The Billionaire's Mistress 2: Alpha Billionaire Romance (The Billionaires's Mistress) by M. S. Parker

Author:M. S. Parker [Parker, M. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belmonte Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Allie

Taken…he’s taken, I told myself again as Jal topped off my glass of wine.

We were still in the limo, waiting in line in front of the event venue, and while things were moving slowly, I didn’t mind the wait. In fact, I was having more fun being stuck inside the limousine than I really had a right to. When it was just the two of us like this, I could almost forget about how different we were.

When Jal asked me more about the dream I had for opening my salon, I wondered how he’d even managed to get me to talk about it in the first place. I never talked about it. My mom didn’t know. Tao didn’t even know. It had been one of those things I'd always kept hidden away.

Until I'd somehow let it slip while talking to Jal.

“It’s just a dream, Mr. Lindstrom,” I said, offering a polite smile.

“Call me by my name, Allie.”

“Okay, Allie,” I parroted back easily.

Calling him by his name made things too easy, too intimate. He gave me a sigh of mock exasperation just as the car came to a stop and the door opened. I hoped I'd be able to get away without him asking again. Just the feel of his name in my mouth made my stomach twist.

There was a flash of cameras as I let him help me from the car, the brilliant lights enough to almost distract me from the feel of my hand in his.

“Steady,” Jal murmured as he wrapped my arm around his. “Just smile and walk. Don’t stop to talk to anybody and it will be over soon.”

That sounded a lot of like smile and think of England, I thought. My mom had told me that story once, and it'd always made me laugh. Now was no different, and I felt the laughter bubbling up again. I managed to stop it before it came out, knowing it would just sound hysterical, and that was the last thing I wanted.

Several people called his name and a few times, we stopped for pictures. Every time we stopped, the questions got worse, but he was gifted at being able to move along without giving them anything.

“You do this a lot?” I asked quietly as we kept walking.

“Not too often,” he said. “There are more reporters here than usual because there’s a rumor that a movie star's supposed to drop by to endorse TomorrowU.”

We stopped just inside where he spoke quietly to somebody at the door, then shot me a smile.

The warm tingles that went through me were entirely out of place, but I told myself it was just a reaction to the right, or wrong, kind of stimulation. It didn’t mean anything other than a completely normal physical reaction to an attractive man. I'd do the same if any other good-looking guy had smiled at me.

Except I knew that was a lie.

When we started to move again, he put his hand on the small of my back, and I felt the electricity shoot straight through me, down to the tips of my toes.

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