The Grumpy Billionaire and His Dad’s Cheerful Next Door Neighbor - Short and Sweet Series, #42

I was having a dream with an unknown girl leading me into the water at a beach. But the more I dreamed the more she morphed into the woman that had surprised me in the kitchen. And then she slowly came closer and everything was so silent. All I could do was focus on her lips. She cupped my face and leaned into kiss me and then... She licked me?And it's only after the third lick that I woke up and realized someone was licking me.
I opened my eyes and there was... A dog?My dad doesn't have a dog. I jerked up and screamed and the dog moaned and ran away out of my room. I wiped my mouth and bolted out of the door and down the stairs after the dog."Come here, you mutt!" ALEC has always had big dreams and after years of hard work he finally became the billionaire he always wanted to be. But his obsession with working hard has caused multiple relationships to fail. HEIDI has tried hard to run away from her past and the things she'd rather not remember.
No one in town knows her real history. Working at the diner in town she wants more than anything just to have a normal life away from rich people and money. She knows what's down that path. When Alec goes home after another relationship ends he's not looking forward to be around his dad who he's never had a good relationship with. But when he enters his childhood home he finds a strange woman with a knife. Turns out the woman is his dad's next door neighbour. But Alec and doesn't hit it off with Heidi initially and the woman's positivity and cheerfulness works on his nerves at first.
But the more he gets to know her the more she, and her dog, Scout, crawls into his heart. And soon he can understand why his dad has changed so much. But when Alec finds out about her past doubts start setting in and soon he has a hard decision to make.