Christmas with the Billionaire by Sam Crescent

Author:Sam Crescent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, short story, older man, bbw, billionaire, christmas romance, romance on the go, may/december
Publisher: Evernight

Chapter Six

She’d worked hard all her adult life. Everything she’d accomplished had been completely on her own. For people to think she’d slept her way to the top was the worst thing that could happen. The stares. The accusations. It was all too much.

Alora just knew something like this would happen.

Yet, she couldn’t bring herself to regret going home with Adam the night of the Christmas party. If she were completely honest with herself, she was falling in love with him. He made her feel safe, wanted, and beautiful. She didn’t want to give him up, but she also didn’t want the company he’d built from scratch to come crashing down because of unfounded accusations. He didn’t deserve this any more than she did.

Maybe love wasn’t in the cards for people like them.

She wasn’t mad at Adam, but she’d wanted to leave the office building and have some time alone to think. Being back in her little apartment didn’t have the same appeal. Her eyes had been opened to so much more. Settling for her fantasies and daydreams of the perfect life would no longer do after having a taste of what life with Adam could be like.

Alora flopped down on her sofa. It felt even lonelier in her apartment with Burt missing. Since she’d been sleeping at Adam’s condo, her cat had gone along with her. They were a package deal.

She’d never been happier. Things were slowly coming together. And now this. Marvin was a little weasel with no sense of honor and completely lacking a moral compass. If his work held weight, he wouldn’t have to stoop to trashing her name or trying to put Nelson Industries out of business.

She couldn’t see a way out of this mess. Maybe walking away from her job—from Adam—was the only answer. Christmas lights from the balcony above her lit up her dark apartment. They taunted her. Reminding her she’d always been alone, unwanted, drifting through life with nothing to ground her. Alora covered her face with her hands and cried. So many emotions, old and new, came rushing to the surface.

Alora wanted the fairy tale, only it didn’t exist at all.

She drifted in and out of sleep, finally waking fully from a constant ringing. Alora sat up with a start. At first, she thought it was her cell phone, but it was her doorbell. She rarely heard it. Since the front door lock to the building was broken, even delivery drivers rarely pushed the button. She slipped from the sofa and hit the intercom by her door.

“Hello?”

“Can I come up?” Adam asked.

“What are you doing here?” she asked.

“Please, Alora.”

She pushed the release buzzer on her intercom, even though it was pointless. Within minutes, he knocked on her front door.

Just opening the door a few inches, she blocked her apartment from view. “I told you I needed some time.”

“Yeah, that was nine hours ago.”

Alora glanced at her watch, shocked to see it was so late at night.

“Look, this isn’t meant to be, okay? I’m not going to let Marvin ruin everything you’ve worked for.

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