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“Yes, you are, Coop. You’re perfect. I should want you. Or, you know, someone like you.”
He stared at her for a long moment, and she saw the fire brewing in his eyes.
Oh boy, what have I done?
“You don’t know me, Harp,” he said. “I know you’re broken-hearted right now, but we only have a few days left together. Spend the day with me. The guys are nursing hangovers on the beach, so let’s hang out. Just us.”
Harper glanced away.
“I don’t know, Cooper.”
Just the thought of it felt like she was betraying Daniel.
He’d be furious if he saw Cooper sitting her with her, his arm along the back of the sofa around her. Yet Daniel was on the other side of the planet preparing to marry a senator’s daughter.
He hadn’t texted her.
He hadn’t tried to stop her from leaving.
He had done nothing.
Daniel had left and returned to his life in New York, forgetting her.
“Plus,” he said, turning her chin and winking at her. “I’ve got money. Maybe not as much as Dufort, but I could splash out on a penthouse or two.”
Harper frowned at him and batted his hand away. “Stop it, you know I’m not like that. If anything, his money was scary.”
“Scary?” Cooper laughed.
Harper shrugged. It was hard to explain to people who had money, and she’d figured out pretty early on Cooper had a bit more than he was making out.
“Intimidating,” she answered. “How could I ever fit into a billionaire lifestyle?”
Cooper leaned back into the cushions of the sofa and shook his head. “That guy is an asshole. You should never have felt that way, Harper. I might not be a billionaire—yet—but let me show you how to be with a rich man and enjoy it.”
Yet?
Harper was suddenly filled with a dozen questions. She narrowed her eyes at him. “How rich exactly are you, Cooper?”
He leaned in and smiled. “See, that’s the difference between him and I—I’ll never tell. Old money, sweetheart. Old money.”
Harper didn’t know what that meant, but she couldn’t help but laugh at him. Daniel had never talked about his wealth, but Cooper didn’t know that.
His charm was putting a smile on her face, so she let out a sigh and decided at the very least she needed to get out of the hotel.
“No promises, Coop,” she said.
He stood and held out his hand, ever the gentleman. She took it and lifted her to her feet. “I’ll be back in thirty minutes to collect you,” he drawled and lifted her fingers to his lips. “Dress pretty.”
Then left.
Harper sighed. She had just over two days left on the island. Nothing was going to change what had happened between her and Daniel.
He was gone.
She hadn’t come to Hawaii looking to meet a man, and yet she had. Two of them. Both gorgeous and wealthy. It was like something from one of her novels.
One of them she had fallen in love with, and he’d broken her heart. The other was just a friend, but she wondered if her Daniel blinkers had blocked her from seeing any other possibility with Cooper.
