I LOVE-HATE THE BILLIONAIRE
IA
nly girl in
's club and it pleased me gre
when I became vice president though
its usual excitement. I leaned in and whispered. "Are you alright? Why hasn't the meeting started already?" He didn't meet my gaze. "I'm alright, and the
paid it no mind, my attention on my pho
rning, e
roz
t v
deeper yet,
turned to look at the one person who had managed to get Shane out of his usual joll
n Kn
reaking
eps like he was on a stroll, even when he knew perfectl
initely hi
en though he was in a fucking suit, and his hair, damn his hair was still the usual mess I remembered... the kind that had made me want to reach out and ruffle them some more back when we
en I w
espite it being so long ago, or some other completely romantic shit. I don't know exactly what I was looking for, but suffice to say, it ne
red uneasily, which was weird, because
ess, seeing as you're the only woman in the room and all." His gaze shifted from me to Shane. "Now dad, is tha
a
o
as Shan
liev
mbarrassing high school encounter... hell I'd avoided him for the rest of s
freaking icin
o
s the son
ally was a bi
ng made sens
irst time I'd seen him. Turns out he was the father of
ve to know this
pposed to be
pointed, and yet mostly pleased that he didn't recognize me. A part of me wanted to proudly declare who I was, so he could see that I was no longer the na
ge
l of a sudden, I didn't give two fucks if he was the bloody son of t
rted already? What's one other person? We can still car
." One of the directors calmly stated. Dylan sat down and I resigned m
with regards to the vi
Seeing Dylan again had totally wrecked the
a ticking t
to get everything
e very best at what you do. But your... uhm campaign
'm fucking good at my job... that, I'm capable of being vice president. My gu
ng me to shoot him a glare. "Look, no one is
your fucking opinion
ne
. I turned to face the board, breathing in deeply to calm
his glasses and nervously cleared his throat
ng wasn
ng to set me off. Now that I was paying more attention, I realised that no one else was speaki
was seriou
ed the bald man. "I'm l
ther person to be in competition with you, so the position could be gi
y hurt and betrayal only for a brief moment before a blank mask shifted
ne
nd didn't
ather-and-daughter clos
ing except a
inted Shane so much, and the old m
thing he could ha
y didn
obvious... it was literally screami
just had a problem givin
at satisfaction. To speak out
s bigger
it till now? Why raise my hopes up when you coul
ooking for a sui
ers
this was some kind
s a probability he wasn't going to be interested after all. W
get a hold of
like really gave him
im even more handsom
adversary th
daddy's boy -who mind you, doesn't even work here- could be more qualified for t
ade me hesitate to work for my father in the first place. Simply because, y'all would just assume that any feat I managed to achi
ooke
be attracted to him again. I
nd then play the victim card. Perhaps, the fact that he didn't seem to recognize me was wh
the truth. It's practically inevitable, which is why I can't even begin to fath
ere manner, causing me to shudder inwardly. His eyes g
s going t
ou think,
ha-" One other member of the board tried to
r what you think of me, I'm a daddy's boy,
he dronin
anaged to rise so high, and in such a short period of time too. Does it mean th
ane roared. "You will not
to call me name
but this was a whole new level of low. I learnt something out of it though; that, that was what he thought about me. At least m
't showing it, my mind, my
eset, a reminder of why I h
ill a jer
be given a couple of months and a list of investors we'd like to partner wi
even a single person on the list, because that will be a hard
uage my fears. "Don't worry Brianna, it's nothing serious...
r a moment and le
of the board, Mr. Maloney this time. "Whoever fails to get the most investors
my
rting up over there, and granted; I could easily bring it to a level to be reckoned with, but I would have to up and le
w more than ever to
e done here?" I
firmed. "We'll forward the list
Have a good d
ylan, I smirked. "May