Billionaire's Paradise Virgin by Cassandra Bloom

Author:Cassandra Bloom [Bloom, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cassandra Bloom
Published: 2017-04-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The next day passed uneventfully for both of them. Lucy went to work and Derek caught up with emails and Skype conferences. In a way, it felt good to close this strange chapter in their lives and get back to normal.

Yet, they each checked their phones a lot more than usual, just to see if a message had popped up from the other. As the balmy day in paradise ended neither had the courage to send a message to the other.

Lucy was sitting eating an all-day breakfast with her friend Anna the next day in a small restaurant run by an exuberant Scottish woman.

Eating bacon, sausages and beans at mid-day on a Spanish island in the middle of summer felt wrong on so many levels but that only seemed to make the greasy feast taste more delicious to them.

A British quiz show was on the TV and the girls once again had the disorienting feeling of being in Britain and Spain at the same time. Maybe this is what life would be like if the UK miraculously drifted down to the Mediterranean one day.

Lucy was startled when her phone started ringing. Her new ring tone was a Spanish dance tune and it turned a few heads as it blared out at full volume over the sound of the contestants who were struggling to name the world’s longest river.

“The Nile, you fools. Who’s calling you at this time of day? Don’t they know we’re hard working lasses?” Anna knew nothing about the events of the other nights but her sixth sense had already warned her that her childhood friend was hiding something big.

“The phone. Oh. It’s just a…friend from…there…” She let her voice tail off as she stepped outside onto the sand. God, wasn’t it just fabulous to be on the beach as soon you stepped out of any building here?

“Hello?”

“Lucy. This is Derek. Err, the guy from the other night. Derek Serrano. The American.” A few words in and he was already babbling. For a billionaire who had just torn a strip off his high-powered executive team for losing a million on the stock market it was crazy to be acting like a silly little boy with a young waitress.

“I remember. Did you make the meeting on time?” It was meant to come off as a light, playful joke but Lucy hated hearing the sarcasm and hurt dripping off her own voice.”

“Yes.” An awkward pause. Why had he phoned instead of going there to talk face to face?

“How’s the yacht? I trust your mansion back home in New Hampshire is being well looked after too.” Lucy put a hand on her forehead in despair. This was the worst phone call ever.

“They’re both as fine as inanimate objects can be I guess. I see you had a chat with our old friend Mr Google.”

“Yes. You can look me up too if you like. You might find a nice picture of me chilling with Justin Bieber or laughing with Ryan Gosling just like you were dancing and flirting with Jennifer Lawrence last week.

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