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BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 19 | "I have my sources"
As Ronin pushed open the door to the cafe, he was greeted by a sensory explosion. The rich aroma of freshly brewed coffee tickled his nose, intermingling with the tantalizing scent of baked goods. The lively chatter of patrons filled his ears, accompanied by the clinking of cups and saucers and the whirring of the coffee machines. After a few moments of scanning the bustling cafe, Ronin’s keen eyes settled on the man he was there to meet. He spotted him nestled in a cozy corner near the window, engrossed in a book. As Ronin made his way towards him, the aroma of freshly brewed coffee was replaced with a hint of musty paper, emanating from the stacks of books lining the shelves. Moving with purpose through the maze of tables and chairs, Ronin deftly navigated the sea of patrons. He quickly sidestepped a busy waitress carrying a tray of steaming drinks, her apron brushing against his arm as he passed. He then navigated around a group of friends engaged in lively conver
Last Updated : 2023-11-16BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 20 | “You and your crazy ideas"
Carmen sat on the bench for what felt like hours, her mind in turmoil. Eventually, she made the difficult decision to leave the cruise. She couldn’t see any reason to stay, even though she wanted to know why Simon had done what he did. She was exhausted and done with everything that was going on around her. The constant hurt, betrayal, and lies had taken their toll, and she needed a break, a fucking break.Had it not been for Molly stopping her from boarding that flight, she would have been sitting contentedly with her dad. She wouldn’t have met Simon, and she wouldn’t be standing at this perplexing crossroads in her life. Now, her biggest problem was figuring out what she should do next. Should she simply accept whatever came her way as fate, or should she take action and ensure that those who had made her life miserable were held accountable?The uncertainty of her situation weighed heavily on her mind. She felt lost, trapped in a maze with no clear
Last Updated : 2023-11-16BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 21 | "No choice?"
Carmen couldn’t help but roll her eyes as she watched Molly eagerly jump onto the bed, her excitement radiating off her like a burst of confetti.“Seriously, it’s your very first day on the cruise, and of course, the first thing you want to do is hit the party scene,” Carmen exclaimed, unable to hide a mixture of amusement and exasperation. With a theatrical flop onto Molly’s neatly made bed, Carmen let out a sigh and shook her head in mock disapproval.The sun’s warm rays filtered through the cabin window, casting a soft glow on the two friends. Carmen’s eyes lingered on Molly’s contagious enthusiasm, admiring her carefree spirit. She gave her buddy a tight smile, wondering how she got so blessed to have at least one person in her life she could completely rely on.Because let’s get real for a moment—with the exception of her father, Carmen always felt like she had been let down by everyone in her life
Last Updated : 2023-11-17BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 22 | “What the hell?”
The pool party on the cruise was exactly as Carmen had envisioned—noisy and packed.Standing on the upper deck balcony, she watched the thick crowd below, devoid of any room to move or breathe. Carmen couldn’t help but flinch, fearing getting lost in the sea of sweat, booze, and pulsating music.This was clearly not the place she belonged. The last time she found herself in a similar setting, she had gotten extremely intoxicated and ended up passionately making out with Simon in the back of his car. That encounter had sparked yet another source of stress in her life, one she didn’t want, but found herself unable to resist.Tonight, she had no intention of swaying like a drunken palm tree or being trapped in someone else’s arms. She was here because Molly didn’t want to go alone, and she was hoping to see Simon so they could finally have the talk that had been giving her anxious butterflies in the pit of her stomach since she made up
Last Updated : 2023-11-17BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 23 | "You're talking nonsense”
Carmen’s body turned to ice when Simon’s words hit her, completely baffling her about their meaning. She quickly turned to glance over her shoulder, fixating her gaze on his large hand gripping her wrist tightly.For some reason, she didn’t like the way he sounded.Dangerous.A little off.A voice inside her head told her to run, but her hand was in his possession, and she didn’t know if her guts were right or if she had just imagined that first jibe of warning that seemed to be burning on the front of her skull. Her whole buddy was suddenly buzzing, but suddenly all the voices in her head dropped flat.She raised her eyes from their hands to meet his gaze, and what she watched confirmed her intuition.Simon appeared unchanged, still as attractive as ever, but there was something unsettling in his eyes—something unhinged—they seemed to be staring at her with a hint of madness.She swallowed hard and
Last Updated : 2023-11-18BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 24 | "Can you hear me?”
Ronin had just left his suite when out of nowhere, a little girl came crashing into him. At first, he was completely caught off guard, wondering what the actual heck just happened. But then, he looked down and saw a little munchkin, no older than five, staring up at him with those innocent, doe-like eyes and a mischievous grin on her face.Ronin couldn’t for the life of him figure out what was so amusing about the whole situation, but he didn’t bother voicing his confusion. Instead, he gently grabbed the kid by her tiny shoulder, giving her a nudge to the side so he could make his way through the narrow corridor and hop into the elevator, heading downstairs for the party.However, he might have been done with the little girl, but the little girl was hardly done with him. Before he could catch her drift, she nabbed the phone from the pocket of his pants—as if she knew exactly where it was—and ran off in the opposite direction.“Hey!&
Last Updated : 2023-11-18BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 25 | "How’s that for the truth?”
“It happened so fast,” Carmen uttered, her head buried in her hands while perched on the couch in Ronin’s room. “I didn’t even realize what was going on, and he just pulled me into the hallway and locked me in one of those rooms.”She was still struggling to comprehend the whole ordeal. How did she become the focus of someone’s obsession? It was incredibly difficult to grasp, not to mention absolutely terrifying. She couldn’t even fathom the consequences if Ronin hadn’t come to her rescue in the nick of time. Her thighs were still shaking just thinking about it.“That jerk really knows how to play the charming prince,” Ronin muttered quietly as he placed a glass of water on the table in front of Carmen and leaned against the sliding glass door that led to the balcony. “What happened to your phone?”“He took it."“And what did he say he would do once he returned it?” Carmen took a deep breath and nervously fidgeted with the hem of her skirt. “He wanted a definitive answer.”“Answer to
Last Updated : 2023-11-19BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 26 | "Getting a little feisty, huh?”
“What the fuck is taking so goddamn long?” Simon snarled into the phone, bursting into his office and planting himself behind the desk.It had been fifteen agonizing minutes since he instructed Randy Perez, the security chief, to bring him the footage of Carmen leaving the locked room. He was dying to see who the hell had the audacity to waltz onto his turf and disrespect him like that.However, fifteen minutes had gone by, and he hadn’t received any updates from the team.Randy swallowed nervously. “Boss, we’re doing everything we can, but something… something went wrong. Our screens are blank. We’re trying to figure out what happened.”“Again? What the hell am I paying you useless idiots for? Do you exist solely to disappoint me every damn hour of the day? I swear to fucking Christ, Perez, you have ten goddamn minutes to get this shit sorted, and if you can’t? Don’t you ever fucking show your face to me again? Understood, damn it?”Simon’s face flushed with anger as he paced behind
Last Updated : 2023-11-19
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After seeing off her parents, Grandpa Edgar—who had been on bed rest ever since his last attack—, Eric and Ronin, Willow sat in the car with Carmen, while Molly sat in the back. None of the kids came to the airport with them.For a long while, no one said anything. But then, Molly broke the silence with a very strange question. “So, just to be sure, does that time-traveling device really work?”Carmen scoffed while Willow wasn’t sure what to say. In the past month, she had been experiencing a bit of memory lapse. She remembered a lot of things, but certain incidents felt like a dream now, like a movie she had watched and forgotten about, and now couldn’t even recall the title or the story.She shrugged. “Maybe? Maybe not? Who cares? I’m just glad we got rid of it.”“Yeah,” Molly nodded in agreement. “True. But still, though. Imagine having a device like that. What do you think, Carmen? Do you think the world would have benefited from something like that?”Carmen kept her eyes on the ro
BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 133 | "No need to be creepy for so long.”
Willow sat in her room, staring at their family photo that was taken at Carmen and Ronin’s home party a month ago, the day when they announced their second pregnancy.Such a happy day it was.Sure, it was followed by all kinds of bad things, with Lewis Ladder trying to be the mean bastard and wanting his revenge on Diana, to make her pay for what she stole from him. But in the end, everything was fine again. They all made it safe and sound, and no one was terribly hurt. Simon Walsh had disappeared all over again and Diana was back to being secretive about her relationship with that son-of-a-bitch.Well, not that it mattered right now.Willow was pulled out of her thoughts when she heard the knock on the door.When she looked up from the photo she was staring at, she was surprised to find Ronin’s head peeking inside.He looked so silly doing that, it reminded her of their childhood.She scoffed, shaking her head. “Come on, inside. No need to be creepy for so long.”“Thank God,” he fake
BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 132 | "What are you all standing here for?"
The next morning, Jasper and Molly arrived early morning at the Logan’s old mansion. Behind them, Ronin and Carmen got out of their car too.Alice and Ryan squealed seeing each other and before anyone could stop them, they took off inside, ignoring the calls of everything behind them.“God, these kids!” Molly gushed, shaking her head. “They don’t know how to take a pause, do they?”Carmen chuckled, giving Molly a side hug. “Of course, they don’t. Did you forget already? You were just as hyperactive if not less. Did you tell Jasper about that one time when you got lost in the next neighbourhood?”The mention of the incident caused Molly’s cheeks to warm and turn pink. She shoved Carmen away. “No? And he doesn’t need to know.”“What’s not to know?” Appeared Jasper from behind, locking the car and staring at them with strange curiosity, assured that he just missed on something worth knowing.Molly groaned. “Nothing,” she glared at Carmen, silently warning her to not say another word or e
BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 131 | "You have to remember that”
“Are you sure you wanna do this?” Simon asked while Diana stared ahead, arms crossed over her chest.“I have to,” she shrugged, not taking her eyes off the building in front of them. The one that was shut down by the government aeons ago, realizing that the time travelling device held more dangers than they were equipped to handle, and that the money put into such a project was better spent somewhere else.Perhaps they were right. Perhaps the world wasn’t ready for such advancements just yet.Perhaps they would never be. And that was okay.“This is the only way we can put an end to this madness for real.”Simon hummed, nodding slowly. “Well then, what are you waiting for? Let’s do the honours.”Diana breathed in a deep breath, realizing it was time. She took out a small remote from her purse and pressed the only red button on it.In the next moment, there was a loud explosion and the building before them blew up in a huge blast of fire, taking everyone and everything with it.———“What
BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 130 | "Alright then, have a good life"
*One Month Later*Willow sat in her car and stared at the lone gate standing in the middle of nowhere.“Alright. You can do this,” she said to herself and took a deep breath. But then she frowned, biting her bottom lip. “Or maybe you shouldn’t. It’s not like, you know, he cares.” But what if he did? What if this could still work?She didn’t know. Oh God, she didn’t know anything.After that incident with Diana a month ago, it took weeks to get everything back to normal. As Willow had already feared, Diana slowly forgot everything about the time traveling and their conversation about it. The only thing she remembered, and so did everyone else, was talking about the device, stealing it, hiding it, and trying to protect it from getting into the wrong hands. But no one actually remembered doing it. If that made any sense at all.Willow had no idea what exactly the science behind it was, but she was the only one who remembered. Or at least, she remembered a little bit of it. The truth was e
BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 129 | "Or else I’m screwed”
“STOP IT RIGHT NOW!”Simon’s deep voice rumbled throughout the house, leaving not a single person untouched. From the look on his face, it was clear he had hell in his mind. And why wouldn’t he? The sight in front of him was not only disgusting but a complete disaster.In one corner of the house, Carmen stood with her hands tied above her head to a rope that connected her to the fan.In a different corner, Ronin was held back by two men, while a third man aimed a gun at his temple. Simon noticed Ronin had been shot once in the shoulder, and now blood had soaked a part of his shirt completely. At the top of the stairs, there was a very teary, very distressed little boy, held tightly by another giant-looking man.Last but not least, Diana was sprawled on the floor on her back, two men pinning her to the ground while a third sat on her chest, almost choking her.Simon had no choice but to show his displeasure at the sight.He shook his head and huffed. “Dammit! Let’s be honest, this is th
BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 128 | "Pull up her..."
Diana had understood by now that no matter what deed you do, if someone considers it to be wrong, then you have no choice but to pay the price for it.“Please, I beg you,” she fell to her knees, joined her hands and pleased. “Let my daughter go. Let her family free. Punish me however you want, I won’t say a word. Please, just spare my daughter. Spare my daughter for God’s sake!”To Diana’s huge disappointment, the leader only laughed, and so did his minions, as they cracked and doubled over, enjoying the poor predicament of the old woman.“You, assholes!” Ronin snapped, hating everything happening in front of him, wanting nothing more than to kill all those bastards. “Do you have any conscious or not? How could you enjoy this? Are you even humans?”“No. We are not. Satisfied now?” The leader asked, bored, rolling his eyes. But then those same eyes glinted and something wild passed his dangerous face. “We are monsters. We are trained to bring our enemies to their knees, no matter what
BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 127 | "Or maybe I do.”
Diana returned to the living room and joined Carmen and Ronin.The dozen men continued to keep an eye on them, not giving them even a minute of break.Diana sat quietly, trying to figure out how to get out of their current predicament. She knew her daughter could see how badly she was fidgeting. She knew Ronin could see that she was hurting. But there was nothing she could do. It was after a very long time she was feeling so helpless, so useless, so damn stupid.“Mom, are you okay?” Carmen asked, his voice as sweet and gentle as ever. “What happened inside? Did it work?”Diana could understand the desperation in her daughter’s eyes. Carmen wanted nothing more than to run to her son and hold him tightly to her chest. But these men…these ruthless and pain-in-the-ass men were denying her the most basic and satisfying thing in the world. And it was all because of her mistakes. If only she hadn’t…“Mom?” Carmen spoke again, and Diana had no choice but to be honest.“No. It didn’t work,” sh
BILLIONAIRE'S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE 126 | "Then whose fault is it?
Willow sat on the side of the road and stared at the main gate of the Logan residence. It was still too far away for any of the men inside to spot them, but over the last few years, Willow had visited the place so many times, she remembered every single tree and bird along the way.Dawn had broken long ago, and now the sun glared down at them from the peak of the day. It was hot as hell outside, but no matter how many times Dan told her to get inside the car and take respite from the cruel heat, she couldn’t move. It was as if she wanted to punish herself for everything that led to this day. Perhaps if she hadn’t toyed with time, this day wouldn’t have arrived. But something had definitely alerted those men—the organization—and she couldn’t come up with any reason to blame other than herself. She was the one responsible for this. Then why wasn’t she the one to take the brunt of it too? How was any of this fair?“You do realize what you’re doing is not actually helpful, right?” Dan’s v
