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Biting back a curse, I storm to Asia’s side.
Her brown eyes widen when she sees me. “Hansley, what are you doing here?”
I don’t answer.
Shrugging out of my blazer, I drop it over her shoulders.
She starts to protest. “I'm fine.”
“Don’t lie to me.” I give her a hard look. “You’re shaking like a bird caught in the rain.”
Her chin inches up even higher. “If you’re doing this because of the way people are watching me, I don’t care.”
“Yes, you do, but that’s not the freaking point.” I grab her arm and help her tug it through the sleeve of the blazer. “I'm doing this because you’re cold.” I take her other arm and do the same thing. “And because String Bean has the observational skills of an ostrich.”
“Excuse me?” String Bean bellows.
Asia laughs.
The sound is freaking Mozart to my ears. I look her over carefully. My blazer swallows her and I patiently fold up each of the sleeves until her slender hands are exposed.
Taking her fingers in mine, I tug gently. “Come on.”
“Where are you going?” String Bean demands, sliding in front of us.
“To the VIP section.” I arch an eyebrow. “Join us if you want.”
His mouth drops.
I give him a disgusted look and drag Asia to the front of the line where she freaking belongs.
Eleven
Asia
I’d forgotten that Hansley is a billionaire.
It really doesn’t matter to me and it was never a consideration in my mind.
I believe that a person is more than what they have in their bank account.
It’s why I was on-board with Thad's desire to break out of the cubicle grind and go after his dream of starting his own accounting firm. It was something he kept talking about and never had the guts to do. Fear of failure kept him from taking the risk.
Hansley was the complete opposite. Though he came from a wealthy family, he didn’t rely on old money to make his fortune. He threw in with his childhood best friends and opened up a software company that is now worth a billion dollars.
How do I know all this?
I might have looked him up after running into him at Make It Marriage.
It was just curiosity. Nothing else.
And I might have stalked his socials.
Just a little.
But what I saw on his public page gave me enough conviction to scrub him from my mind. Parties on yachts. Exotic locations. Exotic women.
