“Look, Michael! It’s a dolphin!” I couldn’t believe my eyes as the beautiful sea creature leapt from the water. 
Both of us laughed, but when I locked eyes with him, the only thing I could think about was how badly I wanted him to kiss me.
If only he wasn’t my best friend’s dad….

Shelby goes on the vacation of a lifetime aboard her friend Lauren’s yacht, but when she gets there, she discovers Lauren is engaged—to her ex-boyfriend.
He had been cheating on Shelby with Lauren for months.
On top of that, Lauren’s snooty friends bully Shelby and make her feel bad for being poor.
The only good thing about the trip is Michael. He’s so kind, considerate, and handsome. And Shelby thinks he might be interested in her, too.
But… he just happens to be Lauren’s dad.
Will Shelby and Michael let their true feelings be known, or will she always be longing for her billionaire beach daddy?

Longing for the Beach Billionaire Daddy is created by Scarlett Rossi, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

Longing for the Beach Billionaire Daddy

I stared at Reggie's image, my laptop casting a pale glow against the darkening room. The numbers he was screen-sharing with me were stark and unforgiving. It was the moment I had been dreading—the reckoning of dreams versus reality.


"Michael, we're bleeding cash," Reggie said, his voice a blunt instrument hammering at my resolve. "At this rate, we won't last another quarter. You're going to be hemorrhaging your personal funds just to break even."


The weight in his words anchored me to my chair. I raked a hand through my hair, feeling the grit of a day spent wrestling with problems that seemed to multiply by the hour. Our resort, Shelby's dream sculpted into white sands and azure waters, hovered on the precipice of failure, and it clawed at my insides.


"Look," Reggie continued, the static of the video call crackling between us, "I know you and Shelby poured everything into this place. But sometimes, cutting losses—"


Chapter 266 : Out of Desperation