all different types of ways.” There was the Noah the NHL knew and loved, searching for a freaking fight.

I wish i could use emojis on here man

ready to submit like the good friend he was.

Mc kinda funny

My sisters had married men who’d allegedly been in the mafia. I said it that way to anyone I was doing business with. At home, we fucking knew they killed people. The sad thing was I understood why now.

Hello!?!!?

“Bro,

Sorry, dom saying bro made me lol so bad

I felt the rage deep in me.

Bro you are a norma civilian. Lets chill out omggg

“Honestly, if you don’t know how to take care of her, Dom, I’m coming for you.” Before I could reply, he cut me off. “Not because I want her. I don’t. I actually came to tell her that specifically. I got a girl I’m going to wife up if it’s the last thing I do.” “You …” I stopped. “What the fuck, man?” He chuckled as he backed away from me. He’d been irritating the hell out of me for no reason. “If you intend to wife up some girl, better make sure she doesn’t know that you came to visit your friend with benefits, dumbass.”

Kinda need noah & dom to be bffs

I realize my boundaries are probably—” “Just what you need. Keep establishing them, babe.” He said it with conviction like he knew.

ILL CRY

“Maybe it’s time someone else starts taking care of you too.”

Oh why did that move me (ik why)

One of his dimples showed up when the side of his mouth curved.

Ohhh he has dimples ... I get it now

When she cooked in that kitchen, I ate copious amounts of little chocolates to try to curb the addiction I had to her.

Omg

I was falling in love with my fake girlfriend.

I thought he had already said that...

Didn’t she know I only wanted it from the people who wouldn’t give it to me? Her. She was the only fucking person.

“No, it’s not fraud. That’s just my future wife throwing a tantrum. Go ahead and run the bills through,” I grumbled and clicked off the phone.

thats hot

“You’re not everyone. You’re my future wife, remember? You’re the girl who gets to spend over a half a mil on fucking flowers. So, use the name you always do when you’re talking to your future husband, or I’ll punish you for that too.”

“I just wanted pictures up of people I care about.” I think I lost my heart there. Lost it all to him. “But I’m up there.” “Yes. Well, I think I might care about you most.”

Quietly fixing everybody’s problems behind closed doors and then acting like a freaking jerk to our faces? Is this the oldest sibling in you?”

think Rome and his wife are in Italy,

Sorry but thats so uncreative

I want to just be enough for someone. I deserve to be.”

“Do you know she’ll be able to ask me for the rest of her life to jump, and I’ll ask how high?