The Grumpy Billionaire

<p><em>What's a grumpy guy to do when the one who got away (and stole his heart) comes back? </em></p><p><br></p><p>When we last saw each other eleven years ago I would have bet everything I owned would've bet my mother's life that Reid Mancini loved me. I knew that because I loved him too. Madly passionately with every fiber of my seventeen-year-old being.</p><p>And that was why I made sure after our high school graduation night I would never see him again.</p><p>So much for that plan.</p><p><br></p><p>My new TV reporting job in Rhode Island is both good and bad. Good because it's a great step up career-wise. Bad because it's a little too close to home... and to him the only guy who's ever tempted me to let go and love someone.</p><p><br></p><p>Now my first love is all grown up with a full-grown man's size and power and an oversized cocky attitude to match.</p><p>With the world's largest social media network to his name he's got all the fame and fortune he ever wanted and then some-and no doubt a harem-full of willing women falling at his feet.</p><p><br></p><p>Oh and he hates me.</p><p>Not that I can blame him.</p><p>He has no idea why I abandoned him so suddenly... or how often I still think of him. He won't find out either-not if I have anything to do with it.</p><p><br></p><p>Everything would've been fine if he'd just stuck to his famously aloof no-talking-to-the-media policy. But no he's decided to give his first ever television interview. And he says he'll talk only to me.</p><p><br></p><p>If I could turn him down without losing my job I'd do it in a heartbeat. That's how desperately I don't want to be in the same room with him talking one-on-one on camera for God's sake. But in TV news ratings rule-and hot hard-to-get billionaires are ratings gold.</p><p><br></p><p>So I have to spend a week with him getting the story. It's the only way to keep my job.</p><p>I just hope I can keep my secrets in the process.</p><p><br></p><p>It's only a week. I can do this. Seven days. Two ex-lovers. One last chance.</p><p>Now we'll see exactly how much of a difference a decade can make... and how impossible it may be to leave the past behind.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>THE GRUMPY BILLIONAIRE</strong> is a hot small town romance take on Sleeping Beauty. It's a standalone enemies to lovers second chance romance filled with heart heat and grumpy billionaire romcom fun!</p>