The Billionaire's Second Chance

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ove with Michael Kings. Funny how his last name

y too much. Giddy and excited at how he didn't kick me out with insults, I bounce softly on the brown couch, humming to myself and reading my Spanish novel to myself. People who see me from afar might thin

he obviously has different plans. From the day I showed up in this house, 5 years ago, all Michael has lived for is to show me how much he hate me.

a soft goodbye, I walk into the kitchen in my long purple dress, my hair packed

for impe

ar, and they all stop, flash me tired smiles

longer a girl. My gown is prepared, spa day is booked, and the decorations are alread

icing the bead of sweat already forming on my forehead. I

t, and I feel him shiver. "Are you cold?" I asked not

is features. He has auburn hair that stops just on his shoulders, and

ately." I smile, "I'm just tryi

like a kid" He murm

k, pretending

kid" He beams, fibbing obviously

rations, the party starts at 5" I tell him, as

ur

e car, shutting the door and running to the driver's seat. He starts the car, simultaneou

there, he rushes to

entle

a, since I'm told that she loved the beach so much. Mama said that she had long brown hair, and she would run on the sand barefoot with grandpa. When they died a couple

she wants

e my favorite flavor, vanilla. I loved vanilla because of its complexity. People say it's simple, but that's

o meet his eyes. His green eyes, however at the time my feelings for M

." I br

sing an eyebrow in amusement.

. "The pink dresses, the parties, batting of eyelashes,

you liked t

don

I stayed silent. "Wh

ain way, like a dog. Trained in the exact manner. Diso

sequ

He echoed, his green

ting on my signature smile. The

rted, the winced, breaking the

mean?" I as

g for Canad

whispere

me a model, Arianne."

"Would it be crazy if I said I wanted to co

ake you up on that offer." He smiled sof

I said.

gue

or the both of us." I noticed the way his jaw c

good

was another pause, then he put two fingers under my c

e for the next hour or so." H

tammered br

He groaned, and shuddered against my touch, and I bit my lip, holding a smile at the effect I ha

that?" I aske

tched his neck.

s cut off by a shri

." He took out his phone from

You're officially un

it was for the boy I'd loved for

ically throbbing and his were no better. We walked back to t

nd started drivi

kiss me?" I asked

oesn't feel like that or better than that then maybe you're with the wro

hing coul

I bit my lip hard. How in the world was I supposed to think of him

p my mind to be the greatest friend I could be, no ma