“ She was my fiancé,” Dillon said, his voice deadly calm with a razor’s edge of hatred and fury.
Nolan looked away, the shame of whatever guilt he carried mirrored in his expression. “Dillon… let it go. She’s dead. Nothing we say or do will bring Isabel back.”
“You’re right about that, little brother,” Dillon agreed. “But I think your little dove deserves to know what you did to her.”
“Stop.” Nolan nearly pleaded. “Leave it be.”
“What happened?” Penny asked tremulously. “What did you do?”
But Vince cut in, silencing Nolan before he had a chance to speak again. “Your hands are not clean, though you like to play the victim. Isabel never would’ve left you if you hadn’t thrown away any chance of a future with the family. You made that choice, not us.”
“And you were right there to help her pick up the pieces, weren’t you?” he sneered. “Couldn’t wait to put your cock inside my woman and offer her your demented little deal except when you realized she was pregnant, you panicked and cut her loose. You’re the reason she took a swan dive from the roof. How you live with yourself I haven’t a clue.”
Penny stared dumbfounded. “Isabel was pregnant?” Nolan swore under his breath before nodding. “Whose baby was it?” she whispered, unable to believe how much that revelation hurt.
Dillon barked a hollow laugh. “Who knows? She was stuffed with plenty of Buchanan cock in her brief tenure on the Buchanan payroll. It’s anyone’s guess.”
“Stop it,” Penny said, wincing at Dillon’s callous remark. Even though she sensed it came from a place of raw pain, she hated that he wielded his pain like a weapon. “Just stop.” She moved slowly away from Dillon, not sure what to think or feel. She hated to see how quickly he changed, going from loving and sweet to rude and mean in a space of a heartbeat. She needed time to think. She rose slowly and Nolan gathered her into his arms protectively. Penny shivered at the narrowed stare Dillon sent her.
“Such a good little pet.” Dillon’s subtle smirk cut her to the core .
“Your papa would be so proud.”
“Stop it,” she cried, hating that Dillon was being so unkind to her when she’d done nothing to deserve his cruelty. “What is wrong with you?”
Vince shook his head, disgust in his tone. “He only cares about himself.
He’s always been that way. Get your things, Penny. We’re leaving.”
Penny spared one last glance at Dillon and she knew the image of him, lounging in a deliberately casual position with a fuck you smirk on his face, would haunt her dreams. He’d used her to get back at his brothers. Somehow, deep down, she’d feared that his motivation hadn’t been pure but she’d clung to the hope that she was wrong.
God, it hurt to be so grievously mistaken .
“See you at the board meeting, little brothers…” Dillon called out, taunting the twins as they rushed her out the door to the awaiting Town car . Once inside the darkened confines, both Vince and Nolan punished her with an angry silence that echoed with the guilt of her betrayal. But even as she was willing to acknowledge how much she’d screwed up, a part of her was sobbing at the loss of something she’d thought was going to be special.
Dillon had used her the facts were plain. But her body still remembered the feel of his mouth on hers, the feel of his possession and she knew nothing would ever erase the elation she’d felt belonging to the bad boy Buchanan… if only briefly.
Is Dillon as heartless as he seems or is he protecting a long broken heart? Penny must discover if she’s better off taking the easy, but less passionate, road with the twins, or fighting to heal the shattered pieces of the bad boy Buchanan to have the love of her dreams. But is Dillon’s heart simply too damaged to be healed? And is it a risk Penny is willing to take?
Don’t miss the last two installment s of the Billionaire Brothers series.
In the Buchanan family, is as it seems. Does Penny really want to know the truth behind the secrets and
lies? Can she handle the skeletons hiding in the Buchanan closet or is ignorance better? Torn between three men, Penny must decide who is right for her no matter the cost.
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“What are you doing here?”
That single question, even as uninviting as his stark tone implied,sent a riot of goose bumps popping along Elise’s skin. She remembered that voice, as if it were spoken in her ear only yesterday instead of the years between them, and her breath caught painfully in her chest. The desire to fall into his arms, regardless of the consequences, tightened her muscles and made rational thought difficult.
He looked the same — God, did he never age? —not classically handsome, but unique and different, but always virile and powerful. The tension between them pulsed like alive wire, sparking dangerously within the confines of the executive office.
Gage had always been ruthless in business; his penchant for the jugular had served him well, she noted as her stare flitted among the fine furnishings and dark-paneled walls. Her stare returned to his, daring him to throw her out as he should for the both of their sakes.
“I’m getting married,” she said, barely able to manage the words. When she was with her fiancé Scott, she felt no hesitation in saying those words. She loved him. But standing before Gage made the words seem forced from her mouth. “I thought you should know.”
“Why?” His cold and distant stare might’ve fooled another, but Elise knew beneath that cool exterior burned a passion that distance and time had not squelched. Perhaps it had been foolish to come here but she’d known in her heart, she wouldn’t be able to walk down that aisle, dressed in white,to pledge her heart to Scott when another had already staked their claim.She needed closure. At least that’s what she’d told herself as she’d purchased her plane ticket to Colorado and lied to Scott about her trip.
She’d called it business. Well, it was…of sorts.
Scott, bless his naïve heart, had bought her lie without reservation. And why wouldn’t he? Elise had been lying to the poor man from the beginning.
“I need…” Oh God. How could she say the words? How could she tell Gage that she needed him out of her system so she could marry another? It seemed wrong…but not as wrong as the secret between them. She swallowed. “Gage…I just needed to see you.”