MASON (Billionaire Bastards, Book One) by Ivy Carter

Author:Ivy Carter [Carter, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Favor Ford Publishing
Published: 2017-05-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 33

Bypassing Misty, I storm through to the office where day traders tap away at their cubicles. Not one of them bothers to look up at me, all engrossed in their work.

Now that I’ve quit this job, I’m back to square one. The one perfect trade I made Mason doesn’t even fucking know about, so I can’t even add it to my resume. My career in finance has come to an abrupt end. That’ll sure make Mom proud.

Blinded by rage, I weave through the workstations, my hackles rising with every ping or telephone ringing. I’ve wanted to be a part of this world for as long as I can remember, but now, I just want to get home.

Back to my apartment.

The exit sign looms, a glowing beacon of freedom. I’ll take the back stairs to avoid the elevator. The workout will do me some good, give me a chance to clear my head and figure out next steps.

“Olivia! Wait!”

Mason’s voice freezes me in place. I can feel the weight of more than a dozen eyes on me. My spine stiffens. I don’t want to turn around, but his presence pulls at me like a marionette.

Slowly, I pivot, and gasp when I see him running toward me. His shirt is wrinkled, untucked. There’s a look if desperation in his eyes. It’s like he’s come unhinged.

My pulse spikes.

Every cell in my body screams at me to run away, but I’m paralyzed under his stare.

“Liv, listen,” he says, breathless. In my peripheral vision I can see that no one is working, as though his voice has somehow frozen time. Hands hover over keyboards, cell phones linger mid-air, jaws hang open. His voice cuts through the deafening silence. “You saved this company.” He comes right up to me, closes his hand around my wrist. “I went through my trading history,” he says, “and it’s so damn obvious that I was the one who fucked up. I could have lost the company untold millions of dollars. But you intervened and you saved my ass.”

“I tried to tell you,” I say, so quiet it’s almost a whisper. I’m not comfortable under the spotlight, and a room full of shocked employees hearing every word we say to each other.

“I was blind,” he says. He lifts my chin so that our eyes connect. “But my eyes are wide open now, Liv. I wasn’t able to see, to allow for what was happening right under my nose. But the truth is, Liv, I love you. I’m in love with you.”

My head goes fuzzy. “Love?”

I blink, positive that he’s about to disappear, that this is all just a figment of my imagination, some final cruel joke. But he’s not gone. He’s moved closer, and there’s a tenderness in his expression that makes my knees buckle.

“It’s true,” he says, taking my shaking hands in his. “I need you. The industry needs you. I was wrong to say you’re not cut out to be a day trader.” He gives me that boyish grin that ratchets up my pulse.

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