All Chapters of A Second Life With The Billionaire : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Luna waited until her mother had put on her favorite baking music, ‘Dear Future Husband by Meghan Trainor’, before dropping the bomb on her. “Moira Lake invited me to a party,” she paused for two seconds, “and I’m going.” The fast intro beat of the music rolled in comically at that very same moment. Mira Jones turned slowly to look at her daughter. “What?” she asked softly. Luna swallowed as she stared at her mother. She knew her mother was softhearted and calm most of the time, which made her weary of her on the few times she wasn’t either of those things. And Luna had a feeling this moment would be one of those times. “Moira Lake invited me to a party,” Luna said again, “and I’m going. Not because I want to, but because I have to.” “Why?” Mira asked, exasperation in her tone. Luna turned back to what they were doing, they were in her mother’s kitchen in her home. They were baking, an activity that they both enjoyed doing together, and that they did at least once

Luna closed her eyes as she recognized the voice to be Moira’s. Shit, she thought to herself. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, she thought repeatedly to herself.Slowly, she opened her eyes and looked at Rita for a few seconds before finally turning to face Moira. She was dressed as elegantly as always, and she looked as cold and vicious as Luna was starting to believe she was born to.“Speak of the devil, and she shall appear,” Rita leaned down to whisper in her ear.Luna watched as Moira’s gaze shifted to Rita, she watched as her icy blue eyes raked from the top of Rita’s head down to her toes. “You brought a,” Moira paused intentionally, “friend.”“I did,” Luna replied.There was silence for a bit after that, Moira didn’t offer her hand in greeting, Rita didn’t introduce herself. Finally, Moira smiled at Rita, her smile cracking at the corners a little bit from the force she applied to it.“What is your name, dear?” she asked.“Rita Heron,” Rita replied, she still didn’t st

Luna sipped from her champagne flute as she lazily scanned the party with her eyes. She was determined to take it slow on the drinking tonight, she wasn’t going to get buzzed like the other night.Rita had stepped out to make a call, no doubt something that had to do with the office. Rita took her job very seriously, even more than Luna herself. She was always available 24/7 and she never lets her company phone where she received company calls, out of her sigh for even one minute. The thing was practically glued to her hand.Luna smiled a little, she knew how lucky she was to have someone so dedicated in her corner, she didn’t even need anyone to tell her that.“Poor girl,” Luna heard someone say behind her.Luna turned her head just a little to glance briefly at who was talking, she saw three women standing and talking with champagne flutes in their hands. Luna turned back as the women continued talking.“I know,” another one said, “All that child ever did was suffer in that wit

Present.She hadn’t been lucky, Luna thought to herself now as she remembered that first night. Eileen and her friends had been right, by the time Moira was done with her, Luna could barely recognize herself.For weeks after she returned home, she hadn’t been able to eat very well, she had barely functioned. She had been a ghost of herself. Luna stared into her eyes staring back at her in the mirror of the restroom. She could see shadows of that lost Luna again. Juts faintly, she could see them again. And because of that, she turned away from the mirror.She walked towards the door, she opened it and walked out of the restroom. Just as she entered the hall, the anchor for the party was introducing Moira as he invited her to the stage.“The woman who made all this possible, shareholder and co-founder of Lake Enterprises, the formidable and indomitable….”“ ‘Indomitable’,” Rita said as she walked back in to join Luna, she scoffed, “I guess we know who hired him.”Luna looked ove

The next day, Luna leaned back in her chair, she was in her office, Rita was there too. Luna flicked her favorite pen between her fingers as she thought. She and Rita were trying to think of a satisfactory way to deal with Moira, to pay her back for her little stunt at her party the night before.“We could steal one of her employees too,” Luna suggested.“And have one of those beady eyes employee working for her to come and spy on us here?” Rita scoffed and shook her head, “No. No, we need something that will burn her, some sort of project or thing she loves and puts her heart into it.”Luna looked at her friend dryly. “First of all, Moira Lake doesn’t have a heart,” she said, “ergo, she doesn’t have the capacity to love anything the way you’re suggesting. Family is the only exception to her. And secondly, I don’t want to burn her, I want to crush her.”Luna’s hand tightened on her pen as she thought about it. Moira Lake has been a thorn in her side from the moment she set eyes on