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One Night With My Billionaire Boss

One Night With My Billionaire Boss

Nathaniel Stone
I woke up on silk sheets that smelled of expensive cedar and cold sandalwood, a world away from my cramped apartment in Brooklyn. Beside me lay Ezra Gardner-my boss, the billionaire CEO of Gardner Holdings, and the man who could end my career with a snap of his fingers. He didn't offer an apology for the night before; instead, he looked at me with terrifying clarity and proposed a cold, calculated business arrangement. "Marriage. It stabilizes the board and solves the PR crisis before it begins." He dressed me in archival Chanel and sent me home in his Maybach, but my life was already falling apart. My boyfriend, Irving, claimed he had passed out early, yet his location data placed him at my best friend's apartment until three in the morning. When I tried to run, I realized Ezra was already ten steps ahead, tracking my movements and uncovering the secret I'd spent twenty years hiding: my connection to the powerful Senator Grimes. I was trapped between a CEO who treated me like a line item on a quarterly report and a boyfriend who had been using me while sleeping with my closest friend. I felt like a pawn in a game I didn't understand, wondering why a man like Ezra would walk up forty flights of stairs on a broken leg just to make sure I was safe. "Showtime, Mrs. Gardner." Standing on the red carpet in a gown that cost more than my life, I watched my cheating ex-boyfriend's face turn pale as Ezra claimed me in front of the world. I wasn't just an assistant anymore; I was a weapon, and it was time to burn their world down.
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Es war Tag geworden.

Noch immer rieselte der Regen und troff an den kleinen Fenstern der Krankenstube herunter. Bleigraues Licht stahl sich z?gernd durch die Gardinen und mischte sich mit dem Schein der Lampe, die auch jetzt noch vor dem Bette brannte.

Auf dem gro?en Bauerngutshof erwachte einiges Leben. Man h?rte zuweilen ein dumpfes Aufbrüllen der Kühe, und dazwischen das vereinzelte Rufen der Knechte. Doch klang alles ged?mpft, als fürchte man, die Kranke zu st?ren.

Etwas Totes, Gedrücktes lag über dem Geh?ft; und je mehr das trübe Sonnenlicht vorrückte, in desto gr??ere Lautlosigkeit verfiel das Anwesen.

In dem weiten, zur ebenen Erde gelegenen Zimmer wurde ein schwacher Ruf laut. Kr?nklich, hohl, gebrochen, ein wenig gereizt klang er, aber so leise die Stimme auch flüsterte, sofort fuhr aus dem ledernen Sessel neben dem Bette ein Mann von m?chtiger, imposanter Gestalt auf, rieb sich ein wenig die Augen, strich ein paarmal energisch über seine dicken, kurzgeschorenen Haare und legte dann seine Finger behutsam auf die Hand der leidenden Frau.

?Na, Elsing,? forschte er aufmunternd, wobei er seine Stimme soviel als m?glich herabd?mpfte, ?geht's ein bi?chen besser??

Statt einer Antwort rang die Angeredete die H?nde und vergrub ihr Antlitz in die Kissen: ?Du lieber Gott,? st?hnte sie leise, und es war beinahe, als ob aus dem wei?en Linnen ein Schluchzen dr?nge.

Der Mann lie? seine Hand aufs Knie sinken und starrte auf den hellen, sandbestreuten Estrich der Stube.

Pl?tzlich warf sich das junge Weib herum und forschte hastig: ?Du bist wohl eingeschlafen, Wilms??

Seltsam, – neidisch fast schien die Frage.

?Ja, ich bin ein wenig eingenickt,? gab der Gatte zu. Und wieder konnte man leise Entschuldigung aus den Worten h?ren. ?Ich sitz' ja nun auch bald die vierte Nacht so,? murmelte er halb für sich.

Es wurde still.

Aus der Ecke nur t?nte das schwere Tick-tack einer unf?rmlichen Kastenuhr, und zuweilen knirschte der Sand unter dem Stiefel des Mannes.

Die Leidende seufzte und schien die rechte Lage nicht finden zu k?nnen. Endlich streckte sie sich und blickte in das trostlose Grau des Regentages hinaus.

Welche Traurigkeit dort drau?en und hier drinnen.

Gegen die Fenster st?ubte der Regen, Hagelk?rner schlugen scharf gegen die Scheiben, und über die Wangen der Liegenden flo? eine Tr?ne.

?L?sch' die Lampe aus, Wilms,? bat sie, ?meine Augen – es tut mir weh.?

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