The Billionaire Next Door by Lauren Wood

Author:Lauren Wood [Wood, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Amber

Again, Dustin surprised me by showing up to finish the job at Edith’s. I didn’t think he would. I expected since his father had shown up, he would be on his way back to the rich part of town. It was only temporary after all.

I should have known that he would show up, just to make a liar out of me. I told Edith that I was going to have to get someone else to finish the job, but then there he was. I was even more perturbed that she had faith in him showing up, where I hadn’t. Not to mention, she was right, and I was horribly wrong.

Avoiding Dustin like the plague, I was able to get the rest of the job done on my side and he was finishing up, while I was trying to leave before he was finished. I knew that he would do a good job cleaning up, and if not, I would come by and do it later, when he wasn’t there to watch me and make every part of my body shake. It wasn’t pleasant.

“Wait, Amber.”

I looked back and waved him off. “Sorry, but I really got to get going. I don’t want to be late.”

“Late for what?”

I paused, because it hadn’t been thought through. Why couldn’t he just take it at face-value and stop trying to make me come up with something? Couldn’t he see that I was embarrassed about what his father said and thought about me? I didn’t want to reminisce about that. Why would I? I was never going to be a girl that he could really be with, so why didn’t he see what was happening? It was a fling, that’s it.

I wanted it to be more, but I knew better. I knew what I was getting into when I had laid with him. It may not have been the best decision, but it was one that was made and there was nothing I could do about it now.

“I’m just late, okay?”

“It feels like you’re running away. You’ve been avoiding me all day. I don’t want you to be mad at me. I am sorry that he said it, but I can’t change how he is. He is a dick. I know it.”

It was wrong of me to be mad at him about it, but I wasn’t really mad. I was hurt and it was a stark and a bit soul-crushing to hear it said like it was. I should have known that I wasn’t going to be able to fix this. I wanted to, really, I did, but I wasn’t going to be able to. We were too different, and it was never going to work out.

“It’s not that, really. We’re just very different and I’m not going to say that the sex wasn’t really good Dustin, but it can’t go any further.”

“I am not asking for your hand in marriage Amber. I just want to spend some time with you. Is that too much to ask?”

It wasn’t, if that’s all it was.

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