Betting on Beaumont: A Brooklyn Novel #3 (The Brooklyn Series) Read online

  Book 3 in the Brooklyn Series

  BY: DANIELLE JAMIE

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  First and foremost, I need to thank my fans! Because WOW. Did I make y’all wait for this final book or what?!

  For a while there I didn’t think I would ever finish this damn book. LOL because Dixon and Brooklyn are the most stubborn couple I’ve ever written and for a while they refused to speak to me.

  But I’ve finally conquered Beaumont. The book is FINISHED! I hope you all love it. I’ve poured my heart and soul into this story for the last four months trying to get it perfect. No other book has stressed me out and sent me on the emotional roller coast like this one has.

  Thank you to my original street teamers and supports, Kayden’s Angels and Dixon’s Darlin’s. You girls are the reason I wrote so many Savannah books and why Brooklyn ever got a series in the first place. Now because of your support and love of these characters I’m plotting out a standalone for Xander and Jax! Eeekk!!!

  OMG I can’t even begin to thank Danielle’s Dames. You ladies are my everything. Without y’all I would disappear into oblivion in this book world. But you ladies work your asses off every single day keeping my name out there in the book world. Especially a huge thank you to my team captain Traci Hyland. I cannot say enough how much I appreciate every single thing that you do. You ladies over the last three years have become some of my bestest friends, not just fans. I appreciate everything you have done for me <3

  My always FANTASTIC BETA Readers! Amy, Tammi, Emma, Sophie, Charity, Danielle and Tabby I can’t thank you girls enough for all that you do! The most important one being supporting me no matter what I decide to write. You girls are always my biggest cheerleaders. So thank you! Your support and friendships mean the world to me.

  I cannot say thank you enough to my bad ass author friend and editor Silla Webb who kicked ass whipping this book into shape for me! You are a rock star! You kept me from completely giving up on this book. Because of your support and encouragement its finally finished.

  I need to give a big thank you to my family. My husband, for supporting this dream and doing everything from housework, to cooking, to traveling with me to signings, and patiently waiting every night for me to finally make it to bed after a long day of writing.

  My girls, Madison and Bailey, for being such big helpers! They help so much with chores and helping keep Finn happy. I don’t know what I’d do with my amazing girls who are mommy’s biggest cheerleaders.

  A shout out to my bestie Sophie Monroe who is always there whenever I need her. No matter the time or day, if I text you and need you to cheer me up or whip my ass into gear, you’re always there for me.

  To Danielle #2 AKA Danielle Pearl. I met you in Ft.Lauderdale at the Wicked Book Weekend signing and ever since you’ve been an amazing friend to me. Your support and encouragement means the world to me.

  I especially want to say THANK YOU! To every single one of you who support me and purchased this book! You will never know how appreciative I am for the support I receive from every single one of you.

  If you can please rate and review this novel on Goodreads and the site you purchased it from to help share Brooklyn and Dixon’s books with the reader world, I would truly appreciate it.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales, is entirely coincidental.

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  Betting on Beaumont

  Book 3 in the Brooklyn Series

  Betting on Beaumont is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  2016 Danielle Jamie eBook edition

  Copyright © 2016 Danielle Jamie Wright

  All Rights Reserved

  ISBN-13: 9781524240240

  Published in the United States by Danielle Wright, Mineville NY

  Cover Design by: Perfect Pear Creative Covers

  Edited by: Silla Webb- Masque of the Red Pen

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  More Books by Danielle Jamie

  The Savannah Series:

  Irresistible Desire

  Inescapable Desire

  Indestructible Desire

  Infinite Desire

  Southern Desire

  Savannah’s Desire

  The Brooklyn Series:

  Wasted Love

  Heart of Dixon

  Betting on Beaumont

  Tempt Series:

  Tempt My Heart

  A Tempting Christmas

  Rebel Hearts (coming 2017)

  The Stepbrother Series:

  Forbidden

  Untouchable

  Rapture

  Coming Soon a NEW Stepbrother Series book 1 Treacherous

  Sweet Home Alabama Series:

  Mine Would Be You

  Just South of Heaven (Emelyn and Lawson’s wedding & honeymoon available now in the Mouth 2 Anthology)

  Playing With Fire (Tucker’s book out this fall!)

  Happy Endings Resort Series:

  *Each book can be read alone there’s TONS of books in this series from many authors*

  Book 2 in the series is Anywhere with You

  a standalone by Danielle Jamie

  Christmas Wish- a Holiday Standalone

  Tease Me:

  A collection of Firsts in a Series sneak peeks from Danielle Jamie

  Chasing Carolina Series:

  Just for the Summer

  Tan Lines & Salty Kisses

  Wishing for Tomorrow (a new standalone out this summer)

  Chapter 1

  -Brooklyn

  The last few days I’ve tried to work up the courage to finally tell Jax that I just want to be friends. He’s so sweet, so the last thing I want to do is hurt him. I’ve spent the entire flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas trying to work up the courage to finally talk to him. I’ve done well avoiding this topic at all costs since returning from Hawaii.

  It makes it even harder when I can’t talk to Savannah about it. After the way things blew up between Dixon and I, she’s been all ‘Team Jax’. I’m afraid that she’ll be disappointed in me for giving Dixon another chance.

  I’ve battled with myself for a week over this decision. Sure, when I balance the pros and cons of Jax and Dixon, the
smart choice is Jax. He’s the safe choice. But when I listen to what my heart is telling me, it’s saying that it wants Dixon. All of this is so new to me. It’s like I’m venturing into unknown territory here. I’m used to casually dating guys. With that, you don’t have to deal with all this crazy drama. If Dixon didn’t make me so damn crazy without him in my life, I’d cut my losses and move on. But no matter how hard I’ve tried, the man is simply impossible to move on from.

  He’s been blowing my phone up ever since I texted him, informing him that Savannah and I were flying to Vegas to track down Kayden. He’s relieved they’re going to kiss and make up because he said Kayden’s been a miserable asshole since the day Savannah left. It didn’t take long for the conversation to swiftly shift to Jax. He’s adamant that as soon as I land in Vegas, I’m to find Jax and break things off with him.

  How the hell did I get myself into this situation? Being shoved into a damn love triangle between two friends— no less— is not how I imagined my life. I don’t want to hurt Jax, but I feel like that’s what is going to happen once I break it to him that I’m not into him that way. I dread confessing to him that I want to see where Dixon and I go from here.

  It’s all one big mess, and I find myself wishing I could climb back onto the airplane, go back to my parents’ house and hide out in my blanket fort. Where I can pretend that my life isn’t a big freaking mess.

  Since I can’t do that, instead I’m diving head first into the sand as I put off talking to Jax as long as I can while I focus on helping Savannah fix things with Kayden. Once things with them are smoothed over, then I’ll tackle the situation of talking to Jax.

  “Wow. Talk about swanky.” I find myself getting dizzy as I try to take everything in as we enter Kayden’s penthouse. This place is hands down the nicest suite I’ve ever stepped foot in. He’s slumming it compared to his Penthouse suite back in Houston. I don’t even want to think about the amount of money it would cost to book this suite for a night.

  Shutting the door behind her, Savannah lets out a sigh of relief. “It is really nice. Being Vegas it’s no shocker that it’s this over the top. I’m just glad the guys are all out so we have time to clean up. I feel like I smell like airplane food right now. I’m going to take a quick shower. How about you?” she asks as she walks across the marble foyer, wheeling her luggage behind her that the bell hop brought up for us.

  “Once we find the showers, I’m definitely taking one. Then after we get all dolled up, Mission: Reunite Kavannah will be set into motion.”

  Savannah cracks up laughing as she raises her eyebrows up toward the ceiling. “Kavannah? Did you just try to Branjelina Kayden and me?”

  Shrugging my shoulder’s, I give her a questionable look as I furrow my brows together. “What? You don’t like it. What about Savayden? It has a nice ring to it, too.”

  “How about neither. But it did feel good to laugh just now, though. So thanks for that.”

  “I’m glad I made you laugh. Just my opinion, I really like Kavannah.”

  Shaking her head, Savannah walks through the suite as she attempts to find a bathroom.

  “With your love life recently, you’d have a handful of stupidly-cute nicknames. Brookxon or Dixlyn for you and Dixon. Jaxlyn for Jax or BroJax is kind of funny, too. Ohh and we can’t forget bad boy rocker, Xander.” She glances at me over her shoulder before turning the corner and walking down a long hallway filled with doors. “You two could be Xanlyn…I can’t think of anything else because his name is too hard to rhyme things with.” The amusement and sarcasm in her voice is evident.

  “You have quite the knack for coming up with these celebrity couple nicknames. You should so do an article in Envy about the crazy and cute couple names in Hollywood.”

  Rolling her eyes and making a gagging sound as she dramatically sticks her tongue out, she tells me, “How about not.”

  After walking around for a few minutes scoping the place out, we finally find the master bedroom and an unoccupied guest room so we get cleaned up.

  Before climbing in the shower I send Dixon a quick text:

  We just got into Kayden’s penthouse. This place is off the hook. I don’t think I ever want to leave! Where u guys at?? We’re going to shower quick then try to find u guys.

  Not wanting to waste time waiting to hear back from Dixon—because let’s face it—they’re in Vegas! I won’t hold my breath on hearing right back from him. I texted him this morning on our way to the airport and it took him almost an hour to get back to me because they were all out to breakfast at the restaurant downstairs and he’d forgotten his phone in his room.

  Stripping out of my leggings and top, I toss them onto the floor and turn on the shower. Climbing under the warm, relaxing spray of water, I try to push the racing thoughts of Dixon and Jax from my mind. I’m going to drive myself crazy if I don’t stop stressing over this.

  I try to let the music playing from my phone distract me, but I swear every damn song that comes on reminds me of Dixon.

  There’s no denying it. I have it bad for him. Which screams DANGEROUS in bright neon fricking colors.

  Letting him have this kind of power of my body and emotions is risky. Because with Dixon, you never know what you’re going to get. I’m terrified that this is going to blow up in my face somehow.

  There’s just something about Dixon that makes me think ‘proceed with caution’ every time I’m around him. I’ve never given a man my heart because I’ve never had the desire to. But for the first time in my life, I think I may actually be falling in love.

  Of course, I have to fall for the biggest player of all time who has the power and the ability to shred my heart to pieces.

  Swinging my hips, I sing along with Alex Clare as I belt out “Too Close: and curl my hair when Savannah appears in the bathroom looking drop dead gorgeous.

  “Look at you, hot stuff. I don’t think you’re going to get a word in when we find the guys. Kayden will be too busy devouring you,” I joke, letting out a flirty, “Rawrrr,” as I pretend to swipe my claws at her.

  “One can only hope. I can’t wait to put all this drama behind us and focus on planning our wedding and just being happy.”

  I set the curling iron down and grab my phone turning down the music. “I hope so too, girly. After everything with Zak and Jacob and then Giselle with her Nadia bullshit, you two deserve to be happy.”

  “I’m all ready when you are. Can you text Jax and see where they are? I don’t want to text Kayden and ask because I want to surprise him.”

  “Sure,” I lie. I’m avoiding letting Jax know I am anywhere near Las Vegas until after I have a few shots of liquid courage flowing through my veins. Instead, I’m using Dixon to get all the deets on him and the guys.

  “Thanks. I’m going to wait for you in the living room. You almost ready?”

  I finish spraying my curls with hairspray before answering her so that I don’t get hairspray in my mouth. Picking up the curling iron I finish my last strand of hair. “There. Done with my hair. I have to finish my makeup and then I’m ready to roll.”

  “Perfect. If you don’t hear back from Jax, we can try Dixon or Braxton. One of them has to have a damn cell phone on them.”

  “Don’t you worry. We’re going to find them and reunite you two love birds finally so everything can be right with the world once again.”

  I finish applying my makeup and head back into my room to dig through my oversized purse I brought on the plane. Dumping my bag onto my bed, I dig through the contents scattered. Finally, I find a spare hair tie, my favorite lip gloss, and my wallet, then stuff them all into the clutch I’ll be using for the night. Kneeling on the ground, I open up my suitcase filled with all of my shoes and begin dumping everything out as I try to decide on which shoes to wear.

  By the time I’m through getting dressed, the room looks like a tornado hit it—but my outfit is on point. I step into my heels and walk back into the bathroom to grab my phone and almost jump ou
t of my skin as it suddenly begins going off. “Clarity” by Zedd begins blasting throughout the bathroom, echoing off of the walls.

  Immediately, I know it’s Dixon and eagerly answer it. Butterflies invade my stomach as I press answer and hear his thick, raspy drawl hit my ears.

  “Hey!” I can’t hide the excitement in my voice as I answer.

  “Sorry I’m just getting back to you. We were out to dinner. We’re getting ready to leave now and head back to the hotel. There’s a party at the club tonight for one of our friends to celebrate his UFC fight in Vegas this weekend.”

  “Oh really, well sounds like you’re having a hell of a lot more fun than Savannah and me.”

  “Haa. It hasn’t been all fun. We hit the casino before dinner, and I lost a few grand. But I’m determined to win it back later tonight.”

  “Let’s hope I have better luck than you when I hit the tables later on. That’s one reason why I avoid Vegas. It’s so easy getting wrapped up in the fun of gambling. When you’re flying high and winning big it’s a lot of fun. But you always end up losing one way or another. I swear these places are rigged or something.”

  Dixon lets out another sexy chuckle that sends my heart fluttering in my chest. “Yeah, that’s why I have a love-hate relationship with Sin City. Well, the guys are waving at me to hurry up. Our driver just pulled up to the curb. I don’t know if they’re going to want to come up to the room for anything. So if you two plan on surprising Knox, I suggest y’all finish getting ready and get out of there.”

  “We’re all ready to go, so I’ll let Savannah know. Maybe we’ll go hang out at the slots or something for a bit. Once you guys are at the club, shoot me a text and we’ll come find you.”