Billionaire Games by Frasier Kristin

Author:Frasier, Kristin [Frasier, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-02-22T08:00:00+00:00

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“Get in.”

It was difficult, almost impossible, really, for him to get the words out, but somehow he managed. Claire flinched and for a moment looked on the verge of protest. He felt his face pulling into a tight grimace, one that must have communicated his emotions more than his words ever would, because without protesting, Claire got into the vehicle.

Simeon didn’t look at her.

He couldn’t.

His rage was too great for that.

His relief was even greater.

After he’d reached his realization at his office, he’d delayed his return, telling himself that he didn’t want to see her, telling himself that knowing she was there, waiting on him, subject to her desires as he had been to hers for so very long, was satisfaction enough.

Lies, of course, as this afternoon had proved. Lies he’d tried to live with for each excruciating second that had passed. His distraction this afternoon with Nathaniel was typical of how he’d been recently.

Simeon hadn’t been able to focus on business. He hadn’t been able to sleep, thoughts of her far too close to allow his mind to relax. And it only got worse with each day, each minute, and when his assistant had asked if he was okay, Simeon knew he’d reached his breaking point.

He did need rest, and he suspected that he’d only find the peace to sleep after spending himself inside Claire. So after a few more hours of futile attempts at working, he’d gone to the penthouse, still trying to tell himself that this was all part of his game, just another move, but all the while unable to quell his excitement at the prospect of seeing her and his anxiousness to be with her, to spend time with her.

When he’d opened the door, he’d known she was gone. The air was still, the place the empty mausoleum it had been before she had arrived. For a moment, he’d tried to convince himself she was on the balcony, maybe in the bathroom, but one step across the threshold, and he’d known she wasn’t there.

His heart had twisted in his chest, the pain swift and intense until he pushed it away, hating himself for allowing her to do this to him again.

It reminded him of those dark days from the past, in the immediate aftermath of what she’d done to him.

He could still see it now, so vividly recall the expression on her face when he’d told her it was time for him to move on. Had seen the crushing disappointment there, the disbelief.

But here, in this luxury penthouse, one that he had finally admitted to himself that he’d bought just because he knew she would like the view, he wasn’t thinking about that.

Instead he remembered those days immediately after, when he’d gone back to his own shitty apartment, even more shitty than hers had been, when the force of what he had done and the impact of it had hit him full force.

He’d never let her come to that apartment, not wanting her to see

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