Taking Control: A Billionaire Boss Romance (Playboys of New York Book 4) by JA Low

Author:JA Low [Low, JA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JALowBooks
Published: 2021-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

22

Stella

Dropping me home after the disaster that was today, EJ left, and in all honesty, I don’t know when he’s coming home again.

Why was I such a bitch to him on the bus?

He’s not the one with the problem. It’s me.

I’ve waited nearly an hour for him to come home after our day out, but nothing. I pick up my phone and call Ariana.

“Hey, babe,” she answers the phone happily on the first ring, and I burst into tears as soon as I hear her voice. “Stell, are you okay?” I can hear the concern in her voice, but I take a few seconds before I can answer her, “No.” I sniffle. “I think I’ve messed up.” I let out a sigh. “No, I keep messing up.”

“Oh, babe. I’ll be right over,” she tells me.

“Okay.” Curling up on the couch, I wait for her to arrive.

A little while later, Ariana rushes through the door with a bottle of tequila in her hand.

“I have your medicine right here.” Shaking the bottle, makes me crack a smile. Ariana goes over to the bar area and brings back two shot glasses. She pours us both a drink, and we knock it back. The liquid burns as it travels down my throat. “So, what the hell has happened?” she asks.

I tell her everything that happened with EJ and the bus ride today.

The kiss.

EJ’s confession of his feelings.

Me pushing him away.

“Okay, that is a lot to unpack right there.” Ariana grins, pouring us another shot, and we throw it back.

“I know, I feel terrible.”

“So, EJ has kind of confessed his feelings for you?” Ariana asks, and I nod my head in agreement. “But you think it’s because of the accident, and they aren’t real?” I nod again. Ariana contemplates that for a couple of moments, then says, “And you think that none of this would be happening if it wasn’t for the accident?”

Exactly.

“There’s no way in the world EJ would be looking after me like he is. We would have come home from Vegas and gone back to our normal lives. I may still be with Dan. Anderson and Emma would be happy and in love, and EJ would be out having fun with all the single women of New York.”

“I see your point,” Ariana agrees. Wow, okay, I wasn’t ready for that. “But maybe this accident has sped up the feelings EJ’s always had for you,” she points out.

“He never made them clear when I was dating Dan,” I argue.

“Yeah, he did. He’s the one who came up with the name Douchebag Dan,” Ariana reminds me. “He always told you that you could do better.”

“But… but that was as a friend, nothing more.”

“Was it, though?” Ariana pushes.

My mind begins to unpack that comment. Going back and thinking about my past boyfriends, EJ has never liked any of them.

“But he’s never made a move till now,” I groan.

“Because he nearly lost you, Stell. Before the accident, he knew you were always going to be there,” she explains.

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