Page 73 of Dr. Billionaire's Fake Marriage

Homecoming

Troy

We don't leave as planned. The twins won't let us. George wants to catch up with his daughter, and Halie wants to make her husband and children happy. So, we give in to George's plea of spending a few days at Quantico.

Who am I to take that privilege away from Camile? She doesn't utter a word, but her eyes say it all. The twins are clingy, and I can see she'd love to spend time with her step-siblings.

Halie has been nothing but kind to me since I got here. When I agreed to stay in Quantico, I announced I would take a hotel room. But Halie and George Howard won't it.

“We have plenty of rooms here,” Halie says. “We will make you comfortable.”

I look over at Camile, who is smiling at me. I will be comfortable wherever I find Camile. “Two days is the most I can stay away from Richmond,” I say. I know George understands that I have a hospital to run.

The twins come into the house a few hours later. They find Camile and me in the living room. In the distance, they look like a pair of George's younger self. Camile beckons to them to join me. One of them asks if I am Camile's friend.

Camile takes it upon herself to introduce me to the duo. “This is my boyfriend, Troy Robinson.”

"This is Aden." Camile points to the one with the baseball cap. "This is Adam." She points to the one without a cap. The twins are identical, and I wonder how everyone in the house knows who is who.

The twins smile at me, and I shake hands with them simultaneously.

“Do you play baseball?” Aden asks me.

"Yes,” I answer, “I was a captain of my high school baseball team."

Aden lets out a long sigh. He throws his hand as if to pitch. "Finally, someone who is not boring."

The twins are not in high school yet, but they are glad to be once the summer ends. I listen to them talk, and they listen when I tell them how I run the biggest hospital in Richmond.

"If you run the biggest hospital in Richmond, then you are a rich man, right?" Aden, with the baseball cap, speaks up after a few minutes of silence.

"Yes, I am quite rich," I affirm as I glance at Camile to save me from being interrogated by these beautiful young minds. She laughs, raising her hands in surrender.

"Philip's father owns a jet. Do you own a jet?" Adam joins his twin in probing me more.

I proudly reply the twin, "Yes, I own two jets."

When I tell them I own two jets, I see their faces light up. "You are richer than Philip's Dad!" Adam comments as Aden tells me he'd love to see my jets someday.

“Someday,” I promise them, “I will take you both on a tour in my jet.”

They both run into their rooms excitedly. Halie tells us she is sure her children will tell all their mates about my private jets.

“They are a handful.” Camile comes closer to me as she intertwines her fingers in mine.

"I love them already," I reply, pushing Camile's hair behind her ear and watching her a soft blush spread on her cheeks.

“I love you, Camile,” I tell her. “I won’t stop telling you that.”

“I love you too, Troy,” Camile replies. “I won’t stop telling you that, too.”

I chuckle at Camile’s joke. We are two people trying to mend things we thought we had broken. I excuse myself from the living room. “I need to make a few calls to Richmond,” I tell Camile. “I need to tell Henry I will be staying here for a few days.”

Camile smiles as I leave the living room and pace the veranda.

Henry doesn't pick up my call the first time, and when he finally does, he tells me he'd been trying to reach me for a while.

"I found her," I say and try not to sound excited. "I found Camile in Quantico. She is at her father's house." I am lucky she hadn't gone off to California to start her new career.

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