Page 73 of Billionaire Unforgettable: Tanner

Those words didn’t do justice to her radiance, but there really weren’t words to tell her how I felt right now.

She smiled broader. Her eyes sparkled as she put a palm to my cheek affectionately. “You look incredibly handsome yourself, Mr. Remington.”

I let her go and swiped a box from the coffee table. “I want to give you something before we go,” I said as I handed her the box I’d picked up yesterday while she was shopping. “You might want to wear them.”

She looked at the box and then up at me again.

The gorgeous smile left her face.

“Harry Winston?” she said breathlessly. “Please tell me that whatever you bought is just in a Harry Winston box.”

Fuck!I hated that look on her face.

I tossed the box back on the coffee table, took her hand, and led her to the sofa.

“I think we better talk before you open the box,” I said gruffly as we sat.

“Tanner,” she said hesitantly.

“Just let me talk, Hannah. I think we need to get a few things cleared up now that we’re starting over again.”

She nodded slowly.

“I’m not a young guy who doesn’t know what my priorities are, and I’m not the man you knew who couldn’t pull his head out of his ass long enough to realize what really mattered. The urge to be a good provider for you was always there for me. Not because you can’t take care of yourself. You did a damn fine job of doing that for yourself in Seattle. But it doesn’t matter. I think every man wants to take care of the people he cares about, and that instinct to take care of you and make you happy has gotten even worse for me with age and maturity. My obsession with KTD started out with me wanting to take care of you, but I got caught up in the game of trying to be the best. That’s not where my head is anymore, and it hasn’t been for a long time. In my mind, I don’t see the point of having the money I havenow if I can’t use it to make people happy. I have everything I could possibly want or need. Maybe my obsession with wanting to make you happy, provide well for you, and needing to watch out for your safety is old fashioned, but it is what it is. That’s who I am now. More than likely, I’ll be a pain in your ass in the future, but I can’t change who I am. I’m going to buy you the stuff I want you to have in the future, things I couldn’t afford when we were together last time, and I hope to hell you can learn to just accept that.”

She shook her head. “It’s not really that…”

“What is it then?” I demanded to know.

“I’m used to taking care of myself, Tanner. I’m not used to someone caring about my safety or my happiness anymore.”

“Get used to it,” I grumbled. “As long as we’re together breathing the same air, I’m always going to be thinking about ways to see that gorgeous smile of yours, and I amalwaysgoing to be protective. We spent years on a tight budget, Hannah. Now I’m obscenely rich and I can give you anything your heart desires. Let me?”

“Has it ever occurred to you that I want you to be happy, too,” she said stubbornly. “I’m not a billionaire, so what can I do to makeyouhappy?”

Hell, there was only so much honesty a man could do.

I didn’t think she was ready for that answer.

“Accept everything I want to give you?” I suggested. “And just be with me. If you do, I promise you that I’ll be ecstatically happy.”

She slapped me on the shoulder. “You know that’s not what I’m talking about.”

I shrugged. “It’s the truth.”

“You’re impossible,” she said with a small smile. “Now tell me what I can do to make you happy if I’m going to readily accept what you want to do for me.”

“I’d think that would be pretty obvious, sweetheart. I haven’t dated anyone since the day we broke up. I just wantyou. Always have. Always will.”

She let out a happy sigh, and that smile I loved was back on her face again. “You’re an incredible man, Tanner Remington. Have I told you that lately?”

I grinned at her. “No. But you just made my fucking day.”

“Then I’ll make sure I remind you of that every day,” she shot back. “And I’ll figure out how to make you happy without being a billionaire.”

Hell, I was easy. All she had to do was crook a finger and let me know she wanted me.

I’d get her naked and be the happiest guy on earth.

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