All Chapters of The Billion Dollar Bet: Chapter 271 - Chapter 280

CARTER'S POV Grace kissed me and everything I'd been holding back for six months came crashing through. I kissed her back like I'd been dying to since the first time I saw her with the twins at that park. Not the careful kiss from Monday's driveway. Not the grateful kiss from the kitchen. This was

GRACE'S POV I woke up Sunday morning hating myself. Not for kissing Carter. For wanting to do it again. For lying in bed at six AM replaying every second, every touch, every sound he'd made when I'd pulled him closer. That wasn't protecting myself. That was backsliding into old patterns where Carte

"That's not true. I came here because I love you and I'm tired of pretending I don't." I was begging now, could hear it in my voice. "Grace, please. I'm not performing. I'm not calculating. I'm just telling you how I feel." "You can't feel!" Grace was crying now, angry tears. "You can only want! An

GRACE'S POV I read Carter's note again. And again. Kept coming back to one line that broke something open in me: "I left because I wanted to stay. You're not ready to trust that yet." He was right. If I'd woken up with him there, I would've panicked. Would've called last night a mistake, would've

GRACE'S POV I stared at Carter on my porch and felt everything from last night crash into this morning. His note upstairs. Ethan just leaving. My sons asking about us. My mom watching. Everything converging into this impossible moment. "Grace?" Carter was still holding the flowers. "Is this a bad