i> A Billionaire Alpha Older Man & Curvy Girl HEA Romance You spend all your life dreaming of that one true love and then you find it and you can’t have it. How fair is that?38-year-old billionaire Xavier Ballantine, ‘X’ for his friends, has dedicated his entire existence to duty: duty to his family’s business, to his dear ones, to an ex-wife he married just to do the right thing and then … right thing and then to his two beloved motherless twin daughters, his sole responsibility since their birth and also his only joy in a dull life that used to have no space for smiles.
And then there she was and suddenly he wanted things. Wanted her.
Soft and beautiful inside and out, the light to eclipse all others, his one true love, she was his from the first moment he spotted her over a year ago, but they don’t belong together.
She’s too young for him, too full of life, too joyful and he has an emotional baggage not even his private jet’s hold could carry.
He could never have her. Or could he?
24-year-old Cleo Morris hasn’t had it easy, but nothing has ever been able to snuff out her light; she just needed a kitchen and time to create and she could forget about anything and everything that ever hurt her, until she met the one person she couldn’t look away from, the one man that now is never far from her heart and mind: her first and only true love.
Serious, no-nonsense and take-charge in all aspects of his life, X is a CEO in and out of his office and looks after everyone he feels responsible for, including her .
She feels safe with him, protected.
Under his gaze, the pain of the loss of her dear yaya and the years of scorn and undermining she had to endure because of her curvy physique and her desire to be a chef just disappear.
There’s only one teensy tiny problem: he is her boss and they don’t belong together.
X is older than her, he’s refined and classy and they don’t share much, aside from their love of food and their partly Greek background.
She could never have him. Or could she?
Leap day is fast approaching and someone is about to jump straight into love, with both feet and without looking.
Dear Reader:
This steamy will-they-won’t-they Leap year novella is short, filthy-sweet and, as usual, it’s a SAFE read with NO cheating.
Come on in, pull up a chair and sit down to enjoy a slice of this piping hot dish that features a madly in love possessive alpha and the voluptuous heroine of his dirtiest dreams as they leap into their happily-ever-after when a passion that’s been simmering for fourteen months is finally let loose.
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Beautiful simple romance
3.5
It’s a good romance, but I found the first part of the story long because the two main characters find only qualities that they list at length for the person they secretly love, while arguing about the reason for doing nothing to make something happen between them. The story is simple, tender, well written, but also hot once their relationship begins.
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Xavier and Cleo will have you emotions all over the place in this story. Cleo grew up in a dysfunctional home while Xavier had a dysfunctional marriage. When he first met Cleo Xavier knew she was something special and made sure that she would be a part of his family even if he had to love her from a distance. When an incidence almost have him losing Cleo, Xavier has to make a decision what was more important. Will he choose wisely and go after the woman he loves?
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He is afraid of breaking her heart!
The first 26% of this book was like, yappity, yappity, yap, it was so much information about her life, it was getting really tiresome to listen to her dialogue of her life. But the story really started for me in chapter three with Xavier feelings and what he had to endure with his ex-wife and the mother of his twins.
This story made me laugh out loud and even brought tears to my eyes.
I wish that the book could have continued a little more in-depth about Cleo mother, close to the end of their story. We never heard anything about what happen or even if Cleo mother reach out to her once things had settle down with Cleo and Xavier…
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Cleo is a young Chef that cooks for X and his family. His family consisting of himself and his two adorable twin daughters, Maia and Gaia. Cleo is in love with her Boss. What she doesn’t realize is that perhaps her Boss isn’t all serious all the time. Cleo has found a family she so desperately needed with X’s family because her own isn’t all that great! This is a short, steamy story that can be read fairly quickly. It has all the feels to make the lunch break or the work day go by quickly!! Buy the book! You won’t regret it!! By the way, this is the first book I’ve read from this author. It won’t be the last.
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This book is a great read but it could of been better with more dialogue between characters.
Most of the story is both Cleo and Xavier internally reliving their pasts. Cleo with her mother and younger sister, the lack of love, family or support. A out her ya ya and the emotional drama her mother caused. At one point I thought maybe her mother and sister would find out about Xavier and try to weasel their way into his life.
Xavier’s drama was the number his ex wife did on him emotional. He never loved her only married het to keep his twin baby girls in a family with both mother and father. But when he learned of her betrayal that brought him his precious little girls he distanced himself even more on to have divorce her a few months after the girls were born. She did a number on his trust in women.
But Cleo is different. They are both so utterly in love with each other they react differently but the same. It is not until a misunderstanding at an event that they come to terms that they are both in love with each other. It only took them over a year to get there. But once they crossed that line boy was it hot. They’ve built on their existing family and their existing businesses. A HEA.
Cleo was a chef for Billionaire Xavier Ballentine at one of his restaurants until he hired her as his personal chef. Cleo is immediately attracted to X and pines for him for years unbeknownst to her that he feels the same until one night he overhears her being mistreated and his protective nature showed.
The characters were good, well realized. The story line was good.
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Cleo is a young, curvaceous woman. Xavier is an attractive, single father, older alpha male. She is a personal chef and he just happens to be her boss. This is a story about insta love and not taking chances. I enjoyed the way this book was written and, of course, the happily ever after. On the way to that HEA, they experience lust, anxiety, disappointment and finally, actualization. This is the first book I have read by Ms. Flint and I look forward to reading more.
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This is my first book by this author and it was a good read. The storyline was good. The fact that it was a prolonged love at first sight might for an interesting story. It taking a turn of events for the couple to let their true feelings come to the surface.