Final Offer (Dreamland Billionaires, #3)

by Lauren Asher

Alana has a daughter. A five-year-old daughter with dirty blond hair and big blue eyes eerily like mine.

You were never a failure, kid. I was.

“You always deserved better than me.” I rip my arm free of his hold. “No. I deserved better from you.”

“Aw, Pops. Don’t hold it against her. She believed in you too after all, and we know what a monster you turned out to be.”

It took Grandpa’s accident to get me on the straight and narrow. But by the time I got on the right path, it was too late. The girl who promised me forever had her arms wrapped around someone else, and I… I was too late.

“You did…while I was between your legs with my tongue deep inside your needy cunt.” Take that, you little witch. She chokes on her breath. “God.” “Please, no need to call me God outside of the bedroom. It gives me a complex.”

“Get inside now,” Cal orders from behind me, sending a shiver up my back.

I spin around. “You destroyed my dock.” “I’m about to destroy a lot more if you don’t get your ass in the house.” His voice is a deep rumble I feel in my gut. Goose bumps break out across my skin when I glance back at him. “What’s wrong?”

“I had lost my reason for getting sober in the first place.” Her brows furrow. “What? Money? Hockey? The will to live a normal life?” “You, Lana. I lost you.”

“I always thought we were meant to be. I might have screwed up the timing a bit, but that doesn’t change the fact that there is no one I want more in this world than you.”

Cami barrels into the room, her small hands raised in a fighting stance she learned in karate. “I’ll save you!” She slices her hands through the air and spin kicks. Her feet slide across the carpet, her arms flailing as she loses her balance.

Lana is the only woman I ever loved, and it’s time I started acting like it.

“I wished you can be my new daddy.” I wished you can be my new daddy. God. Somehow eight words make my knees as weak as my heart. I wrap my arms around her and squeeze. “There is nothing I’d like more than that.” And I mean every single word.

“You and Cami aren’t a deal. You two are a lottery jackpot, and it’s time someone treated you both that way.”

He presses a chaste kiss against my skin. “I don’t deserve you.” “Then become the man who does.”