Billionaire's Valentine: A Valentine's Day short story by Gem Frost

Author:Gem Frost [Frost, Gem]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daylily Publishing
Published: 2018-02-01T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Val

I knew something was wrong. Blade’s body tensed up beneath my fingers, and his eyes went as hard as gold coins. He looked like he was bracing for a fight.

The music went on, but everyone around us stopped to stare as an older man approached us, shoving his way through the crowd and stepping on toes without apology. He had salt-and-pepper hair and lines around his eyes, but he was still a good-looking guy, if nothing compared to Blade. He was a couple inches shorter than I was, and a little… well, not fat, but blocky.

Blade let go of me—reluctantly, I thought—and turned to face the older guy. “Roger,” he said, and though his eyes were hard, his voice gave nothing away. He sounded coolly polite, almost indifferent, but I knew damn well he wasn’t.

“Blade.” The older man looked me over with insulting thoroughness, as if I was a horse he was considering buying. “I see you’ve replaced me… with an infant.”

Replaced him? I didn’t have time to figure that one out before Blade replied. His voice was a shade colder.

“You replaced me first, Roger.”

“Ah, yes, that little tryst at your birthday party. Surely you know that was simply a little peccadillo, Blade? My heart has always belonged to you… as yours has to me.”

These guys obviously had some sort of bitter personal history between them, and the gears in my confused brain began to work. Hurt began to swirl through me. So Blade hadn’t asked me out because he found me attractive after all. He’d needed a date to spite this guy—Roger.

“I don’t even remember that young man’s name,” Roger went on. “As you won’t remember this one’s name, after tomorrow. You know that as well as I do. But does he?”

The hurt inside me began to coalesce into something hot and angry. I guess it had been dumb to imagine that Blade really found me attractive, but after everything that had happened between us in the limo, I’d thought maybe—

But no. I was stupid. Young and naïve and stupid. Blade had just been using me to get back at this guy, and that was all. I was just an extra in a play starring these two men. Hell, not even an extra. I was just a prop.

Blade spoke softly, but firmly.

“I can assure you that I am never going to forget Val. Not ever.”

The words were spoken with a sincerity that cooled the heat inside me, and my brain began to work a little more logically. Of course it had been silly to imagine Blade really had a thing for me. But I remembered the way he’d held me in the limo, and I still felt pretty sure that no matter what his motives, he did feel some degree of attraction to me.

Anyway, if he’d brought me here to try to hurt Roger, I couldn’t object too much. Roger was clearly an asshole.

“Really? He’s that good in bed, is he?” Roger was not bothering to keep his voice down.

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