All Chapters of Bound By A Billion-Dollar Lie: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

ANASTASIA’s POVThe instructions I’d given myself were simple. Fly to Monaco, secure the contract with the foreign investors, and head back to London proving once again why I was the undisputed head of Reeds and associates. Rivals didn’t line up around the block trying to ruin me just because I was lucky, they did it because I never lost a deal. And nowhere in that flawless strategy did it say I should be standing almost half naked in the crowded strip club, swaying my hips to the music while gulping down two glasses of mixed alcoholic drinks in one go. ‘’Danm, Lyra.’’ Someone muttered behind me and I turned, a wide smile breaking across my lips.‘’Jean-Paul.’’ I shouted, my voice getting drowned out by the sound of the music.He stretched out his hand and I placed mine in his, letting him drag me to the backstage of the club, the music died down as the door closed behind us.‘’I’m glad you graced us with your presence again today.’’ He muttered, an excited glint laced in his eyes

ANASTASIA’s POV2 MONTHS LATER, NOTTING HILL, LONDON. ‘’Oh cut the bullshit, Bianca!’’ I screamed over the phone, my hand hovering over the lit screen in front of me.I was in my office, battling the worst headache ever after a board room clash and the Bianca was the least of my worries.It was Danm near the nth time she had crashed my apartment because she couldn’t afford to get her own place.‘’I’m just gonna move out!’’ She shouted back, hanging up the phone before I could even retort.Move out?I’d heard that flimsy excuse slip off her lips a hundred times in 3 months.She was barely even living in. Only crashing once in a while and ruining everything that made my house a home.I hit my phone on the desk with a loud thud, massaging my forehead as I could already feel an headache coming.The sound of my office door pushing open without a knock reverbarated in the air as the door was pushed with enough force to have the hinges ripping off.‘’What the—‘’My words hung in my throat