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#Chapter 10 Fantasies of a Married Billionaire
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Hockey Billionaire's Hat Trick #Chapter 11 If It’s Not One Thing
We had just finished moving everything important—and dry—out of the apartment. I still wasn’t sure what to do with them, but maybe Barnett knew of a storage unit nearby with an opening.I was about to ask him just that when Barnett opened his mouth.“So, Anna, about the night that Lily…introduced us,” he said.Heat rose into my cheeks. God, I knew what this was about.“You acted like you didn’t know me.”Yup, here it goes, I thought. He’s going to ask if I really didn’t remember that he was my hockey coach.“Did you really not recog—”A pounding at the door startled us both.I looked at the clock. It was nearly 9:30. Who would be visiting at this hour?“Let me just see who that is,” I told Barnett as I squeezed by him. I tried to avoid touching him, but the heat between us nearly undid my composure.When I opened the door, my landlord stood on the other side. A portly man with oversized glasses and a tendency to vape, I hadn’t dealt with Mr. Smith much outside of signing the lease. Th
Hockey Billionaire's Hat Trick #Chapter 12 If You Can’t Take the Heat
“I’ll teach you.” I couldn’t find the words to object. Honestly, I didn’t want to, either. “Okay. So, how do I start?” I said instead. He motioned to the padded block at one end of the machine. “Sit here.” I obeyed. “Put your feet here.” I put my feet where he indicated and strapped them in. Barnett bent over me and checked the straps on my feet. My heart fluttered at the smell of his sweat and the feel of his arms as they wrapped around me. This felt just like when Barnett coached me in hockey, except somehow more…intimate. “Good. Nice and tight.” Like the back support belt, I said in my mind. “Now, I want you to grab this.” He leaned over me and handed me what looked like a pole on an elastic string. “And we’re going to turn this on to keep track of your progress.” Again, he leaned over me to press some buttons on the monitor by my feet. I tried to pay attention to
Hockey Billionaire's Hat Trick #Chapter 13 Get Out of the Kitchen
“You mean…you knew?” “You think?” “I…well…” I was a bit distracted. I would never admit that out loud. By your words…your actions… “Did you think I wasn’t observant enough to see the camera set up right there?” I blushed even though Barnett couldn’t see me. His tone during the workout had been its usual forceful one, but something about how he had conducted himself, about what he said, how close he was to me when he said it—it was too much for me even now. “Well?” I shook my head, realizing I had lost myself in my thoughts. “No, I guess…I don’t know what I thought. I’m sorry.” “Don’t worry about it. Just remember that other people might not be as cool about it as I am. Okay?” “Okay.” “And in the future, I don’t mind being in your videos, any time you need me.” “Okay,” I said, a bit surprised. “I am your trainer, after all.”•* * That night, I dreamt of a memory from
Hockey Billionaire's Hat Trick #Chapter 14 The Tangled Web We Weave
I had no idea what was going on, nor did I want to know. I had too many problems of my own at the moment to want to be dragged into anyone else’s, so I decided to leave as quickly as possible. It wasn’t worth the few bucks I’d save on gas to wait for Barnett’s ride.I took a couple steps toward my car, determined to leave Barnett to handle his own marital problems, when I felt his arm wrap around my waist. He pulled me close to him. “Julia, this is my new girlfriend, Anna,” Barnett said, sticking his chin out proudly. My eyes widened, and my jaw dropped. I couldn’t even enjoy being so close to Barnett with the shock I was in. Tears welled at the edges of Julia’s eyes. Her cheeks turned bright red, and the color crept up the back of her neck to her ears. “How dare you!” she screamed. “You cannot treat me this way. I planned to give up my modeling career so we could start a family, and you found someone else?” “Oh, no,” I said. “I—”
Hockey Billionaire's Hat Trick #Chapter 15 Haters Gonna Hate
I checked my social media accounts more often that day than I ever did. I wished I hadn’t. Everything, even my workout vlogs, were swarmed by Julia’s fans. They had nothing but abuse and death threats for me. Who does this b*tch think she is, getting in the middle of a happy couple like that? Just because she couldn’t keep her marriage together, she had to ruin someone else’s? Barnett’ll dump her in a week. A week? I give them a day! How did a fat cow like her manage to catch a 10 like Billionaire Barnett anyway? The comments went on and on. Some went so low as to suggest that I was only in the relationship for Barnett’s money; others went even lower and said that if Barnett were to pay someone to be with him, she’d be a lot hotter than me. Ouch. By the time I got off work, people had made compilations of my workouts with Julia’s runway videos. Titles included “Beauty vs. Beast”, “Fab vs. Fat”, and the eve
Hockey Billionaire's Hat Trick #Chapter 16 Paparazzi
I muted the TV and answered the phone.“Hello?”“Hello, Anna? It’s Barnett.”“Hi, Barnett.” I paused. “You’re calling a bit late.”“Yeah, I know. I was just looking through my social media, and I wanted to apologize for everything.”My heart fluttered. “You don’t need to apologize.”“Don’t I?”He almost sounded angry. At me? At himself?“No. You didn’t do anything.”I waited for him to respond, but Barnett remained quiet. The silence between us stretched to an almost uncomfortable length when he finally spoke again.“Well, it’s getting late. I should probably let you get to sleep.”“Yeah. Thanks for calling.”“No problem. Good night, Anna.”“Good night, Barnett.”•* *When I fell asleep, Barnett filled my dreams.He stood in front of my bed. His eyes narrowed as they roved over my body. Chills ran up my spine at the hunger in his stare.I looked down to see that I wore nothing but a pink, lacy, see-through nightgown. My instinct was to cover myself from Barnett’s gaze. Instead, I foun
Hockey Billionaire's Hat Trick #Chapter 17 One Little Slip
I scrambled into the car. My seatbelt was scarcely buckled before Barnett booked it out of the parking lot. The paparazzi soon disappeared from the rearview mirror.“Why are you here?” I asked as I settled into my seat. “Don’t you mind being photographed…with me?”Barnett didn’t look away from the road. “I don’t know why I’m here. In fact, I’m missing a very important morning.”I shriveled in my seat. “I’m sorry.”“Why apologize? You didn’t do anything wrong.”“I…”“You don’t always need to be concerned with other people’s feelings. Anna, your mistake was that you intruded on my dreams last night. So, when I woke up, I decided to come to you.”My eyes widened in surprise. “What-what did you say?”Barnett pursed his lips and didn’t respond. The muscles in his neck and jaw tightened.I didn’t dare to say anything else. Even if I wanted to pursue the question, I couldn’t. He obviously wasn’t in the mood to talk.I decided that I must have heard him wrong. We couldn’t have dreamt about ea
Hockey Billionaire's Hat Trick #Chapter 18 Awkward
I heard Rebecca talking with one of Arthur’s dog walkers.“I can’t believe she actually finished putting that makeup on him,” the dog walker, John, said so loudly that I was obviously meant to hear it.“What was she going to do? She was running out of time.” Rebecca’s mocking tone cut me to my core.“It’s just so hideous. She shouldn’t have even kept it in rotation.”“We all make mistakes. None usually so big, mind you…”The two share a laugh. My first clenches as I resist the urge to punch them both.“I doubt that even Arthur’s favorite will get away with this one,” Rebecca continued.I should have known that they hated me for how gentle Arthur was with me, especially when the rest of them had been working for him for so much longer. It wasn’t my fault that I had made friends with my boss. Still, even I doubted that this seeming favoritism would get me out of trouble this time.“That’s enough.”I turned to see Arthur step out from behind the folding room divider. I died a little insi
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