the billionaire heartbeat

ky could have been labeled a

n. John Snow was most comf

took any interest in community

ty center on the Lower East Si

My colleague made a point of a

use supporting SnowCorp symbol

f he were being honest with h

. Not t

Emma Brooks, skimming throu

as enough beautiful, but her b

she would bend down to liste

ld hold a child's hand and lau

was radiance, definitely not fro

assion. John had always believe

om success and weal

sual confidence began to fade;

ith no notion of ambition for

preoccupied his world, and yet

r joy was in the small things,

with all that she touched; and i

tiv

and glanced up to see John. Befo

gently, warmly. It was a smile,

mething he, for some reason,

like this before, with this hon

tured for him

as hesitant, out of his element

to her she greeted him pleasant

to find you he

he chuckled, a bit awkwardly.

l, looking her in the face. "So I

one now a

inkled with a look of knowing.

one, with the enti

"Something like that." He looke

volunteers shooting food and

, unbelievably warm-a warmth he

his is wh

ll the time.' "They're the one

tory. I think there's a beauty in

't

He wanted to spew something s

nt a slightly different approach

hought of i

er gaze, Emma looked at him. "

uragement, as if she were aski

was so completely foreign to hi

fe has dollars to sell or buy.

, and they stood in silence, i

surrounded by wealth and luxury

had yet to be afflicted with t

ce, to have

do you find happiness in this

e people who, unlike him, were

be so...

reached out, tugging on his a

of a jolt through him, an unexp

t what you have,' she said to hi

are, it's about what you're ac

ss is something you give. That's

ask

g he had buried, a vague mem

efore he'd become successful be

st the vulnerabilities that his

dequacy coursing through his he

should have been

into the background, and in

ddle of what he didn't understa

is tightness in his chest. 'I don

his voice so small he

be a good thing, then." Instead,

rough him. "It could be that we

he

a shift within himself, he cou

wer and achieving success, and i

know was more about her way of

what he hadn'

he billionaire with an empire a

ma's presence... John. That