One Night With the Billionaire (Men of the Zodiac) by Sarah Ballance

One Night With the Billionaire (Men of the Zodiac) by Sarah Ballance

Author:Sarah Ballance [Ballance, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Women, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Entangled: Indulgence
Published: 2015-09-14T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter Nine

Three days and not one word from Ryder.

Fresh from the shower, Zoe dropped onto the sofa in their shared cabana and picked up the shirt he’d left lying there. In a move that was part stalker, part creeper, she held it to her chest and inhaled, living for a moment in his scent. Trying to push away the hurt she had no right to feel in the first place.

He hadn’t come home, and she hadn’t seen him on the island. He’d left a note saying the orders were coming in early and asking if she was willing to work with Aggie to check the shipment. When the plane arrived, Hector, Carson, and Neil unloaded it and took care of the heavier items, while she and Aggie dressed windows, made beds, and folded towels. Every linen she touched was sumptuous. Ryder truly had created a paradise, so why wasn’t he in it? She’d paced the room, paced the beach, thinking of him. Of his words.

Doesn’t matter.

Why wouldn’t it matter? He said he couldn’t legally discuss the ramifications of sleeping with her. If that was supposed to dissuade her from wondering, it backfired. A simple no thanks would have sufficed, but instead it wasn’t legal? No sane person could let something like that go, let alone her—an attorney.

Still, she’d killed her vibrator batteries thinking of his hands and mouth on her. Wracked her brain wondering what falling meant to him. Wondering how her life might have changed if she’d had the nerve to walk up to him a decade before and demand something for which she was still afraid to ask.

Make me scream, Ryder.

She missed him, the cloud of sex and seduction in which he seemed to exist. She gave herself every out. Tried to convince herself any man would do, that the fact she was too chicken to ask Aggie if there were any C batteries on the island was all that stood between Zoe and satisfaction. Tried to believe it had just been too long since anyone had truly wanted her. Coveted her. But the truth was, it had been far too long since she had wanted. Since her desires had had a face.

And now that face was gone, along with the rest of him.

It was going to be a long flight home. More and more, she wondered if she should take it.

There was nothing about them that could last, but if she could toss aside her perfectly orchestrated—until recently, anyway—life and just feel, just for one night, she’d deal with the fallout later. She’d put the pieces back together when the resort and the white sand and the equatorial sun were all distant memories. Proof she’d for once taken a chance—a chance that would be her sustenance when she returned to her boring existence. Funny how back then she thought she had everything. A wildly successful career at a top law firm that was destined to be hers. Engagement to a powerful, highly-respected man. An enviable address in the best part of town.



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