My Christmas Wish by Gem Frost

Author:Gem Frost [Frost, Gem]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Daylily Publishing
Published: 2018-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Unfortunately, getting access to a world-famous billionaire isn’t as simple as you might imagine, especially if he’s never heard of you. As apparently this Stephen Dominick had not.

I begged and pleaded with every security guard in the building to just let me talk to him, but as far as any of them knew, I was just a random dude in faded jeans and a cheap shirt—hardly the sort of person a rich man would be likely to count as a close friend, under normal circumstances. Except Stephen and I had been good friends, a whole year before we’d started sleeping together. But it was obvious that had never happened here.

Well, of course it hadn’t. In this reality, Stephen and I had never met.

I went from begging to arguing, and eventually I got escorted quite firmly out of Dominick Tower, and told in no uncertain terms to stay out.

Sighing, I stood in the crisp morning air in downtown Norfolk, and glumly considered my options. There weren’t many. I could head out to Stephen’s house in Virginia Beach, and try to waylay him when he came home from work this evening. But he had security guarding his house too, and they were unlikely to let me hang around in the bushes near the road till he showed up. And even if I did happen to spot him driving one of his flashy muscle cars, or riding in his limo, and tried to make him stop so we could talk—what then?

It was painfully obvious that he wouldn’t know me, any more than anyone else here did.

I wish I’d never met you, Stephen.

That was the wish I’d made. In a childish fit of rage, in a petty moment, I’d lashed out at the man I’d loved… and this was the result. No one associated with Stephen knew me, and so it was approaching a hundred percent certainty that Stephen himself wouldn’t know me, either.

If I’d never met Stephen, I mused glumly, then I’d probably never interned at Dominick Technologies either. Without that experience on my résumé, I was a kid like thousands of others, a kid who’d gone to a decent-but-not-outstanding state school, a kid who didn’t really stand out from the pack. I probably hadn’t managed to get a good job, even with a degree.

Hell, for all I knew, I might not have even managed to earn my bachelor’s degree. Without Stephen’s encouragement, I might easily have dropped out of school. After my parents had died, I hadn’t inherited a damn thing except Mom’s diamond, which I’d never in a million years part with. I’d had to do restaurant work and odd jobs around school just to keep myself fed, and it had been exhausting.

With a pang, I remembered Stephen encouraging me whenever I found myself weighted down by struggling toward a degree while working crappy minimum-wage jobs on the side: You can do this, Gabe. You’re one of the smartest people I know. I believe in you.

Of course, he would have gladly paid off my student loans in a heartbeat.

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