Meet the Billionaire (THE BILLIONAIRES CLUB) by Zee Irwin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The Wife
HONEY ADAMS
Present Day
Five years did little to stifle the jolt to my heart or the
butterflies in my stomach when Buddy Rodgers took the stage. Not more
than twenty feet in front of me, he stood with the microphone in hand,
praising the two men beside him for their role in influencing the fine arts
scene in Boston. He hadn’t changed much, at first glance.
A little pale, maybe, since the last time I saw his face, and slightly
deeper hollows in the cheeks, as one gets when they age. The thick-rimmed
glasses were new, too, hiding his eyes like a mask. The deep azure blue
within them only a memory to me now.
But oh… How they could always see right through me and shake me
deep down to my core.
Whatever his speech, it failed to register with me when staring. Tall and
stately in his perfectly tailored pinstripe suit, he commanded the stage at the
gala, and I couldn’t move. The last time we spoke, we’d agreed he’d stay on
his side of the country and I’d stay on mine. But here we were, in serious
violation of our self-imposed pact.
He pushed the glasses up his nose, the only indication he could be
nervous. He never got nervous though, he once told me, unless he was in
front of his father getting a scolding about not taking life seriously. I’d kept
tabs on Buddy enough to know the elder man had passed away a few years
back. So why the nerves now?
Buddy had inherited the great Rodgers’ estate since we were last
together. Not that it mattered much, as he was a self-made millionaire in his
own right.
I squeezed my eyes closed and swallowed back regrets. Like my
mother, I’d chosen the wrong path and paid dearly for it. The price I paid
was losing Buddy and his money. But compared to her, at least I was alive.
“Honey?”
My eyes flew open at his voice forming around my name. He gaped at
me as if I were someone he clearly didn’t expect to pop out of the
woodwork tonight.
For a split second, our gazes locked and I transported back into his
arms. But I never had a right to be there in the first place.
How did my life become so screwed up?
“Honey!” He dropped the mic with a thud and moved quickly to
descend from the stage, but I turned and fled out the nearest door of the
event. Wasn’t that the best response after running into the man I had
disappointed years ago? The man who had offered me the world, and I
turned him down?
Shit. The footsteps running behind me in the parking lot turned my
heartbeats up to a wild rhythm. I questioned his sanity. After everything I
did to him, why would he follow?
At my car, I stopped, and his steps halted as well. I cast a glance at the
driver’s side mirror, angled just so, enough to see him by. The sight of him
still took my breath away, and my knees buckled. A quick hand on the car
steadied me and I struggled to keep from falling over.
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