All Chapters of Mr. Grayson: Billionaires' Club Book 4 : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

I was in a fantastic mood, just perplexed as hell. If only my mom were still coherent, I could get the answers I wanted.“Hey, lover,” Jim said, walking over and sitting across from me at the picnic table where I pretended to watch everyone behind my sunglasses.“Lover? Isn’t that what Collin and Jake throw around when they get lost in each other’s eyes like the dipshits they are?” I teased, stretching out my legs. I folded my arms and leaned forward on the table.Jim looked over his shoulder at Collin, who held his newborn son, and at his younger brother, Jake, standing at Collin’s side at the rail of the arena. Jake’s son was not a fan of these horses, and he sat on his dad’s shoulders unashamed about that fact, pointing at everyone else who was enjoying them.“Yeah, but…” Jim paused and turned back to me. “I only say lover because Av alluded to the fact that something’s up with you and Breanne.” He held up a hand to stop me from saying anything. “Don’t think for a second I’m that n

“It’s not my go-to quote, fuckhead,” I smiled. “It’s the truth.”“You’re probably in witness protection because when you were a child, you witnessed a mob hit, and you had to testify against the mafia boss, and you’ve been on the run ever since. Your real name is probably something like Pauly O’Russo, and you’re originally from Brooklyn,” Jim said, looking at me with prying eyes as if to confirm his ridiculous conspiracy theory.“O’Russo, huh? I’m Irish and Italian at the same time?” I asked, rolling my eyes.“You look like you could be either, so why not?” Jim said with a grin.“Well, you caught me. Don’t tell Tony Soprano where I am, or else,” I teased.“I knew it. If I get whacked because of you, I’m going to come back and haunt you,” Jim said with a shrug.I rolled my eyes and laughed as I texted Bree for her aunts’ last names.Dimples: Charlize Foster and Blaire Gandy are their married names. Morris is the maiden name. Why?Alex: Mother’s sisters? Or married into the family? The

“Hey,” I said after he turned to leave, and the mask of Alex, the businessman, had replaced the man I’d fallen in love with. I was a bit uneasy that I didn’t argue with him after his nonchalant proposal of offering me help. Still, I was done trying to act like I had any other options, and it was time to start being grateful and stop being bullheaded. Not everything needed to be so difficult, and after everything, I knew I needed to get out of my own way.“What, dimples?” He smiled in response to my vibrant one. “I have to get my ass out of here, or people are going to talk,” he dramatically mocked my request to keep our so-called relationship between us, “and we can’t have them talking, especially after they notice that badass car that you’re set on keeping. You know I couldn’t give a damn if I tried about what people think, right?”“Get your snarky and sexy butt over here,” I said, coming around my desk only to be met with an overzealous kiss that pulsated throughout my body.Alex gr

“How much are we under with this, and was there an architect working with you?” Alex directed his question back to the woman who’d purchased the property, and from what I saw on the cut sheet, she was using the firm to buy it with the promise to build on it.”“I believed I could entice the Fittyship family to work with Brooks and Stone by purchasing the property in good faith,” she responded.“So, you didn’t run this past any of us? Unless you knew about it, Mr. Hudson?”“I told her to use it as leverage,” David responded.I sucked in a breath of anger while Alex’s expression didn’t change— but anyone would’ve been a damn fool to think he wasn’t fuming.“Do I look like a man who wears a clown suit to work?” Alex asked. “Do I appear to be handing out cotton candy like I work at the goddamn circus?”“This is inexcusable,” I said. “David, you will find a way to recover the losses.”“David, you will turn in your resignation letter, or you’ll be fired for negligence, costing this firm 1.3

AFTER THE CHOPPER RIDE DOWN, I jumped into the car that awaited me, and I wasted no time getting to the marine aviation base in Miramar. My crazy morning that’d started by trying to kick my ass mentally had changed entirely when I was let through the gates and funneled into where family members awaited the arrival of their loved ones. I had to admit that, surprisingly, I was excited to see my sister. Part of me thought that maybe opening myself up to Bree meant opening myself up to feeling everything, all of my emotions. I had to be honest; I liked it. There was a sense of freedom that I felt in my soul. The only thing that concerned me about that was that my night terror was a reminder that the darkness was never far away.I saw all the families waiting for their loved ones, especially the baby girl who was about to meet her father for the first time since he was deployed before she was born. The energy was electric with nerves of excitement and anticipation, and that energy was radi