The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 10
Isabella grabbed her phone from where she had thrown it onto the sofa earlier and then groaned. She muttered an expletive forcing Cam to lift his eyebrows and she looked at him.
“Evgeni or Portia?”
“Both but worse, there are six missed calls from my mother.” She sighed as if it bothered her more than the calls from the others. “I need to call her back.” She grimaced as he sat down near her on the sofa, and she held her fingers to her lips.
e first ring, “Isabella?”
his baby sister was on a date with a much older white man.
the woman was on a rant.
ly what Isabella was going through. He grinned broadly when her mother questioned whether she was dating was some rich old white guy just to give her a heart attack.
on’t know why Elian told you I’m dating an old white man. He is obviously trying to redirect your attention on me. I went to dinner with a man whose last name is Torres and he’s younger than Elian.”
name is Torres?”
razil and Mexico.”
do?”
h?”
ink bad thoughts while she talked to her mother. It was weird.
han you. Does he have kids? Wa
e in direction, she spoke quickly. “I’m not sure why they would do such a thing Mama, it is indeed cruel and horrible to do to you. You should call him and ask him about it.” She didn’t even get to say goodbye before her mother hung up.
ands to her flaming cheeks and cringed, “Oh my god, she’s incredibl
own.” He leaned back against the cushions. “Why did you throw your brother under the bus?”
r grin as a text message popped up on her phone. “Elian?”
” she smirked,
but I couldn’t do it to my parents. I couldn’t imagine not having Christmas dinner with them.”
”
he flight there and back.”
he diall
n isn’t stressing out?”
enter in the info it asks for,” she laughed over her shoulder as she walked away, “the WIFI password is daddylovesmemost, all one word.”
ite. I’m the son he alw
up the stairs.
enjoying the sound of his roar of laughter at the bottom of
hands behind his back.
nny for your thoughts?”
didn’t even hear you come down the stairs. You’re stealth
nto the sofa and pulled the phone to her. She patted the seat and smiled as Casper who had followed her into the room jumped up beside her.
in tune to his mistress.
” she waved between them, “was supposed to make it stop.”
t me.”
ted it and then looked at Cam, “he wants to know how you compare.”
in him shortly.” He motioned to the phone, “you didn’t answer him.”
n’t owe him a response.”
ld-digging w***e who couldn’t land a small fish like Evgeni so I shouldn’t even try the b
h her in the morning. We are sup
’s your daughter but she’s an a*****e,” Isabella said seriously.
.” He met her eyes, “I didn’t even know Portia existed until five years ago.”
om Clara.
op buying her whatever she wanted and came across Portia and her mother. I saw her mother and recognized her, but I saw Portia. Damned if Portia isn’t the spitting image of my sister at her age. I have one sister. Nothing like running into an ex-lover you haven’t seen in fifteen years in a lingerie shop while with a new lover and realizing the kid she has with her is yours.”
ld process it.” She wondered what his new lover had purchased in the lingerie shop.
nds of her. When she turned sixteen, she dumped her on my doorstep and told me she was my nightmare to deal with.”
re. So suddenly I had a sullen teenager w
eds to be the best at everything. The best looking, the best dressed, the best partier, the best boyfriend,” she sighed, “if he was heaping the kind of attention on her, he did to me, she probably lapped it up like a puppy.”
for a moment and pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingertips.
aris for a date night. He booked a stupid expensive hotel s
, he was trying to smooth things over as we’d had a fight the prior weekend, but he always was pulling
ike the guy knew how to pull out all the stops
ng it. If I want something, I will get it. I mean, usually I hear Mama’s voice in my head asking me if I really need it or not, but I’ll still buy it,” she smiled as he chuckled, “but at the end of the day, doing things just to have accolades seems pretentious and obnoxious.”
h Portia?”
a weekend just so you can have a huge party with your closest hundred friends.” She grimaced, “the last one by the way sucked because I can count my closest friends on one hand maybe two hands. Ninety-five of Evgeni’s friends is a lot to contend with.”
ently, “no bloody wonder she’s off her
W
zing,” she looked at him with her nose turned up, “but they lied to him. Every picture he sends is a close-up for a reason.”
sly, “why are you telling me this?”
amina could cure her of her Evgeni hang-ups.”
ghter.”
fted one-shoulder up in a sh
is about face. “Uh, okay.”
what was happening with Portia and Evgeni. In fact, I didn’t even know they were dating until this week. If he was,” he waved his arm as he t
rm is love bombing.”
she’s hurting. I need to go have a talk wit
ll as far as first dates go, this one was the weirdest I’ve ever been on.”
all you.”
the door. “Pizza.”
andful of bills to the delivery guy in exchange for the pie. “It smells really good.”
im as he stepped past her out the d
ected.
his departing back. She looked to Casper who sat at the edge of the living room staring at her curiously. “I don’t get it either buddy,” she said as she realized she was feeling strangely sad at