Billionaire's Bounty Cost Of Love And Revenge novel Chapter 45

Chapter 45

Asher’s POW

I looked up at the doorway as Luca walked in with a smile on his face.

“Who’s the Lady out there?” he asked, gesturing with his hands.

My brows furrowed in confusion until I saw the stupid smile on his face, “Are you referring to my secretary? Lasked. He popped a gum, tossed it in his mouth. “Yeah, the hot blonde sitting in the reception. He pulled out a chair and plopped down on it. “Where did you find a hot secretary like that? is there an app? Ineed one of those!” He declared. “What’s her game, hook me up

“Eww, no,” I answered. “I don’t want what happened with Lucia to happen all over again.” Lucia was my old secretary at Sterling Industries, and the only reason she didn’t come here with me was that she was still nursing a terrible heartbreak from her affair with Luca, “ko Stacy caught the funny look in his eyes. “She’s efficient. She’s.

“Does ly know you have a crush on your secretary?” he teased me with an amused look on his face.

Trolled my eyes. “No, she d

Luca grinned. “Now you‘

doesn’t, because I don’t care for my secretary, hy is good enough for me…

you’re singing a different tune. I remember you clearly saying you didn’t want anything to do with her What changed?”

I thought long and hard about it and realized nothing had changed, I had lied to myself, telling myself could stop caring for hy, but that was alle, and I knew it now. I shrugged, “Well…“I trailed off What else was I supposed to say? Even I didn’t understand the things I felt for her hy is… Trubbed my temples. “She’s very important to me,” I admitted out loud.

Luca was staring at me in disbelief. “I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that you’re the one saying these things. You really found the one,

The one? Was Ivy the one? Whatever that meant? I asked myself. I didn’t have any answers. All I knew was that she was important to me. “Maybe you should find the one too,” I told him. “It will do you a whole lot of good. Then you wouldn’t pull me along to your club and abandon me

“Seriously, Asher. You need to stop telling the story like that. You have to get the facts straight. I was on my own, minding my bloody business when you called me and sounded like you were in a rush. He paused and peered closely at me. “What happened that day?”

I frowned and bit the inner corner of my lip, in a bid to stifle the grin. I looked away. “It was nothing…

Luca slammed the table. “You cheeky bastard, it was definitely something” he exclaimed.

I couldn’t keep it in anymore. I broke into a wide grin. “Okay, yeah… it was something I needed to get out of the house… trailed off. That was the only information I was going to give him.

He folded his arms across his chest and leaned backward on his chair, staring at me. “My man, you have it really bad. You are completely smitten, aren’t you?

Tomiled Somehow, the thought of being completely smitten by Ivy was not a turn–off; it was enticing. I reclined in my chair. “Yo am, maybe lam,” answered. “I’m not even going to try to fight it off.”

He chuckled. “You really don’t remember what happened that night, do you?”

I shook my head in response.

He opened his mouth in shock. “You’re really walking around with a large gap in your memory, and you’re not worried at at?”

I was, but I was trying hard not to show it.

what? Maybe

He counted with his fingers. “10, 11, 12, 1, 2.. that’s a lot of hours unaccounted for. Does it not make you anxious? Are you not wondering about what you did in all that time and if it will come pack to bite you?” he asked.

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“No.“lied through my teeth. “I try not to think about it at all,” explained. “But remind myself never to hang out with

He chortled. “But, seriously, I gave you pointers. You spent most of the time taking with that model chick, Taylor, if there’s anything

how you got home that night.”

I sucked in a breath.

Luca’s eyes widened. “I caught that look” he announced, pointing at me. “There’s something you’re not telling me…”

I hated. I never could hide anything from Luca; he knew me too well. “Well, Taylor and I were not exactly meeting each other for the first time that day, Lopened up

His eyes flew open. “No way!”

“Is she one of the girls you slept…

“Eww, no!” “My

face was contorted in disgust.

Luca peered at me like he was seeing me for the first time. “You’re acting like this wasn’t your favorite sport, it’s such a shocker..

I shrugged. “Well, it isn’t, not anymore,” I answered,

“it’s going to take a while for me to get used to it,” he replied, and then he sat upright. “If you didn’t sleep with her, then how do you know her?”

“She’s hy’s ex–best friend…

“Ex because?” He cut in

“Because Ivy walked in on her fucking her ex,”

Luca’s jaw dropped. “No way!”

I nodded in response. “Taylor is a sensitive topic for us; I don’t want to address it at all…”

Luca nodded in understanding “I get that, but Asher, you truly need to know. I mean, it wouldn’t hurt to…

I flicked the pen in my h

tin y hand. “Something tells me it’s a lot better to stay as far away from Taylor as I can. It was only a few minutes into meeting her, and she caused our first fight as a couple…”

“So, I’m guessing Ivy doesn’t know that you ran into her?”

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