Boss Me, Bind Me - A Billionaire Romance by Layla Valentine & Ana Sparks

Author:Layla Valentine & Ana Sparks [Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Donna

I tried to make conversation as we drove, but Carter wasn’t having it. He seemed tense, distracted.

Finally, I asked him, “Which site are we headed to?”

His response came back as immediately, as if I’d pressed a button: “The McCarter site.”

When I asked which one that was, staring out the window at some abandoned houses we were passing, Carter shrugged.

“Not sure, actually. It’s good land, a perfect path for the pipeline—if it weren’t for the protestors, of course.”

I glared at him. He had seemed to say it expressly to bother me, and yet, he wasn’t looking at me at all. Instead, still gazing out the window, now at a small stream, he continued.

“There have been so many protests at our pipeline sites, I’ve lost track.”

I countered, “Doesn’t that make you think? That there might be something wrong with where your company wants to build these pipelines?”

A furrow appeared in Carter’s brow.

“This was my father’s plan, his master project. On his deathbed, I promised him I’d do it.”

That admission shut me right up. How was I supposed to argue with that? The following silence, however, after a whole two days of breathless fun, was nearly unbearable.

Finally, before I could think better of it, I said, “You’ve never mentioned your father before.”

As he stared out at the edge of the now forest-covered land, I scrutinized his dead gaze.

“Yes. He died last year. He was a good man, a hard worker.”

Another pause. Then I said, “And when your mom…”

“They didn’t get along,” he said brusquely. “Only ten minutes until we’re there.”

Carter was right, but that didn’t make the quiet, tense wait feel any closer to ten minutes. By the time his car finally, thankfully, pulled up onto the side of the road, it felt more like several hours had passed rather than mere minutes.

In gloomy silence, we got out of the car and walked over to the site with its already visible mob.

Seeing them, Carter gave a sardonic smile.

“Should’ve figured there’d be protestors at this one, too. It’s not like these people have any real causes to support or anything actually productive to do.”

I stopped walking.

“What did you say?”

Carter turned to me with that same ugly sneer.

“You heard me. If these people had decent jobs, do you really think they’d be here, wasting their time with what’s inevitable?”

His face was all narrowed, sharp planes, almost unrecognizable. I didn’t care. I was so mad that I could barely speak.

Advancing toward him, shaking my head, I said, “You’re wrong.” It was all I could manage. His sneer deepened.

“And how would you know?”

I stepped forward so our chests were touching, so I could glare right into his narrowed, hateful eyes.

“Because, babe, I’ve protested at several of your pipeline sites. That’s right; I’ve protested your unethical, nature-destroying atrocities.”

To this, Carter said nothing, and I continued. “And what you said about it being inevitable—I thought you agreed to reroute some of them. You called one of your guys right in front of me.”

Carter’s face was still that unrecognizable, remote mask, like he was a robot or a frozen corpse.

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