Forbidden to the Billionaire--3 Book Box Set by Caitlin Crews

Author:Caitlin Crews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

WHY DID DOING the right thing feel so awful, Louise wondered as she slung a week’s worth of washing into the machine in her basement. She swiped her card and leaned against the machine, exhausted since she hadn’t slept much in the week since she’d last seen Jaiven. Seen the desolation and remorse on his face when she’d told him he couldn’t fix it. Watched him walk away, that one tear still snaking its way down her cheek.

Felt her heart break. Again.

She shouldn’t care this much, she told herself over and over again. She barely knew the man. All right, the sex had been incredible, but that’s all it had been. Sex.

Liar. It was more for Jaiven and it was more for you, too.

A truth she couldn’t escape. A truth that tormented her because even though she was filled with both longing and regret she knew she’d meant what she’d said. Jaiven couldn’t make this right. There were some things you couldn’t go back from. And with her history, she couldn’t be with a man who had made her feel as sickened and humiliated as Jaiven had in that moment. Couldn’t move past it, couldn’t risk ever feeling it again. It was, unfortunately, as simple as that.

She just wished it were more complicated.

Her cell buzzed in the back pocket of her jeans, and she fished it out, half hoping and half dreading it was Jaiven. She shouldn’t want him to call, and he had no reason to call. She’d sent him away and Jaiven didn’t seem like the type to keep coming back for more.

In any case, as she glanced at the screen of her phone, she saw it was Chelsea.

“Hey.”

“Hi, can you meet me?”

“Today?”

“Yes, if possible. I’m at my place. How about we meet at the park, Ninety-Sixth Street entrance?”

It was Saturday morning, and Louise had no more plans than filling her fridge and doing her laundry. “Okay.” Trepidation fluttered inside her. “Have you found out something about Harlow?”

“Something,” Chelsea answered, and she sounded somber. “But not much. Meet me in an hour, okay?”

With her wash still spinning Louise headed back upstairs to her apartment. She took a copy of Harlow’s thesis from a file folder and started reading it yet again.

Since meeting with Chelsea, she’d read Harlow’s one-hundred-page treatise to end sex trafficking with something close to alarm. It was a finely argued, impassioned presentation, and she’d given it an A-last year. Now, however, she was reading it through a different lens, imagining Harlow taking matters into her own hands.

But how?

The thesis concerned the use of disadvantaged women to fuel Europe and North America’s sex trade. Had Harlow actually got mixed up in something like that while in London? Something that involved a crony of Treffen’s? It was terrible to contemplate, and yet Chelsea had obviously discovered something about Harlow’s disappearance.

An hour later Louise threw on some jeans and a sweatshirt and walked the few blocks to the park. Chelsea was already waiting, looking low-key glamorous in skinny jeans and a cashmere top and scarf, two coffees and a bag of bagels in her hand.

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