A Millionaire, His Suit And Poor Me – Part 29
“Jace, I didn’t want him to come! He… invited himself. And he left. And now he’s going to show up here, he’s going to be rude and I don’t know what to do because I don’t want to nothing to do with him. Tonight is supposed to be the time to meet Louis.” I’m going to continue ranting.
Jace frowned, handing me a carrot to cut. “It doesn’t matter, Noras. I just thought you’d be stronger than that.”
“I’m trying, okay? I’m trying. He just… I don’t know. He has this effect on me that I can’t explain.”
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lip. “Yeah, I mean, yeah. In
salad. Louis would arrive in thirty minutes, and Henris in an hour. So I had an hour to mentally prepare myself for his presence.
ess than five minutes, he felt it too.
my hands. “You, oh, out of my kitchen.”
my room looking for an outfit to wear, eventually choosing a pair of tight black jeans, a beige sweater, and four-inch black heels, w
r, he asked me to stop as he opened the door, immediately hugging our guest.
Black tattoos peeked out from her cleavage with words I couldn’t read.
the ankles to show more tattoos, and white Converse. A burgundy printed T-shirt and a denim jacket on to
ut you.”
stop talking.”
“Oh,
mble abode, drink our cheap wine and eat our steaks.”
wine.” He gave me a smirk.
Jace. “It’s a catch!”
eaks were almost ready and three glasses of wine had already been poured. We sat and sipped and chatted, waiting for the meat to be cooked and I questioned Louis trying to sound intimidating, but from the little smiles that appeared on his face every now and then, I knew I had failed.
tch. Jace stood around him with a look of adoration I’d never seen him give anyone before.
of wine, walked to the door and opened it, revealing a divi
im.
tle. “I brought your favorite wine, Noras.”
eyes of his st
!” Jace said, surprised
me people’s weekly wages. “We could go
rrupted politely.
d
t dinner went like this,
because they weren’t as intimidating as the
rsation in the other room, which now centered around a football player who Jace said was “incredibly cool” and, according to Henris,
on
d softly.
“Henry.” I imitated
h visibly gritted under his hand. “Why are you like that? It’s
, then you kissed me and then you came here, even though I told you not to, just because you think you are the king of the world. Well, you know what? You’re not.”
n look on his face. A vision of a
meeting. And I understand that, but it doesn’t matter because you’re not even my boyfriend. Yet you throw it in my face blaming me
ing. Grow up, Noras.” He
better than everyone, and that you can not
nk so.”
se leave before I do something stupid like kiss you
n my hips, as if only his touch could turn me to dust. “You’re
e mine. Did
e mine. I
hed with anger. My hair perfectly straight were now frizzy as I
to the side and back and pulled me closer to him. “
onest businessman.”
pulse of my heartbeat, which was right now
That’s
ld back tears. “I can’t
fingers stopped touching me. “What do you need
o relax and be like a normal f*****g pe
ou react to me. You
” I sighed.
OK? Can you just admit you were wrong
do anything like
o away.”
e.” I said on the verge of tears. “And don’t bother talking to me unles
ly pulled back, running his hands through his hair, looking deeply at me, which made me look down at the ground. I knew that if I had looked into his eyes, I wou
anged. Whispers came from the other room where Jace and Louis were probably worried by the screams coming from
like an hour of tense silence. “That’s
understand everything
ger, genuine confusion. “I don’t have to