The Billionaire's Ultimatum
He pulled back and looked at me with those beautiful assessing eyes and then immediately started telling me about a dream he’d had involving Gerald the dinosaur and what sounded like an elaborate heist.
I was still listening to him narrate the dream when Laura appeared in the doorway.
She was in a simple sundress, her hair loose, minimal makeup. She looked like the morning sun—unhurried and warm and something I didn’t have a word for.
“Hi,” she said.
“Hi.”
We looked at each other for a second longer than was necessary, then—
“Alec, let Xavier breathe,” she said, turning away first.
“He’s fine,” I said. “Gerald’s heist is very important.”
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