Mr. Hotshot CEO by Jackie Lau

Author:Jackie Lau [Lau, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781775304715
Publisher: Jackie Lau
Published: 2018-07-10T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Courtney

On Fridays I have lunch with Bethany, a post doc in the lab next to mine. We either go out for sushi or banh mi. Today we’re having the latter.

“How’s your son?” I ask as we walk to the restaurant.

Bethany has a two-year-old who seems allergic to the idea of sitting still for more than two seconds.

“I got him to eat broccoli last night,” she says. “It’s a miracle. Of course, it was in between running around with a box on his head and dumping Duplo all over the floor.”

Now that I’m in my thirties, most people my age are settling down and having kids, and they often aren’t available to go out on Friday and Saturday nights. Though I’m happy to go to their houses and hang out with their kids and try not to swear, it’s not the same as when I was younger. It’s harder to avoid spending the weekend alone, something which isn’t great for my mental health.

But this weekend and next weekend, I have Julian.

Bethany and I reach the banh mi place on Yonge and place our orders. Pork belly for me, as always. We’re lucky to get a seat by the window, but before Bethany unwraps her sandwich, she pulls her blonde hair back in a ponytail and looks at me curiously.

“Something’s different about you,” she says. “I’m not sure what, but something is definitely different.”

When we had sushi together last Friday, I hadn’t even met Julian yet. I’d admired him from a distance at Chris’s Coffee Shop, but that was all.

So much has changed since then.

I have a bite of my delicious sandwich. “You’re never going to believe what happened.”

I tell her about meeting Julian and our deal and moving in with him. She hasn’t heard of his family before, but penthouse-owning CEO gets the point across. I also mention that we’ve started sleeping together.

When I finish my story, she looks at me with wide eyes.

“Wow,” she says. “Wow. This is actually happening to my friend. When do I get to meet this man of yours? And does he have any hot friends?”

“He has a brother who made a fortune selling his tech start-up, but last time I checked, you were still married.”

“Details, details.” Bethany waves this off as though it’s not important, and we laugh. “What’s going to happen when the two weeks are over?”

“It’s just a fling. When the two weeks are over, it’s over.”

She raises her eyebrows. “Is it?”

“Yes,” I say. “It is.”

* * *

I wake up at four in the morning, Julian asleep beside me. This is my third night in his bed. The past two nights, I didn’t think about the future at all. I just focused on the present, on having great sex for the first time in years.

Now, perhaps because of my conversation with Bethany, I think about what will happen at the end of next weekend. I told myself I deserve some fun, which is true, but I also told myself it would be easy to get over him, even if there were pesky feelings involved.

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