Tightrope by Maddie Wade

Author:Maddie Wade [Wade, Maddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Hunter

Leaning back in my leather executive chair, I bounce a tennis ball off the pristine white walls of my office. The repetition of throwing the ball and hearing the thud, before it rebounded for the catch soothed my busy mind.

I couldn’t stop thinking about my Pretty Girl and it was driving me crazy. Not to mention that I needed to send my PA flowers when she threatened to quit. I was being a total bastard. A big part of me didn’t care what they all thought, but with my head in the clouds, I really needed my people on point.

Jake knocked on my door, before poking his head around.

“It safe?” he asked with a sarcastic grin that made me toss the ball at his head. “I guess you still haven’t found her then?”

I sit up, turning to face him as he came fully into the room and plonked himself down opposite my desk. “No, he hasn’t.”

“Well, this guy is the best PI around so if he can’t find her then maybe she doesn’t exist.”

“She exists,” I almost shout. Jake is my best friend. He has been since college, we grew up together and now he works as my Legal Counsel. He has the preppy blonde good looks that make women’s panties fall off including ninety percent of the female legal secretaries and associates. He must keep busy just keeping himself out of court with the number of staff members he has slept with.

“Well, then he’ll find her,” he said with a shrug.

Swiveling to face the window I looked out over the city skyline and a wave of something I can’t explain hit me in my gut. I couldn’t explain the feeling, but it felt like apathy.

I made millions of dollars every year. I had hundreds of people dependent on me for their jobs and their livelihoods, more power than I could ever want. I could go where I wanted, do what I wanted and yet I felt nothing. I wanted more, I just didn’t know what, but I had a feeling it was tied up with her.

“She really got to you, didn’t she?” I don’t answer immediately, I’m not some pussy guy that talks about his feelings every two minutes, that wasn’t my style. Snow is falling and from this height, on the twenty-third floor it looks so peaceful and pretty, I could almost touch it. He continued, “I met a woman once that made me feel as if I was her everything. She would look at me like I hung the moon.”

I turned back to my friend at his words, this was all news to me. As far as I knew he had never had a strong feeling for a woman. “What happened to her?”

His face looks sad for a fleeting second before he shrugs. “People change, shit happens. My point is, don’t give up. She may be the one to look at you like that and if she is, don’t make the same mistake I did and walk away without a fight.

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