Billionaire's Second Chance With You

ow hum of street vendors calling out by-passers.It wa the kind of city where everything moved quickly

her. The firm l worked at was just a few blocks away, but every morning felt like a race against time. With each

at winter was right around the corner, and with i

l had left. It had taken away everything from.me when l lost him, the one per

to remember the way things used to be,

re L

dow refusing to fade. I loved him, loved him with a desperation that had con

didn't have room for weaknesses, and l couldn't afford to be an

hone to see an email from my boss, Daniel Wright. Another set of revisions needed for a case l'd been

attention to the world around me as l mentally pre

plashing across the front of a perfectly navy blue tailored suit. I gasped, horrified

n unreadable as he looked down at the coffee stains

i

one everything l could to erase him from my life. And yet, there he was, st

ir was now neatly styled,but those blue eyes,the sa

the universe itself had paused just for a moment.l could hear the hum of the c

he spoke

hat l had once called home,the voice t

made me fee

to focus. "Liam?" l repeated,

as not trying to smile. But l could see it in h

gan, but l cut him off, my v

e whirlwind of emotions that had suddenl

"No,it's fine. l'm

the years of silence, all he could muster was surprise? My chest tightened at

id,as though as it was the mos

, " No, it's fine. I'm

glint in his eyes now,something l co

y more, but l couldn't find th

't move

up at him

he words coming out with an unexp

didn't respond. It had been five years,and h

hand brushing lightly against my arm. " l know d

on to listen,to hear him out,to let him explain.

or that," l said, my voic

t in his eyes unmistak

o pass. I walked away quickly, trying to steady

my walk to work was the one question l co