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The Billionaire Kings Book 5

Prologue

Saturday, 8 June

The night of the cyclone

Fitz

I leave the sanctuary of the Ark and head out into the wildness of the winter night

Man, it’s crazy out here The wind is blowing so hard, it’s ifarm across the field fro long, curling like a bastard, and the hips it around

I hope Poppy doesn’tfar the stor to keep all the anih with every plank of wood and loose tile flapping and banging about, without having to worry about the goats and rabbits getting twitchy

My decision to head over there has nothing to do with the fact that I find her attractive That I take any opportunity I can get to spend tihtly husky voice when she talks, and study her slender figure when she’s not looking

I’ve been building up to asking her out for a while She hasn’t been at the Ark that long—only three or four months She was a primary school teacher, but her brother, Albie, told me that she had a relationship with one of the deputy principals, and it ended badly Because of this, I’ve given her a little space, but I don’t want to leave it too long and see her snapped up by someone else

I reach the enclosure, which is empty, all the animals obviously inside the barn Poppy appears to have chained the gate with a padlock to ensure it doesn’t come loose, so I attempt to vault over the fence, catch my foot on one of the planks, and end up on round

Swearing under et up and dust myself down, stumble across to the barn, push the door hard, and pitch headfirst into the barn onto the floor again

“Hello, Mr Elegant” Poppy closes the door behind me, puts a bar across it, and offerswith the Stars?”

I scowl, take her hand, and let her pullshe’s six inches shorter than hter

“My back doesn’t bend the way it used to,” I tell her “I forget sometimes” An accident injured ery, but the injury has never healed completely—a constant reminder that I’m thirty-t and only half the man I used to be