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"Well, they didn’t strike me as men who needed money."
"But a billion dollars? Who would turn that down?"
"Very few men," Monty nodded.
She stepped out of his embrace. "I don’t want that money either. What happens in a case like that?"
"It gets passed onto the next of kin, but so your children if you have any."
"I won’t. I want to give it to charity, then. Will you help me?" She knew she was fixating on the money. The truth was she hated that money. All four billion dollars’ worth of it.
"It will be my pleasure."
"Thank you."
She had allowed this to happen. She had done the stupidest thing and fallen in love with them. And now she was going to live a lonely life, just like her great aunt.
"Will you drive me home, please?"
"In a bit. Take your time packing."
She nodded and was just about to slip into the bedroom when the door burst open.
Heaving as if she had been hit by a truck, she stood there, mute and paralyzed. Had they thought she had left already? Oh, god.
"I’m sorry. Just give me a minute. Monty is going to take me home."
Her heart just couldn’t break anymore.
Chapter Ten
“You are home,” Beckett thundered rather loudly.
“If you thought for a second that we took the money over you girl, we’re going to spank your ass so hard, you won’t be able to sit for a month.” Keaton had his turn to thunder at her.
“You think we’d have given you up for three billion dollars? Or ten? Or a hundred? Because that’s roughly what we’re worth, thanks to the man who took us in. Rayne, there’s isn’t enough money in the world to give up for you,” Aston said calmly.
“I think that’s my cue to leave,” Monty said quietly.
Rayne couldn’t remember if she said goodbye to him or thanked him again for being there for her when she thought her world had imploded.
“But—”
“The fucking road washed out, Rayne. That’s why we’re late.”
“But you doubted us?”
“I didn’t know,” she stammered.
“Then we need to show who you belong to.”
“Go to the bedroom, take off your clothes, and kneel on the floor.”
She could barely keep track of her emotions. She knew she felt elated that they hadn’t taken the money, not that they needed it. But she had doubted them.
How could she have doubted them?
She removed her clothes and kneeled. Tears rolled down her face for a different reason now.
