All Chapters of The Billionaire Desire: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

CHAPTER ONEDiane's POVSeptemberLife hits me again. A realization that I never wanted to show or hits me.Tears haven’t stopped since I ran to my dorm room earlier today. Tears that have left my skin raw and tight. And every time I think I’m all crying out, the image of Justin and her flashes inside my head and a fresh wave hits. I wiped my dripping nose on my sweatshirt sleeve. I’m far past the point of caring what I look like."I didn’t mean for it to happen, Diane. I swear."Lies.... Lies."You didn’t mean for it to happen! You didn’t mean to put your..."My words fall apart with my sobs. I can barely see Justin’s face through my tears."Who is she, anyway?" He brushes his own tears away with his palm and then reaches for my face, cupping my cheeks."Some girl I fvcked with.""You are my whole life. You’ve always been my whole life. Always! You know that, right? Tell me you know that!"I swallow against the sharp knot lodged in my throat, but it doesn’t budge. I knew that up unti

CHAPTER THREEDiane POVMayI inhale deeply, reveling in the crisp ocean air as land approaches ahead. Two layovers, a flight delay, and fifteen hours later, thefifty-five-degree day’s high had dipped to the low forties, and I had to take my jacket on.“Have you ever been to Palawan before?” the captain, a soft-spoken white-haired man named River, asks, his hands resting easily on the ferry’s wheel.I shake my head, my gaze drifting over the sea of evergreen and rock as far as the eye can see. We left the dock thirty minutes ago. It didn’t seem like it would take that long to cross, but Bay is vast and wide and unlike anything I’ve ever seen.And on the other side of it is my home for the next four months. I’m so glad I remembered to pop an Antivert an hour before boarding. I’d be puking over the rails by now had I not. Boats and I have never coexisted well.“So, what made you come?” I can tell River likes to talk, as much for conversation as to assess the foreigners coming to his ho