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Billion Dollar Man Day Off
MilaI should have worked on Friday, but I took a personal day instead. The board had taken one look at me and granted me the time off.I was exhausted. It wasn’t just lack of sleep or because I was overworked. My soul was tired.So much had happened on my last shift and I wasn’t able to cope with it very well. I was emotionally drained.The mother of three passing away, although she was nothing to me, had really knocked me hard. I couldn’t let go of it, and I found that I cried myself to sleep about it sometimes.It didn’t help that my tears were already so close to the surface, thanks to Ben and what he’d done to me. It was his fault that everything else was suddenly impossible to deal with. I was always so strong, I could handle whatever came my way. Sure, sometimes it was hard. But that didn’t mean that I couldn’t do it.Now, I felt like I was on the verge of breaking completely.I had managed to get through work yesterday, but it had taken a toll on me. I had mulled over what Ben
Billion Dollar Man All Out of Love
MilaMy phone rang. I let it roll over to voicemail. I knew it wouldn’t be Ben.When it stopped ringing and started right up again, I knew who it was. Skylar was the only person that knew that she had to keep trying when I wasn’t okay. And she knew how broken I was.After Ben had left on Wednesday, I had called her, crying about what he’d done to me.“I thought you were avoiding calls,” she said when I answered. “Get dressed and come over. You need to get out of the house.”“How did you know I wasn’t dressed?”“Because you’re miserable. You’re probably in your towels.”Skylar knew me too well.“I don’t think I’m going to come over, today,” I said. I wasn’t in the mood.“I’m not asking, I’m telling. Come on, you have to do something.”I sighed and agreed. Skylar was right, and if anyone could mobilize me, it was my best friend. At least I still had her.I changed into jeans and a t-shirt, ballerina flats and pulled my hair into a ponytail because it had dried like shit after all.When
Billion Dollar Man Written Off
BenThe moment I touched down in New York I was caught up in the fever of the city. I was thrown into the deep end at work, and I had to tread water all the time. I didn’t even have time to think about Mila and everyone else back home.And that was a good thing. I knew the moment I thought about Mila too long I would feel terrible for what I had done to her. And I would struggle with a broken heart because by hurting her, I had also hurt myself.On Saturday morning, I met with Ms. Houghton again. The realtor had been all too happy to hear from me. Even though I hadn’t taken the other place, she knew I had money judging by the houses she showed me, and if she sold one to me, it meant her paycheck was going to be a big one.“It’s a pity the other place was scooped up, after all,” she said to me after we made small talk. “It was a perfect fit for you. But not to worry, I have a few houses for you to look at.”I wasn’t in the mood to fuss. When we’d gone through the first house with Ms. H
Billion Dollar Man Pay Them Off
BenOne day, when I managed to handle this nasty business with the Mafia and my dad’s fuckup, I would go back to Mila and fix things.I could only hope and pray that she would still be there when I managed to get back to her.My phone rang while I was on the treadmill. I pressed the button to stop it and hopped onto the sides with wide legs. I was breathing hard, sweat pouring over my face and down my back, drenching my clothes.“Yeah?” I asked.“It’s David,” he said. “Can we meet? I have news.”“Yeah,” I said. “Give me an hour.”We arranged for David to come to my place, and I ended the call. I hopped off the treadmill. My legs were like jelly. I had been planning to run until failure, and I had come halfway when I’d been interrupted. I showered to get rid of all the sweat and changed into khaki pants and a Polo shirt. When David arrived, I buzzed him up and waited for him in the foyer which the elevator opened directly onto.“Thank you for seeing me,” David said when he arrived. He
Billion Dollar Man Big Shot
BenAs long as I knew that everyone back home was safe, I wasn’t going to let myself freak out. Victor Brantley, my new worst enemy, had been seen in Portland with two of his henchmen. David Thomas, my PI, had been keeping tabs on them for me after I realized that my father had run into serious debt with the Mafia. My father had been killed because of it. So had Uncle Dean.The Mafia was the reason I had to run back to New York, again, leaving a friendship, a relationship and a family behind in Portland. I blamed my father’s debts and what the Mafia was doing for ruining my relationships, too.But I wasn’t bitter. I was far too busy trying to fix his mess to be bitter. I was only worried sick that something was going to happen to Mila or to Jerrod or any of the other people that I cared so much about.That was one of the things they had threatened my father with – picking off the people he loved, one by one. So far, they had proven they weren’t playing games.My plan was to pay them t
Billion Dollar Man They Have Her
Ben“I’ll contact you the moment I know something,” David said. The line went dead without a goodbye. Either his cash had run out on the payphone or he’d had nothing else to say. David didn’t exactly stand on formality.From where I sat in my office in New York, I couldn’t do anything about Mila being missing. I felt helpless, and I hated it. I tried to focus on work again, but there was no way I could concentrate when I knew that something was wrong.I felt like I was going to burst out of my skin. So, I left the office. I didn’t know what I was going to do once I went back home, but I couldn’t just sit here and pretend nothing was wrong.My phone rang when I walked out of the building. Another unknown number. Maybe David had managed to reconnect.“We have your girl,” a voice said on the other side of the line when I answered. The voice was deep, gravelly, and my stomach clenched. “If you don’t do what we say, you’re not going to have a girl anymore.”I should have been terrified for
Billion Dollar Man Kidnapped
MilaWhen I opened my eyes, the concrete floor was at eye-level, cold against my cheek. Even though I’d been on it for a while.A long while, judging by how my body hurt when I rolled over onto my back. My neck hurt when I tried to turn my head from side to side, and it felt like my whole body was going to seize up if I moved too fast.I lifted my hand to my cheek. The cut had stopped bleeding not long after it had been made but the skin was tender and on fire. Inflamed, I was sure. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath in and let it out slowly. I had to stay calm. It was the only way I was going to get through this.How long had it been since I’d been taken? I had no way of knowing. There were no windows in the basement I had been put in, only a naked light bulb that was always on. Without the change from day to night and back again and with my phone taken away from me, I’d lost track of time completely. I didn’t even know if I’d slept for ten minutes or ten hours.It was on the lo
Billion Dollar Man What Will They With Me?
MilaVictor laughed again.“It doesn’t matter that you don’t know. All you need to know is that there will be a lot of pain involved.”He lifted his hand and brought it to my good cheek. I pulled my head away. But there wasn’t far I could go, and Victor’s fingers made contact with my skin. I jerked, making my head throb, nausea churning in the pit of my stomach.“Do you know what we do to pretty girls like you?” he asked.I didn’t want to answer him.“You’ll find out soon enough.”Victor dragged a thumb over my lower lip, and I trembled. I thought about the women I had seen coming in after they had been assaulted. I knew what men could do. Without thinking twice, I opened my mouth and bit Victor on the thumb.He jerked his hand back.“Fucking bitch!” he shouted and wound his hand up to hit me. I fell to the ground before he could. It took a very evil kind of man to kick a woman when she was down on the floor, and Victor wasn’t that evil. Thank God. He let out a shout that bounced arou
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