The Billionaire Wants Me

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aper fingernail. Outside the house, from the view between our dining and the garden, I could clearly see whistling sparrows hopping from tree branch to tree bran

k the silence, Max immediately echoed.

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ad faces and all. Olivier was talented at pretending to be angry when dealing with the workers, putting on a scowl and raising her voice, irrespective of the

e looked so genuinely disturbed I wanted t

rds and started to laugh, a proper

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u two," I said, pun

erything. It made me excited and expectant. For example, during restaurant visits, I anticipated that Max would pop the question. I looked into his eyes longingly and sometimes searched my glasses of beverages for evidence of him dropping the ring in them, like I had witnessed in the movies. You know, you're half done with your wine, and then your vision catches something at the bottom of your glass, and y

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need to tell me. Something i

guessed Olivier was now in the picture. She'd become the reason Max

ide. They darted off into our backyard airspace like bullets from shotguns. Max and O

g at him, probably wondering if the news they just shared had loosened some bolts in my

I whispered, "Are yo

know when it happened. It just sort of, you know,

yes. Foolish me was going to announce the extra hundred thousand dollars available to scale up our

eping together," I said, almos

Max re

ll," Oliv

o thought long and hard about this? How would this whole thing work out? H

ect reason for me to accept this new reality and settle into it. "We can still live

e with the fact that you're f

how it is,

you sleep with each other. How does it work Max? You call her honey, cook for each other? My things now belon

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odile, performative tears. Yet it wouldn't matter if they were genuine. She didn't have the right to feel remorse at this moment. Best time to be remo

ning, my ph

ication b

m a client expecting

the message read. Expecting

. He designed the entire delivery app from scratch. It currently had over fifty thousand downloads across all online app stores. The handful of negative reviews was from d

cal definition of drop-dead gorgeous, but she possessed a voice so smooth she'd make it as a radio presenter and or podcaster. You fin

being angry and li

eft me as the perfect choice to deliver items. The pretty, client-facing team member with the charm and charisma. Max's and Olivier's roles meant they spent more time t

e horror my ears had just heard. I watched the screen like I'd never seen screens, until its light went blank from inactivi

nd my bearing momentarily, right? Yet it didn't feel like I had a door opened. I felt betrayed, my self esteem shatte

tell what would become of it. But I had nurtured like my child, being ha

, it wouldn't be on me. The morons sitti

t to leave as Oli

ifted Max with the sort of slap he had never received in his entire, pathetic life, one so lou

d left the fools exactly wher