Utterly Yours (Book Three) (An Alpha Billionaire Romance) Read Free

them as he did every day, but today the conversations would prove to be quite useful.  “Mr. Lynch!” a homeless woman waved him down, and he approached her, offering her a smile.
                  “What can I do for you?” he asked.
                  “I’ve heard you been looking for Ace?” she asked.
                  Nathaniel perked up immediately.  “As a matter of fact, I have.  Have you seen her?”
                  “She took the bus to New York City,” the woman said and then went into a long discussion about what she believed Lillian was up to, and it did not sound good.  Apparently the neighborhood Lillian had intended to travel to was quite notorious for prostitution.
                  “I don’t like the sound of that,” Nathaniel said.  It was hard to believe that Lillian would stoop that low, but then again she did seem fairly desperate –and he had clearly made her far too uncomfortable to come to the shelter.  He thanked the woman and headed towards the back office to take a look at the map of the inner-city neighborhood the woman had been talking about.
                  Yikes, he thought.  He knew the area, but he had a hard time believing that Lillian would honestly go there.  Just as he was pulling up the map on his phone to save it, Tony walked in.  “What are you doing?” he asked, looking over his shoulder.  “Ooh, that’s a bad area.  I wouldn’t go there.  What were you doing, looking for places to eat in New York?”
                  “No.  Someone told me that they heard Lilian was going there,” Nathaniel said.
                  “Well, that’s her loss.  There’s no way you’re going there,” Tony said. “You’ll stick out like a sore thumb unless you’ve picking up a girl, you know what I mean?”
                  “That’s just what I plan to do –pick up a girl.  I just have a specific one in mind,” Nathaniel retorted.
                  “No way.  There’s no way I’m letting you go there,” Tony argued.
                  “Deal with it, Tony,” Nathaniel said, standing.  He looked at his watch.  It would be dark by the time he got there.
                  “If you do that-”
                  “What?” Nathaniel asked, spinning around to face Tony.  “What are you going to do, kid?”
                  “I’ll quit,” he said and crossed his arms.
                  “You’re not going to quit, Tony, but I appreciate the concern.  I’ll be fine,” Nathaniel assured him.
                  “I’m not going to come get you if you get in trouble.  I’m telling you that right now,” Tony said firmly, but Nathaniel knew he would if he needed him to.  That was just the way Tony was.
                  “Fine,” Nathaniel said.  “I respect that.  Now I’m going to go before it gets too late.  I have to at least try, Tony.”
                  “Take your Rolex off before you go,” Tony advised.  “And leave the t-shirt and jeans on.  Please, for the love of God, don’t go there in a damn suit.”
                  Nathaniel laughed.  “Will do, Tony.”

Chapter 4
     
                  Nathaniel drove up and down the neighborhood that Lillian had supposedly travelled to.  He did not see her anywhere, and truthfully he was a bit too nervous to roll down his window and start asking around.  The sleazy looking characters on every other street corner had him nervous.  Eventually, though, he realized he was running out of options.  He drove around a bit until he saw a group of what he assumed to be prostitutes who were not being guarded by a pimp; the last thing he wanted to do was piss off a guy toting a gun by talking to his merchandise with no interest in purchasing.
                  I should have