My Grumpy Billionaire (The Lasker Brothers #2)

by Nadia Lee

Is he stupid or blind or both? My mother is wearing a skintight black Versace maxi dress. Aphrodite came out of sea foam, not an oil spill.

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

The only real mistakes in life are the ones you don’t learn from, and that goes for relationships as well.

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.

But my fallopian tubes are only partially blocked. Apparently, some swimmers can still get through.” 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.”

“When they can’t yell at the messenger, they yell at the people closest to them.”

“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.”

life isn’t a romance novel, and I don’t have a hero to pamper me.

As soon as the bouquet leaves my hand, I turn around. 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.