Rescued by the Billionaire by Lisa Kaatz

Author:Lisa Kaatz [Kaatz, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

7

I sobbed into shaking hands as I sat hunched over the toilet with my pants around my ankles. It figured that the first day at my new job would go so horrible. Not only did I spill coffee all over my shirt this morning (replaced, thank god, with an extra uniform shirt that Jeffrey had in his car), but I’d also managed to drop a tray full of champagne glasses on a customer.

The customer was upset but understanding, especially after I comped his meal - which the manager grimly explained would be coming out of my first paycheck. This place was pricey, which meant that my first paycheck was already cut nearly in half. At this rate, I wouldn’t be able to make rent.

Not for the first time since I’d dropped that envelope in the mailbox, I wondered if I shouldn’t have sent Lincoln’s money back.

Lincoln. Thinking about him again just made me sob even harder. Because it was just my luck that after the hellish day I’d had on the job, who else would walk in but Lincoln. With some glittery, gilded bitch hanging on his arm, no less.

What did she have that I didn’t? Well for starters, giant breasts. I was pretty sure they were fake. No, I was certain that they were. Those things defied gravity. Not to mention that they didn’t match her stick-thin frame at all.

Fine. If that was what Lincoln was into, then that was just fine. But then, why had he made out with me at his house?

Maybe he did this with a lot of women. Why had I allowed myself to begin to think that I might be special to him? That I might matter to him? I’d wondered about Lincoln’s motives. What I didn’t say aloud is that part of me thought - hoped - that he was motivated by feelings for me.

Seeing him and her together tonight, I realized how ridiculous I had been.

And yeah. He’d left messages on my phone. But they’d sounded professional and stiff, cold and robotic.

“Abby. It’s Lincoln. We still need to discuss your portfolio. I have some pending references for you that I think closely align with what you are searching for in your next opportunity. Call me back.”

“Abby. It’s Lincoln. You left your coat at my house. Let me know what you want to do with it. If I don’t hear back from you in a few days, I will donate it to a consignment shop..”

“Abby. It’s Lincoln. I have a referral for you, per our agreement. Call me back so that we can discuss.”

It was all so sterile. So removed. As though he wasn’t the same man who had pushed me up against the wall and kissed me. As though I wasn’t the same woman whose naked body he’d caressed.

It was like it hadn’t mattered to him at all.

And now he was here. At my job. With her. And I was supposed to be waiting on them.

I dried my face with some tissue and stood up, tucking my oversized dress shirt into my slacks and zipping them back up.

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