My Grumpy Billionaire (The Lasker Brothers #2)

by Nadia Lee

–Dad: I know what I want for my birthday. I want a baby. Although the text is coming from Dad’s number, it isn’t really from him. It’s Joey, his assistant, who should know better than to ask for an infant. The FBI needs to toss him in jail without a phone or Internet access for soliciting baby trafficking. –Me: Buying a baby to hand out as a gift is illegal. Didn’t you consult Dad’s lawyers about that?

Noah quirks an eyebrow. “Do you know if you read strap-on backward, it spells ‘no parts’?”

turn toward Griffin. He’s looking at me with a small smile, his eyes bright and satisfied.

I hug Griffin hard. My heart gallops against my chest, and I can feel his thumping too. I bury my face in his shoulder as my eyes heat with tears. All the loneliness I’ve felt since Mom and Grandma died starts to shrivel and die. In its place is a sense of belonging and love. Griffin might be my fake boyfriend, but what I feel for him is real.

And I’d rather lick a feral cat’s anus than have that happen.

Wow. That wasn’t what I thought she was going to say. So my guys are that persistent and strong, huh? It gives me an absurd sense of pride.

“If you want something, fight for it. If people treat you badly because of this, you have to fight that to hold on to what you have. Don’t let anything or anyone take away what you want. If you do, you aren’t fighting hard enough.”

It’s good that I found out he loves his career and anonymity more than me before I made a bigger emotional investment. But that doesn’t lessen the pain from the fact that I’m always going to be number two with the man I love.

When donkeys start fucking frogs I’ll thank him. Until then, he can go piss up a rope.

The weirdly achy throb in my chest I felt when she referred to the triplets as her family but not mine ripples through me again, more intensely this time. She couldn’t make herself clearer. It’s a fuck-you-and-goodbye box.

“Little ones, it’s just you and me. But it’ll be okay. I’m going to make sure that you’ll never, ever feel the lack from not having your daddy around. We’re going to be great together.”

Ellie jumps to catch it, but it bounces off her arms and hits Grant, who grabs it out of reflex. “Shit.” He immediately throws it back in the air like a steaming potato. It flies and lands on Huxley, who acts like he just got hit by a grenade.