A Billionaire's Love by L M Lovett

Author:L M Lovett
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Maribel

I’m too lust drunk to keep exploring the city and showing David my haunts. He whisks me back to his home – our home? – and I admire the sight of behind the steering wheel.

I hadn’t planned on bringing him to Land’s End or even my favorite restaurant. In fact, I hadn’t visited those places in ages. My grief at my mom’s passing had dampened down my ties to everything and I had adapted by secluding myself in my apartment. It hurt too, going around to our old haunts, but more than anything I long to show David my world. I want him to dominate me and possess me fully. But I want my life to have value too.

We’ve had such as shockingly pleasant day and I don’t want to rock the boat. His hand is stroking my inner thigh and I’m so relaxed from him, our meal, and our fledgling connection.

But as we drive through the city and I see skyscrapers, I blurt out suddenly, “David, do I still have a job?”

“What?”

“I mean, am I fired?” I shift uncomfortably in my seat.

“There’s no need for you to work.”

“But what am I supposed to do when you’re gone?” I had thought I felt him softening, letting himself relax his rigid rules, but now every each of his frame radiates rage.

“Maribel, you don’t work. I won’t have you in my office. I won’t have people whispering about you.”

“Because it’s so hard to believe? I know that you are out of my league.” Tears are threatening to spill down my face. I try to reign in the tears. I want him to understand that I need my life on my own terms. “I’m realizing that my life has been so small these past years and I don’t want it to shrink even more.”

“I would hardly say moving from a squalid hovel into my mansion is a downgrade,” he hisses.

I tense miserably. “That’s not what I mean.”

“I didn’t realize you felt so stifled.”

“David, stop, what’s not what I’m saying. Can you just listen, please?”

“I don’t see what there is still left to say.”

When we pull up through the long driveway, my heart is my throat. I wish I hadn’t brought the job up, but I still needed to know what my future is going to look like. I’m not a billionaire. I’m drowning in student loans and only have a small nest egg.

I’ve explained myself so poorly. But I need him to understand. And I need him to listen. To understand that I need security and trust and that it takes time for those qualities to grow. Beside, despite his words and the passionate way he worships my body, I can’t help but feel that he will tire of me. He could have anyone he pleases. How many castoff lovers does he have?

We are both icily cool as we walk into the house.

By the time I reach the kitchen I am moved by a sense of urgency. I can’t let this lie. We need to fix this now or never.

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