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A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter Forty-Six - The History
Flashback.Luna wrung her fingers together nervously as Moira Lake made her way towards her. She had heard of her, she had read about her, and none of the things she’s heard or read even came close to the real live version of the woman making her way towards her.Luna swallowed, and her nerves only became even more agitated with each step Moira took towards her. And then she stopped in front of Luna, and Luna’s nerves calmed instantly. They had no choice but to be calm in the presence of such power.Moira’s gray eyes stared into hers, and Luna found herself hit with a mental punch to the gut from the force of power in the eyes staring at her. And Luna knew all the magazines and newspapers hadn’t been lying when they said Moira Lake was a ‘powerful woman’, she literally carried the power in every inch of her body.She smiled. Luna could see hints of warmth in her eyes as she did, and yet she got the feeling that even that was commanded there by Moira. The directness of Moira’s ga
Last Updated : 2024-08-02A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter Forty-Seven - The Loss
Present.Luna stood on the porch as she watched Matt wave to her and drive away, she remained where she was for a little while longer, staring morosely into the dark night. She was feeling…. sad, was the word. All through the ride home, a melancholic feeling had been weighing heavily on her heart, and she knew the origin of the feeling.You know who just acted like? Moira. She couldn’t get the words, or the implication of them, out of her head. Breeze blew, Luna rubbed her hands down her arms to warm away the chill it brought. She finally turned to walk into her house, worried she might freeze to death if she stood outside for too much longer.Normally, Luna’s ritual was to command the lights on as soon as she walked in, but this time, she didn’t. Somehow, tonight, the dark fitted her, and the lights would have been too bright. She was wallowing, she realized. Or, she wanted to wallow, she amended silently.Luna rubbed a hand over her chest as she stood in the middle of her livi
Last Updated : 2024-08-02A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter Forty-Eight - The Meeting
“Are you sure you’re going to be okay?” Rita asked Luna.Luna looked over at her and rolled her eyes, giving her a wry smile. “That’s the third time you’re asking me that question, and all in the short time we used to walk from the reception to the elevator.”The elevator doors slid open as Luna talked, she and Rita got in, the doors slid back closed again.“I’m fine,” Luna completed.Rita sighed and shrugged, giving her friend a worried look still. “Well, of course I’m asking repeatedly if you’re fine, because your lips are saying one thing, and your entire face is saying another.”Baffled, Luna’ brows furrowed. “What do you mean?”Rita stared at her. “Hello, have you looked in the mirror today? You look like hell. Did you even get any sleep last night?”Luna remembered what she had been doing all night; crying her eyes out over a sonogram picture. But even as close as she was to Rita, and how she felt she could tell her anything, she couldn’t tell her that. Not yet anyway. So
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Luna couldn’t focus all through the meeting. She barely heard a word, and that pissed her off. She might have joined the board for the gala as a step in her revenge plan, but she was a businesswoman, and she wouldn’t have joined the board if the project hadn’t shown promise of profit for her. And because she was a businesswoman, she also planned to contribute substantially to what was being done for the gala event. She didn’t plan on being a liability, Moira would be sure to remind her of it at every given opportunity if she was anyway.And Justin, or rather his penetrating gaze, was a distraction to that. She couldn’t focus, she barely heard a word of what the speaker had said during the meeting, and who would? She thought to herself, when eyes that were dark like midnight seared into their skin. She knew Justin well enough to know that that might have been his goal, that precisely. To unnerve her, make her uncomfortable, make her think of him. Like she was doing now. Damn you,
Last Updated : 2024-08-02A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter Fifty - The Ground
Maybe she didn’t know a lot about fashion, as Rita liked to remind her every time she helped her order a dress online, to substitute for the one Luna had originally picked. But even as fashion impaired as Luna might be, she recognized fine design work when she saw one. And as she ran her hands down the delicate embroidery on the the suit Andi had specially designed for her, she knew it was one of such fine works of design.One of many Andi was going to be designing for her, Luna thought to herself. Poaching Andi from Honor had been a good investment, if not for anything else, then for the upgrade her wardrobe definitely needed, and was going to be getting. She was new to the game, much like Andi, Luna thought to herself. She hadn’t had money for long, unlike the people she was playing the game with. She hadn’t been born with a silver spoon in her mouth or served to eat from a silver platter. Her family hadn’t been rich, but they had been happy. Happier than Luna has been in her lif
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Luna hated assholes. And the fact that she was sitting across from one right now did nothing to improve her already sour mood. “I’m sure we can come up with a middle ground that would work for both of us here, Mr. Pierre,” she said, hints of her frustration ragging around the edges of her words.Clayton Pierre, owner of Pierre Memorial Ground, the gravesite where Luna’s father was buried, and where Clayton was planning on selling, sat across from Luna in her visitor’s chair. He was a huge man, with a rounded belly and enough weight about him to crush a heavyweight champion to dust. He had gray hair- which was more shiny silver than gray- round the edges of his dark hair, his skin was smooth as a baby’s and tanned like he sorbet every waking moment under the sun.He had eyes that seemed to be both bored and alive at the same time. Like he could easily switch from looking like he was listening raptly to whatever you were saying to being completely bored out of his mind. Luna had b
Last Updated : 2024-08-09A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter Fifty-Two - The Family
Luna took a deep breath as she stared at the closed door in front of her. She was standing in front of her mom’s house, she was about to break the horrible news that she had failed to convince Clayton Pierre to sell the memorial ground to her, to her mother and sister. Luna took in a painful breath.She wiggled her fingers nervously before turning the knob on the door and opening it. She went inside.Her mother was seated in one of the one arm couch in the living room, her sister paced. They both turned as she walked in. Luna’s heart sank at the hopeful expressions on their faces, and she watched as they both read the result of her meeting with Clayton in her eyes.Her mother’s hands went up to cover her mouth, they trembled. Ashley’s eyes flickered, she swallowed, and the most shattering evidence of her pain were the tears that sprang into her eyes. Luna’s heart broke.“I’m so sorry,” she whispered, standing where she was.“What’s going to happen to him?” Ashley asked, her lips
Last Updated : 2024-08-09A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter Fifty-Three - The Unexpected
“There’s really nothing we can do, Miss Jones,” Carl Dallas, one of her lawyers said to her. “Clayton has sold the land already, it’s a done deal, according to my sources.”They were in a conference room, the one Luna used for meetings with her staff. Luna sat at the head of the table, Carl was seated to her left, Rita sat beside him, two more lawyers sat to Luna’s right. She had them all on retainer to serve as her corporate lawyers. And all of them were looking at her with the same helpless look.Luna looked at Carl, she looked into his eyes. He was the most experienced of the three lawyers, she had hired him first and they were sort of friends. She was friendlier with Carl than the remaining two, and so he was the one she looked at now.“Who exactly is your source?” she asked.“One of Clayton’s lawyers,” Carl replied. “He told me they drew up the papers this morning.”Luna closed her eyes. This morning, she thought, she had had Clayton in her office just this morning. Paul’s c
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A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Eight - The Revenge
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A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Six - The Debunking
The next day, the whole issue with Honor took a back seat in Luna’s mind as she found herself with an entirely different, and bigger, situation on her hands. Another article was leaked, this one about her father. It dug up the old news about her father, and the issue he had with Lake Industries, the debacle that had brought Luna to New York and to Justin. The article was all about rehashing what her father did, how he ‘betrayed’ Lake Industries for a handout, and how he disappeared from the grid because of his shame. His name, face and story were plastered all over the news article. Even her mother and sister were not left out, Mira and Ashley’s faces and names were printed in it too. Feeling sick about it all, Luna pressed a hand to her stomach, she stood still, trying to get in a deep breath. She was at home, people were in the house, Justin had called an emergency press conference immediately the news had hit the media. Camera men and their crew were moving about the living
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“I really needed that,” Luna said two hours later, as she and Justin walked back into the studio. Justin wiggled his eyebrows at her. “Which part?” Luna laughed, she swatted his arm playfully. “The food and nice view part, you pervert.” Justin shrugged. “Hey, you sounded like you enjoyed the other part very much too when we were doing it.” Luna laughed again, she shook her head. “You’re an idiot.” “An idiot you were screaming his name,” Justin leaned down and whispered into her ear. Luna looked up at him, her eyes widening. “Justin!” Somebody cleared their throat behind them, Justin and Luna both turned at the same time to look. The smile and teasing glint in her eyes were still there when Luna’s eyes met Honor’s. “Honor,” she said, startled. She sobered up immediately, Honor looked at Luna, like she focused on her like she was determined to act as though Justin was not there. Luna felt the freeze, but somehow she felt like Honor’s acknowledgement of her was not part
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One week later. Luna rubbed the kinks out of her neck, she had been stuck going through things that needed to be put in place for the Gala, all morning. All week too. Ever since Honor pulled her company out of the Gala event, there had been slacks in the work that needed to be done. Both in the parts that Honor had taken up to do, and in the aspects that her company had been taking care of. The fashion aspect. “These are really good,” Luna commented, looking at the design sketches that had been left by Honor and her company before she left. “Yeah,” Temperance, the assistant working with Luna on deciding the fashion angle for the Gala, said beside her. “Miss Kosarin and her people really worked hard on it, they worked almost round the clock too. It was like there was some competition or something.” Luna knew better that Temperance just what she was saying. From the first day they had met, she and Honor had both known there was going to be a competition between them. They had
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Present. Luna and Justin were both in Justin’s car, they were driving after Honor. After her announcement, Honor had dropped the mic and immediately left the party. Moira had been livid, she hadn’t shown it, of course, or at least not in an explosive way. She hadn’t screamed or shouted, or done anything of the sort. Even in the face of what someone like Moira would probably term the greatest betrayal of all time, she still hadn’t lost control. She hadn’t shown her anger to the guests or given them a show that they could go talk about to the blogs. No matter her personal feelings towards Moira, Luna had had to admit that she found that impressive. But even with her composure, Luna had known she was angry. In fact, it had been very obvious to her, and no doubt to her family members too. She saw the look Justin, Logan and even Brian, had exchanged when it happened. The vein that had popped out on Moira’s forehead had been the first tell, followed by the twitching at the corner of
A Second Life With The Billionaire Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Two - The Miscarriage
Flashback. “So you’re saying there’s nothing you can do?” Brandon asked the lawyer. Luna was in her room, the room she shared with Justin, although ‘shared’ was a strong word for how much time Justin actually spent in the room with her these days. Luna shook her head to shake off those thoughts, thinking about the ever increasing distance between she and Justin for the past month would only just make her depressed. And she didn’t have the time or head space for that. She refocused her attention on the matter at hand. She was in the room, her mother and father were on a call with her, Luna stared at their faces on the laptops screen. A man was seated beside her, Carl James, her lawyer. He was a low budget lawyer, the type she had been able to afford on her own, hers and her parents, that is. She couldn’t tap into the generous money Justin kept depositing into her account almost every day. And she couldn’t do that because she couldn’t very well use his money to hire a lawyer who
