"So what's the deal wth your ex-fiancé'?" Micah asked right
before he took a huge slug of water.
Tessa tensed. She and Micah had taken a different route
on their run today, a path through the woods that had ended
in a clearing by the ocean. He'd wanted to stop since the route
had been longer than their usual run. Her eyes were drawn to
him, his head turned toward her as he stretched out on the
grass beneath them, a ragged T-shirt clinging to his damp,
powerful chest and muscular biceps.
"What do you mean? He was my fiancé, and then we
broke up," she replied uncomfortably. She didn't like to talk
about Rick to anyone. He was history, a part of her life that she
didn't want to discuss.
"Why?" he asked casually.
Tessa messed with her hair, re-securing it after some of
her curls had come loose during her run. Micah irked her when
he got this insistent. He was obviously going to wring the an-
swer from her, no matter how long it took. She was looking at
his face now, and she recognized his determined expression.
She sighed as she let her hands drop, her hair confined
once more. "Do you really want to know?" she asked warily,
hoping he'd say he didn't, but knowing it wasn't going to
happen.
"Yes."
That's what I was afraid of!
He leaned back and propped himself up on his arms, still
staring at her expectantly.
God, he looked good. The morning light reflected from his
hair, the mild wind ruffling it just enough for him to look sexy.
Her eyes trailed down to his sweatpants and expensive run-
ning shoes. How did a woman tell a man who looked like him
about being dumped?
"He was a rich and powerful man. We were together from
the time I turned eighteen, right after the Olympics. He talked
me into going back to Boston with him after we'd dated for a
few months. I did. We lived together for a year before he asked
me to marry him." She stopped thing about how naive she
had been back then. She'd thought she was about how to live she
that she'd food the one man who would love her forever. Life
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The Billionaire's Voice
Teen FictionAfter a troubling childhood, wealthy Evan Sinclair likes his life orderly and controlled. he rarely gives in to spontaneous urges--until he begins a chance correspondence with a mystery woman who sounds like his complete opposite. She intrigue...
