All Chapters of A Second Life With The Billionaire : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

“What in the world is wrong with this day?” Rita demanded minutes later.Honor had gone, and Rita was once again back in Luna’s office. This time though, she wasn’t seating down as she had been before, she was pacing.“No, seriously, what in the world is wrong with this day?” Rita demanded again. “Can nothing go right today?”Unlike Rita, Luna was seated, her head was thrown back on the headrest of her chair. Her eyes were closed.“Please, don’t jinx it,” she murmured.“You only jinx good days,” Rita said. “This one’s a day from hell. And it’s not even nine o’clock yet.”Rita sighed, she continued pacing.“First, the ex mother-in-law, who guards the hell we’re talking about here, comes to sink her claws into you and drop a bomb, and merely minutes after, the new shiny thing on the block- who is also a spawn of the she-devil ex mother-in-law from hell- comes in to do virtually the same.” Her eyes still closed, Luna heard, rather than saw, Rita’s hands fall to her sides. “I mean,

Luna read through the account statements her accounting division had sent to her via email a few hours ago. It was 11:59AM, her entire morning had been a series of going through account statements and expense reports. Luna wouldn’t call accounting her favorite part of her job, but she liked seeing the evidence of the work her company was doing outlined in spreadsheets, the positive and negative arranged in rows and columns. The practicality of it all helped her to stay on track with what was done, what was being done, what should be done and what needed to be done in the future.Without spreadsheets and accounting, Luna knew there would be chaos and imbalance. When there was chaos and imbalance, there was no control. And having been a woman with no control once before in a period of her life, Luna was not eager to give up the reins of control just yet now that she’d found them.Luna let out a breath as she realized she had let her mind wander there again. ‘There’, the place she ha

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

“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

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