A Billionaire's Bet: A Second Chance Age Gap Romance by Olivia Cruise

Author:Olivia Cruise [Cruise, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

Zoey

What Julisa had said about Brad making a bet to stick with one woman for a month kept playing over and over in my mind. Perhaps Julisa was right all along. A bet was all it was. To my calculations, we were at the thirty-day mark, and I hadn’t heard from him at all. Nothing. Not even to confess to the bet or give me some kind of apology or explanation. Although I wanted to admit the truth, I still wanted to believe that there was more to it… that I meant something to Brad. It may have started as a bet, but then he actually fell for me. But why hasn’t he responded to my message? He must be over me for it to be true. The realization struck me like a knife. As if there were no tomorrow, I started to cry. Throughout the day, I cried, wishing I could start over again and forget about Brad.

Julisa was still mad at me, so she hadn’t been home at all that week. She was staying at her parents' house to keep from seeing me for a while. It hurt my feelings, but I understood.

My mom and dad had invited me out to dinner with them and my brother that evening. I wanted to stay curled up in bed all day long, but I decided to take the invitation and get out of the house for a while. There was no promise about how my mood would be, especially with my mom being there. But I wanted to get back into the groove of my normal routines. I wanted to be able to move on with my life and focus on my everyday tasks.

I couldn’t stop thinking about Brad though. I wanted to know why he chose me for his bet—if that was what it was. I wanted to know if he was as evil and coldhearted as I thought he was after the way he’d treated me. When I saw through his mask the night of karaoke, I had thought I was seeing the real him.

My mother picked up that something was wrong right away. She didn't pry too much—I figured she could sense that I was in a fragile state, but she had questions. As always.

“Leave her alone, dear,” my dad chimed in to give me a break. “Sometimes kids just don’t want to talk about what’s troubling them. They need time to figure things out for themselves, become more independent.”

“Or sometimes, we just need privacy,” I said. “I don’t mind sharing my life, but there are things that I would like to keep to myself.”

Even my brother agreed with me. Most of the time he stayed out of the bickering between my mother and me. He was more worried about texting his girlfriends and playing his video games to care. Until she started to pry into his business. I wished I was more carefree like my brother. Life seemed a lot easier that way. Especially when it came to the matter of love.

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