Page 18 of A Bride for the Billionaire

Tillie looks toward Caleb and I can’t help but laugh at her audacity. Caleb can't hold himself together either. He just shakes his head and holds up his hand with his wedding ring on. She stomps her feet and the priest carries on.

"Caleb, I think I need to get out of here, I can feel a fit of the giggles coming on and I won't be able to keep them inside."

He smiles at me. "Come on, let's sneak out before they announce them as bride and groom." We both get up and without making too much noise, we slink outside. Once the air hits me I start laughing. "Oh my god that was so funny. Did she invite you so that you would stop the wedding? Hilarious."

Caleb laughs too. "I think you're right, I think she did. She would do something like that."

"Well I don't think it will improve your relationship with Daly anyway." We walk toward the car.

"Fuck him." He opens the door for me and I slide inside.

"Where are we going?" I ask as he hands me my seatbelt.

"It's a surprise. We will be back in time for the hotel, don't worry." He smiles and closes the door, walking around to the driver's side and sliding inside. He drives for about twenty minutes then pulls up to a very small harbor.

"Do you have a boat, Caleb?" He opens the door for me and takes my hand to help me out.

"Why yes I do, Mrs Masters." He smiles at me and I blush. Mrs Masters seems so right, but I know it's not real.

He keeps hold of my hand while we walk down the small jetty and get on the biggest boat in the harbor. Of course he owns the biggest boat. "Is this your only boat?"

He laughs. "No. I have a few. They are in the marinas of the places I like to travel to. I love watching Formula 1 when it is in Monaco. There is nothing like sitting on the back of the boat and watching it from there. The noise is deafening and you can feel the thrust of the cars from there. I also have one in Star Island."

"Of course you do." I laugh. Star Island is the home of the richest people in the area and they have their super yachts moored up there for most of the year. It's a statement piece. "Do you take it out when you are down there?"

"Of course I do, you know I always used to love messing around in the boats, I just mess around in bigger ones now." He laughs. "I want to take you to see the one in Star Island, but for today this one will have to do."

"This one is adequate enough, Caleb, it's huge."

He pulls me into his side and whispers in my ear. "That's what you said the other night."

I laugh and hit him on his arm. "Stop it."

He shows me around the boat and it's so nice to see his face lit up. He's not worried about anything, he's really chill today and I love it.

He gets the captain to start the boat and he takes us out on the lake. "It's so beautiful out here, do we need to go to the reception?" I ask him as a lady serves us champagne. I really am living a dream life? What will happen after the two months are over? I shake my head because I don't want to think that far ahead.

"I'd love to say yes, but I want to go and I want them both to see you on my arm. Not to ruin their wedding for her and for him, but because I am so proud of you and want to show you off."

"You know all the right things to say, don't you?"

"I try."

We stay on the boat for over an hour. The bride and groom were going for photos after the wedding so we know we won't miss their arrival. When we get back to the jetty, we get in the car and drive to the venue. It's beautiful. It looks like an old castle and I can't believe we are staying the night here. "I booked us the presidential suite," Caleb says, smiling.

"Does that mean something?" He looks like he's up to mischief.

"I kind of manipulated the hotel slightly." He blushes and pulls me off to the side of the hotel.

"Caleb, what do you mean?"

"When I rang and asked for their Presidential suite, they told me that it was taken. I explained who I was and that I was having a late honeymoon and wanted to stay in their best hotel suite. They, once again, told me it was taken. I asked what I could do to get the room. They put me onto the manager of the hotel and I offered to sponsor the redevelopment of their new, contemporary extension to the property."

"What the fuck, Caleb? That's going to cost you a fortune. We could have stayed in any room. Why did you do that?"

"We will have a stakehold in the hotel, so will make money from it eventually. We can also stay for free whenever we want and in the presidential suite. But for us, they moved the couple out of the presidential suite into their next suite."

"Crap, I hope whoever it is doesn't know you did that."

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