Semua Bab A Second Life With The Billionaire : Bab 21 - Bab 30

Matt pulled up in the front of the hall, Luna got into the car and he drove off again. “How was the party?” Matt asked as he merged with the city’s traffic.Luna knew he was only asking as a courtesy, so she managed to drum up a smile for him.“It was nice,” she said.Matt nodded. “Good.”Luna gave him another managed smile, Matt continued driving, in silence. Luna rubbed two fingers on her forehead, there was a slight headache already brewing there. There was a dull pounding in her head too, but Luna knew that was the aftermath of the glasses of champagne she had downed at the party. And she was tired, not so much physically, but mentally. She was tired in her soul. Her heart was sick, she rubbed a hand over her chest where her heart was, there was a stinging pain there and she didn’t know what to do about it.She thought she had passed that phase. She thought she’d passed the phase where Moira’s words could still get to her and hurt her, she thought she’d passed the stage

Justin’s hands framed her face as he kissed her. His fingers spread over her cheeks, his palms cupped her chin and jutted it forward as he deepened the kiss. And Luna’s heart just pounded against her ribs.Luna had been certain she wouldn’t be missing Justin ever again when she came back into his life. She had been certain because not only had she told herself, as a rule, that she wasn’t going to get entangled with Justin romantically ever again, but she had also planned to move on in the most permanent way possible from him.And now he was kissing her. He was kissing her, and she was feeling all sorts of things. Passion, desire, heat, pulsing energy, consuming fire. All was rolling through her in maximum intensity, all at once, and her heart was pounding fast in her chest.Her head, the loud roar in it was like the headache she had nursed all through the ride home from the party till she went to bed. After taking a painkiller before bed, the headache has started to subside when sh

Everybody in the room turned to look at Cash, Luna could feel their eyes on her as they slowly turned to look back at her too. Luna’s eyes remained on Cash, she stared without saying a word, waiting for him to look at her. After a few silent seconds, he did. His eyes skittered away for a moment when they met her direct ones, he looked back at her, he shrugged.“That’s just my opinion,” he said. “I’m sorry-”“No, you’re not,” Luna interjected.Cash blinked, he shifted a little in his seat, his gaze flittered away from hers again.“I’m just saying-”“If you want to, you will sit up when you do it,” Luna cut him off again. “I am not your buddy.”The authoritative tone in Luna’s voice was like a slap. Her gaze intentionally remained direct and fixed on Cash’s face. He blinked again, he cleared his throat, and sat up on his seat. The boardroom was quiet now.Cash opened his mouth to speak again, Luna interjected smoothly.“I did not hire you, Mr. Brooks, for your advice on the eve

Luna navigated the car through the rocky road leading to the memorial ground. After her meeting with Gina, Luna needed to talk to someone, she needed to talk with someone she could tell her feelings to, her fears, her worries. She needed to sort through her feelings, like Gina had advised, and she needed to feel that special connection that came with talking to a person she trusted and loved the most in the entire world. And the person she was going to see had all these qualities in him. All of it, and more.Luna drove up to the iron gates closing the memorial ground from the outside world, the gates slid open as she drove up. She drove through them and up the also rocky paths leading to the cemetery.Rows and rows of tombstones lined up in an arranged order as Luna drove past, Luna glanced at the names on the tombstones as she always did whenever she came to the memorial ground.Lisa Hackney III (the third), Jaime Crow Sullivan, Kira Langdon, Larry Samuels II (the second). and as

“I am so sorry that I had to call you like that, I know you were with your dad, I hated having to pull you out of your time with him.”Luna turned her head to look at Rita, they were both walking towards the conference room.“You had to,” Luna said. “We both know letting this circulate any longer than it already has, and the results would be even more disastrous than it already is.”Rita nodded, the two women both walked briskly through the hallway that led to the conference room, Jaden trailing behind them.“I know, I know,” Rita said again, letting out a breath, “That doesn’t make it easier to accept.”Luna placed a hand on Rita’s arm, she gave her a small smile.“It’s all good,” she said, reassuring Rita. “I got to have my time with him before your call came in, I’m fine.”“That’s a relief then,” Rita said.They got to the conference room, through the square opening in the door of the room, Luna could see that the press was already in full force in there. About a dozen of t