The Hated Billionaire: Enemies To Lovers Bad Boy Office Romance by Erica Frost

Author:Erica Frost [Frost, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hewlett-Packard Company
Published: 2021-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15: Christina

I went for a long walk after Brett had gone home. I was dazed and amazed and mystified and delighted and I couldn’t stop thinking about him. I went into the park – not the one where we’d walked, but a smaller one, close to my home – and sat down, letting my body relax as I watched the people walking here and there with their dogs or just by themselves, enjoying the warm evening.

“What is all this about?”

I shook my head. I should just stop thinking so hard and enjoy it. After all, he was being an absolute dear and I was finding out how fond I was of him. I just couldn’t help questioning how he’d possibly gone from his difficult, arrogant former self, to this sweet person overnight.

“And why?”

He had been very awkward about his past, and I was starting to wonder exactly what was so interesting that he was worried people would sell it to the tabloids. It must be pretty intense, I imagined. I shook my head. I was letting my imagination get ahead of me. It was probably nothing. All the same, I imagined that perhaps he had been a spy, or he’d embezzled, or…well, a million possibilities. I went to the window, looking out.

“Get a grip, Christina,” I told myself firmly. “You need something to distract you.”

A distraction was easy to find – I had to prepare stuff for a meeting too and, even though I had decided to try and keep weekends free, I thought that it was better to focus on work than to try and make sense of all the events of today.

“Item one,” I said aloud as I sat at my laptop. “I am falling for my boss. Item two, I don’t know anything about him. Item three…” I paused, reaching for my notes from the meeting that I was actually supposed to be typing up. I put them down on the desk and resumed my own list. “Item three, he has some secrets and I don’t know what they are.”

I frowned. Was that really so bad? I didn’t know why I was making such a big deal out of that – after all, there are loads of things you don’t know about someone when you meet them for the first time. Everybody has hidden depths.

Hidden depths – like their past, their secrets, or where they might have stashed bodies…I tried not to think about it.

“That’s just silly,” I told myself.

After all, I was hiding things from him, too. I rested my face in my upturned palms and contemplated that fact. I hadn’t told him anything about myself – nothing at all. He knew a little bit from that night when I’d been crying, and – as far as I knew – he hadn’t even speculated about what had happened in my past. He’d certainly never asked me anything about it since then. I wondered about that – was he worried about upsetting me? Was it that he wasn’t interested? Or, like me, was he too hesitant?

I sighed.

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