Baby Bet by Ana Sparks & Layla Valentine

Author:Ana Sparks & Layla Valentine [Sparks, Ana & Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Kyle

I walked up the path toward the door, adjusting my watch and the sleeves of my suit as I went. I didn’t make a habit of going to two Gatherings in a row, but for some reason, I’d felt compelled to come to this one.

I had only been back in L.A. for a few days, but the city seemed to be lacking in luster. I needed something that would spark my energy, and this was the best thing I could think of doing.

I had tried going to bars to pick up girls, and I had tried going to more sophisticated venues when I’d found that I wasn’t satisfied with the bar scene. I had done the same thing in New York, and Tokyo. But the end result had always been the same.

Each girl that I hooked up with had the same story as all the other uninteresting girls I had been with in the past. They were all looking for something or running for something, and I had no interest in giving it to them or saving them from whatever it was. It seemed that the sex I was having was lacking something—something I didn’t know it was lacking before.

It didn’t seem to matter who my partner was—even finding the hottest girl in whatever venue did nothing to make me feel wanted, even when we were in bed together.

Even when the sex itself was fantastic and we both got what we wanted out of the session, I found myself lying awake and staring at the ceiling, thinking that there had to be something more to life than what I had.

It wasn’t my job; my company was doing better than ever, and its success looked set to continue. If my next deal came through—and I was confident that it would—I would become one of the wealthiest individuals on the planet. I would have my pick when it came to anything in life—there would be nothing to stop me.

But yet, every night when I thought about what that really meant, it seemed so pointless.

Not long ago, I’d had another battle with the tabloids over some girl I had been seeing in New York. The entire situation was rather entertaining, I thought, as the girl had meant nothing to me except someone I could meet in a hotel room when I was bored in town. Of course, I never brought her back to my room; I would always secure some location where we were less likely to be caught by the photographers.

But the paparazzi were getting smarter and more determined, and regardless of my biggest efforts to keep things under wraps and out of the public eye, it wasn’t long before the photos were published.

Usually, such things didn’t bother me, but lately, something had changed.

For some reason I didn’t quite understand, I felt that I should hide the story or somehow discredit it. I knew I could file a lawsuit against the paper, but that would only add to the scandal and make me all the more the object of public attention, which was the last thing I wanted to happen.

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