The Billionaire's Badass Wife (Perfect Bride series, v.2) by Katherine Summers

Author:Katherine Summers [Summers, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

They finished up a whole bottle fifteen minutes later.

Jim was barely able to stand, whereas Miya’s head buzzed. She was half sprawled on the table with her head down, while barely remaining seated on the chair in front of Jimmy. They shouldn’t have drunk up the alcohol neat, she told herself listlessly.

Jim, on the other hand, had begun to stare grudgingly at the water.

“Do you think it will turn green?” he asked her the fifth time and with a lot of annoyance, “If I pour this bottle into the river?”

“P-Pool,” Miya reminded him weakly again, “It – It’s a pool.”

“B-But… Okay. Will it turn green?”

“Nope.”

Miya struggled to keep her thoughts coherent when she raised her head and concentrated on Jim. The act hurt her brain, almost as if someone was drilling through her skull from all four sides. She hadn’t been this drunk in ages. But thanks to that, she had somehow found the courage to question the young master further.

“She didn’t say anything to you?” Her voice was a dark mumble.

The thought had been haunting her since before.

Jim looked away from the water, and stared at her in confusion.

“What?”

Miya frowned as well. Was she asking correctly?

She focussed again.

“I m-mean, didn’t Zaila s-say anything to you? The last time she was awake… only, where’s mom?”

Jim shook his head.

“Nothing. Just that.”

“What happened then? Did y-your mom – Mrs. Hunter return?”

“I haven’t seen her since then.”

“T-Then could she be…?”

“No… she’s alive.”

Miya’s head hurt again, and her heart hurt even more. She didn’t like this side of Jimmy Hunter at all, this persistent being who was talking to her like dead meat. No, dead meat didn’t talk…

How did the saying go?

She couldn’t remember. And she never forgot her sayings!

Damn.

“Didn’t you try to find her?”

“Why should I?”

“And the Chairman? Did he –”

“I never asked.”

Miya sighed. She was ready to slump down on the table once more, when Jim took in a deep breath and began to say something again. Miya sat up as straight as she could to listen to him alertly.

“M-Mom became a buried topic after that. Mom and Zaila both,” Jim was looking directly into her eyes, “F-Father never forgave me for my slip up that night. And I couldn’t f-forgive him for not doing anything about my mother.”

“What slip up, Jimmy?” Miya was afraid.

“I slept when she ran off and slipped from the stairs. Had I been more careful, Zaila wouldn’t have been able to step out of the room, Miya.”

“It wasn’t your fault.”

“Who else? I was bloody sixteen. And I let the girl die.”

“It wasn’t your fault.”

“It was. But it was Simon Hunter’s too. I warned him about Zaila and his woman getting too close. I told him to do something about it! He didn’t.”

Miya flinched at Jimmy’s words, at the name of the Chairman that slipped from the young man’s tongue. His voice had held poison.

“Everything went downhill from then,” he said bitterly, “We didn’t speak about it. I wanted to apologize to Chairman. Park says he was sorry too.

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