It was the reason he had kept his interest in her fortune objective and made no assumptions about his entitlement to it. She had been trying to maneuver him into a beholden state for two decades.
She would be on her feet before this call was picked up.Īs for Gabriel being her heir, she wouldn’t stipulate such a thing without attaching a symphony’s worth of strings.
He moved with purpose from the room, more disturbed by the label ‘heir’ than his grandmother’s condition.įor one thing, Mae was far too bellicose to suffer anything for long, particularly ill health. In one fluid move, he tagged the doctor’s number, picked up the phone, and rose to leave without explanation. Contact details for her physician are below. Her instructions in such case are to promptly advise you that you are her designated heir. Transmitted from Luli: Your grandmother has experienced a medical event. He turned his titanium smartphone onto its backing of iguana-leather and touched the sapphire crystal screen. Therefore, at the first peal, he held up a finger to pause the roundtable discussion of an energy takeover that would make him the defacto owner of a small country. He didn’t need more money, but he hadn’t joined the eleven-zeroes club at thirty by ignoring opportunities to make more. Mae Chen’s missives were financial in nature, time-sensitive and always lucrative. No, the bell was a practical choice, being odd enough to draw his attention no matter what was going on around him. And yes, he had seen her shake such a bell on two of the three occasions he had spoken to her in person, but sentiment was not a gene either of them possessed. The distinctive tinkle of a brass tea bell might have struck some as a sign of affection. His signature detachment, however, was not impervious to his grandmother’s ringtone. Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband Excerpt Chapter Oneīorn in the year of the dragon, Gabriel Dean was dominant, ambitious, passionate and willing to take risks. Sam and real-life Luli are innocent bystanders.
#COFFEE BREAK WITH DANI HUSBAND LICENSE#
I don’t want to say, “I want this and this and this to happen” and hear him go, “Yeah, Mom, that can’t happen.” Ignorance is very much bliss! So if you happen to know something about computer programming and read this book and roll your eyes at the artistic license I’ve taken, that’s all on me. My son is generous with his time if I have research questions, but I’ll be honest. I have no idea if my description of Luli’s hacking holds water. Luli locks him out of his own software–which makes him mad, but secretly appeals to the nerd in him. I needed my Luli to develop a skill while she’s trapped for years with Gabriel’s rich, eccentric grandmother, something that would allow her to be a pain in Gabriel’s behind. I accidentally lifted Luli’s vocation of computer programming for my fictional Luli. Strictly comrades in computer programming, but I have it on good authority–Sam–that she’s a really great coder. I later had the good fortune to meet real-life Luli. I fell in love with her name and said, “I might steal that for a heroine.” He said, “It’s actually Lucrecia.” I said, “Even better, but what kind of name is it?” He said her family was from Venezuela and I thought that was intriguing enough to keep it. Calling home, even for money, hardly ever happened.īut on one of our rare calls, he mentioned a classmate, Luli. The course is widely known to be intensive and gruelling and generally the only thing a student does–eating and sleeping are luxuries.
Essentially, they cram four years of learning into two. My son, Sam, took a two-year computer programming class at British Columbia Institute of Technology.
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