All Chapters of Alluring Mr. Billionaire : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Meghan's POVThe next morning, I woke up feeling like a Disney princess who’d just found out her castle had a fully-stocked bar.Sunlight was streaming through my window, birds were probably chirping somewhere (I couldn’t hear ‘em, but it felt that kind of day) and my whole body was humming with this warm fizzy afterglow.Yeah, he’d run away. But he’d also kissed me! He’d touched me with his heart was pounding under my hand. Life was quite frankly awesome!My phone started blaring some obnoxious pop song from my nightstand, seriously harshing my mellow. I fumbled for it, squinting at the screen.Mom. Of course.I took a deep breath, plastered on a smile I knew she wouldn’t be able to see but would definitely be able to hear, and hit answer.“Hey, Mom! What’s shakin’?”“Meghan, honey! Just checking in. How are you? How’s my brother? Is he giving you any trouble?”Her voice was all warmth and concern, the same as it was every single morning and just like that, a little chunk of my aweso

Meghan's POVSo, the universe decided to throw me a freakin’ curveball. One second I’m replaying the totally conflicted look on Alex’s face after my goodnight kiss and the next...bam.Pitch black darkness.“Okay, Meghan,” I mumbled to myself, channeling my inner action hero. “Don’t panic. It’s just a… uh… spontaneous night?”A huge gust of wind howled outside, rattling the windows, followed by the first deafening crack of thunder.Oh. Right. A storm. The lights weren’t out because of some creepy horror movie villain.. they were out because Mother Nature was having a full-blown tantrum.Rain started hammering the roof and I could already feel the temperature dropping. Crap. We were in the mountains and without power, that meant no heat. It was gonna get cold.My first thought was the windows. I did a weird, arms-out zombie shuffle down the hall, bumping into a wall twice, until I managed to get them all closed. The house felt instantly quieter but also way more isolated.That’s when I