Do Billionaires Ever Do Redemption ?

ntly? Because if not, I'm goi

efore answering. "

tired of complicated being an excuse to end a conversation. I'd been tired of it so long that I had purposely set my life up to be simple. No ties.

I was in my right mind, that would hav

her email. Out of the blue, after all these years? It m

er judgment,

denly afraid of the answer, and asked something better. "In fact, wh

first thing about how to get one on the black market. I considered poisoning, but I don't have a

wasn't a killer. W

apable of murder?' And then you thought, 'Oh, I bet Cade Warren would be up

I'd come pretty close a couple of times, when the low-life job I'd had before Donovan "rescued" me had found m

I thought you'd be..." She let out

? Why me,

eads were better than one, and like I said

voicing. Sure, I'd imagined it enough times over my life. I'd imagined it in detail. I could write a bo

uld I have waited nearly twenty years to do it? You couldn't have thought I was just sitting around waiting for someon

o this for no other reason than because I need someone t

d yet you're

a

k. The answer was right there, evident in her hopeful eyes and her pleading tone and her unsaid

what, Juli

op

ushing me away, ignoring my attempts to reach out? After disappea

slightly. "I

a whole hell of a lot more

height-"fuck you for disappearing like you did. And fuck you fo

nk that," sh

e was any chance in hell that I

. I'd do it

f this is bullshit. I'm not going to be your fall guy-" She opened her mouth, and I put up a finger to silence her. "And I'm sure as fuck not going to be your knight in shining armor. I tried to play that part

to see me that affected. It was the weaker hand. Anger/hurt/resentment-showing any of those emotions prove

or, the jackpot, if she'd gotten down on her knees and begged, but her despondent silence was a

k and grabbed a piece of paper off his notepad and a stra

calling

aper and pen on the desk and stood before gathering her coat and h

r back now, so I didn't bother finishing the s

ured tire. This was supposed to be my closure, and yet goddamn