Free Bought by the Billionaire Brothers 6 by Alexx Andria

The stakes have never been higher for curvy
Penny McDaniel and her billionaire brothers as each vie for her love. Who
should she choose? Should she risk rejection and go with her heart or choose
the safe but ultimately, loveless route in exchange for financial stability? In
a world where deep, painful secrets have the power to ruin, Penny and the
Buchanans have to decide if they’re strong enough to pay the heart’s ransom.
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    Bought By The
Billionaire Brothers 6:
    The Heart’s Ransom
    By Alexx Andria
    Copyright © 2013 by Alexx Andria. All rights reserved.
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story of approx. 13,000 words is a work of erotic fiction and part of a
six-installment story arc.
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    Dillon had balls
of steel to walk up to her as if nothing had happened, wearing a grin fit to
bamboozle even the most stoic of women as if she’d just fall into his arms
because he deigned to talk to her.
    Screw that.
    She was tired of
the men in her life treating her as if she were too stupid to think for herself
or assuming she didn’t have an opinion about what was going on.
    She had plenty of
opinions about the situation and right about now, she was ready to share them
with the first unlucky fool to cross her path.
    Maybe it was all
those years of squelching her feelings, hopes or dreams that it’d somehow
become normal to simply nod like a bleating sheep and follow wherever she was
led but those times were over. Penny didn’t know if the change was attributed
to the fact that her heart had been stomped into a million pieces along with her
dignity or she was simply fed up with everything going wrong in her life but
she wasn’t going to sit back and swallow her feelings any longer.
    She wanted
answers, damn it.
    Everything
spiraled back to Isabel and so far, Dillon had only shared half the story. What
the hell had happened in the Buchanan family to create such a psychic fracture?
She knew the barest of details: Isabel had killed herself by doing a swan dive
from the twins’ penthouse and she’d been pregnant when she died. But she didn’t
know what the twins’ involvement was or why Dillon hadn’t simply apologized for
being an ass and repaired his relationship with his father. How had one
incident torn apart the lives of so many people?
    It was plain to
her that each of the Buchanans were suffering from an overabundance of pride,
which had festered into ugly wounds in different ways.
    Was it her problem
that the Buchanans had never learned how to have a simple conversation? Communication, people. Try it sometime .
Emboldened by her fresh infusion of courage and chutzpah, Penny felt more in
control of her life than she had in years.
    For so long she’d
sat behind a desk, hoping and wishing someone would notice her — but
not just anyone — someone dashing, handsome and just a bit wicked.
Her Papa had always warned her to be careful what she wished for because God
had a funny sense of humor. She’d been star-struck by the twins but Dillon had
knocked her sidewise. She’d not only been noticed by one man with all those
qualities, but three! Talk about overkill. And her life had changed in an
instant. From the clothes she wore to the way she wore her hair, nothing seemed
remotely recognizable from the outside; however, Dillon had seen that she was
more than a doll to dress up and play with from time to time and that was
something the twins had failed to recognize.
    But there was one
thing all three Buchanans shared in common and it was something that