THE BILLIONAIRE FIRST SITE

RAVEN POV.

The distance between our lips was just a breath. As his mouth met mine, the world felt steady, and mine.

"Hold on," i whispered against his skin. "What is your name?"

he opened his mouth to answer, but the voice that came back wasn't his.

"This stop is Bellevue! Bellevue station!"

The dream shattered. The scent of expensive cologne was replaced by the stale air of a crowded city bus. My eyes snapped open, blinking severely against the fluorescent lights. I wasn't a CEO, and no one was proposing to me. I was jolted upright in my seat, my bags weighing heavily against my legs.

I stumbled off the bus at Valerius International Airport, my heart still heavy with the life I didn't have. That was when I saw it.

Towering over the terminal was an enormous digital billboard.

"Guest Lecturer: Bennett Zade, the best AI programmer in Paris."

My stomach dropped. The name ranged in my head like a physical blow. Just a year ago, that name meant "home." Now, looking at his perfectly airbrushed face, it only meant the cafe where he had crushed my soul

Calling me a stray cat that thinks it’s a tiger.

The audacity!

I stopped before a basalt statue it features energy and protection, then pulled out my phone snapping a quick selfie.

"They say this will give me a son,” Jade murmured to the stone, she looked up spotting me, her expression wide with recognition.

"Raven?" She exclaimed, taking off her sunglasses,

"isn't it the psycho from sentinel girl's high! It's me, jade Orion!"

"Wait! The yapper of grade 12 jade Orion?"

She burst into laughter, I didn’t join in. being it she was a frenemy.

"Are you here on vacation? I tagged along on my boyfriend's work trip." She asked

"come say hi to my high school friend, raven!

I looked where a tall man, familiar approached

"hello, it's nice…” I paused.

This was the same man who dumped me at a cafe last year, and Jade had just introduced him as her boyfriend.

"it's nice to meet you. My name is Bennett zade,” He began.

I manage to regain my composure, plastering a fake smile on my face.

She grabbed bennett arm, pulling him close. "Of course you're shocked! Isn't my fiance so handsome?"

"My foot,” I murmured.

her eyes searching the surrounding. " are you here with your boyfriend too?"

"Ah! No, just alone..." I'm just alone today because he's really busy." I laughed.

Bennett gave me crippled smirk.

I reached for my phone. “Sorry, my boyfriend is calling.”

Though no one was actually calling.

I waved my hand dismissively leaving the situation.

Then stomped my foot on a hard rock beneath me, which sent me flying on the ground and landed face flat on the dusty dried floor, I summoned courage and stood up while giving them an embarrassed look of frustration and walked off

“Goodness could this day get any worst” I said while storming off.