Bedding the Billionaire (Book 3) (Legacy Collection)
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Authors: Ruth Cardello
Lil
Dartley’s
life is upside down. Her previously steadfast and predictable sister is marrying an influential billionaire and needs help planning the wedding of the century in less than a month. Years of middle class rebellion have not prepared Lil for handling billionaires or paparazzi.
Jake Dalton knows a train wreck when he sees one. Lil was trouble from the first day he met her, but since her sister is marrying his best friend, he has no choice but to help her or this wedding will be in the news for all the wrong reasons. Keeping Lil safe would be a whole lot easier if she didn’t drive him crazy both in and out of the bedroom.
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Book 2: For Love or Legacy
B
ook 3: Bedding the Billionaire
Book 4: Saving the
Sheik
h
(
Coming:
Fall 2012
)
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Dedication:
To Carmen
Sonnes
, an
artist who kindly allowed me to feature her story and her artwork in this book.
Please visit my website for more information about her.
And to my parents, two incredible people, who taught me everything I know about family, friendship and the resiliency of love. I miss them both every day.
Bedding
The
Billionaire
Ruth
Cardello
Copyright Ruth Cardello 2012
All Rights Reserved
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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, places, events, business establishments or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Table of Contents
hapter One
“
Looking for more about the
Corisi
/
Dartley
whirlwind romance?
We have
an exclusive interview with the bride-to-be's sister
.”
The promo from a Boston news station played
on the phone Jake Walton had propped on a table in his
room-sized closet as he was getting dressed one morning.
Jake paused briefly
from looping
his
carefully chosen
,
blue
,
silk
tie in a
full
Windsor
. Most men were aware of one or two wa
ys to knot a tie, but Jake knew
over eighty methods to perform that simple function and
how
each conveyed a subtle, yet different message.
Information was power
,
even when applied to the details.
The video clip his business partner
, Dominic
Corisi
,
had sent his phone a few moments earlier was not welcome information, but
since the ac
tual interview had yet to air
there was time to squash it. Having a network of security in a variety of cities had paid off again.
This was an unfortunate distraction for
Dominic
at the very time when he most needed to regain his focus.
Luckily
the situation could easily be rectified
with
a few phone calls and
would
hopefully be quickly
forgotten by the public.
No doubt,
Dominic’s next step would be to call him, perpetuating the cycle they
had
fallen into
years ago–
Dominic made a mess and
always
expected Jake to clean it up.
Jake didn’t deny that there was a certain pleasure to be found in bringing order to the chaos hi
s business partner often left in his
wake.
Normally something like
this interview
would be categorized as a minor nuisance.
Dominic
was famous for being volatile, impulsive,
and
often the subject of legal inquires
,
certainly
not
a man
who
feared bad press,
but
with
Corisi
Enterprises having invested
so
much into one contract with China
,
the stakes were insanely high.
Jake resumed
knotting his tie as he
watched
the rest of the video clip.
“
Listen as Lil
Dartley
spills
her
true
feelings about
having
billionaire
and
computer tycoon Dominic
Corisi
kidnap
her siste
r
. H
ear
her confess something
that is sure to rock the
Corisi
camp.
Think you know the whole story? You don
’t know this. Don’t miss
our exclusive phone interview
–
t
onight at seven.”
Surely Dominic hadn’t been
careless
enough to share
the one piece of information that could topple
Corisi
Enterprises? If so, no amount of money
could
stifle her interview.
Was
Lil making
a grab for her five minutes of fame
,
or
someth
ing more insidious?
She
was a young, single mother of
t
wenty-
five
.
It wasn’t unimaginable
that she
’d think
the world owed her something since her sister had hit the proverbial jackpot by snagging a billionaire.
Normally the exposure of human flaw did not elicit more th
an annoyance from Jake, but it was oddly disappointing to find it so soon in Dominic
’s new family–
Lil in particular.
Not that her character, or lack of,
should matter
one way or another to Jake.
She was, and always should have been, off limits.