My Grumpy Billionaire (The Lasker Brothers #2)

by Nadia Lee

respect can’t be bought. It has to be given because you did something worthy. Because you’re a person of accomplishment.

“Trust you, huh?” “Yes. And let me take care of you.”

People assume that alcohol changes a person. But it doesn’t. It just takes away your inhibitions.

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.

For a moment, she feels like mine. My girl.

Although my head says it’s the trip, the jet lag and the champagne, my heart whispers, It’s the girl—Sierra.

“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.

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.”

“This is for you, Sierra, the love of my life, the light of my soul, the keeper of my heart.”