The Billionaire's Seed: A Secret Baby Romance by Natasha Spencer

Author:Natasha Spencer [Spencer, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PPI
Published: 2018-05-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Aaron felt stale inside. He felt as though he’d been cut along his spine in his sleep and flipped inside out, his insides roasted under the California sun. Between the seizure in the boardroom, Mr. Lee’s swift intervention, having to fire Desiree, and swirls of Vanessa permeating his mind, Aaron needed a break. He needed to make something happen. Something to shake him up inside. Something to take the power back. Something to regain control over his life, which was tumbling ever faster out of his hands.

He needed a woman. He needed to feel the dips of her waist, the meat of her ass in his hands. It didn’t matter who. Aaron would be fine with a mannequin at this point, a doll, some faceless icon that he could use and throw away. He was too busy to date anyone, too mentally blocked to feel anything for anyone. That left him with the scraps of the ready-made sex industry: pornography, strippers, high-class escorts. This, too, tarnished Aaron’s mental landscape. If sexual contact was only a few crumpled banknotes away, then what was the point?

Normally, he would call an escort service and wait for a girl to show up. He’d pretend—in every way he could, every way he wanted—to love her for a few hours. He’d do whatever he wanted, wherever he wanted, however he wanted. He’d be so enraptured with this prostitute in a mask of elegance, but not because of her as a person. Because she was a walking, talking, breathing variable. He could configure her in any way he desired, filling any gaps he had in the equation of his life.

Tonight though, Aaron needed something different. He needed wind on his face. He needed to reactivate the dull, blunt tips of what used to be a sharp and glimmering lifestyle. He was fading, somehow, into a lesser version of himself. He needed to get out of this rut, to get his lust for life back.

Kümertech was headquartered in the suburbs outside of Los Angeles due to zoning restrictions and cheaper property rates back in the 1970s when Charlie Ridley founded the company. The Ridley family never bothered to move the company into the city, despite the fact that they lived in high-rises looking out over Manhattan Beach. Aaron spent most of his time in the suburbs, especially since his father fell ill. He couldn’t stand the sterile feeling of his father’s impending death seeping into his nostrils every time he went for a visit.

Thinly veiled by the guise that work took precedence, Aaron stayed in hotels close to his office building, living as the suburbanites did. He took his meals at family-style chain restaurants, filled his car with gas at one of the local mom-and-pop gas stations, and walked around the outdoor sprawl of shops that constituted a mall by suburban standards. He wanted to live like these people did. Aaron longed for normalcy, for ordinariness, for a life devoid of quarterly reports and million-dollar revenues and designer suits and year-end galas.

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