All Chapters of Beyond Duties - The Billionaire's Game: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

"Venera, I have to do this - I'm sorry." Jordan finally stopped moving around and approached me again. Fresh, scared tears fell from my eyes as he leaned closer, his furrowed eyebrows highlighting his fierce stares. I watched as he bit his lower lip and my eyes followed his Adam's apple as it bobbed up and down when he swallowed. I felt my chin being tilted as his face drew closer and closer until our eyelashes met. The intense glow of his eyes made me shut my own, and the next thing I knew, he was already kissing me.Jordan's warm lips softly touched my trembling ones. I felt his tongue lick my lower lip and lightly bite it which made me moan and involuntarily open my mouth more.“Breathe, Venera…” I heard him whisper.Jordan’s soft growl somehow made me remember to release my breath and ev

Jordan's POV I've treated Conan's sudden disappearance also as a clue to what my father really wanted me to find out. It's true that Conan recorded himself and Alannah when they announced my taking over the family business, but I've never seen or heard from him in person since he filed for an indefinite leave. The only assurance I got that he was safe was when the recorded message gave me a sign that he was somewhere untraceable by whomever it was that he needed to hide from. I couldn't understand, though, why Dad would instruct Conan to "hibernate" while our older sister and I were out."Marco and his men could take care of me and Angelique," Alannah once told me. I knew that her billionaire husband would never let a fly touch her and his daughter, and it made me a little assured of my sister’s and my niece's safety. What I was more worried about was that it see

I went back to the jeep after a few minutes and felt like something wrenched my guts when I saw Vee staring out the window with lonely eyes. I wondered if I was causing her more pain than intended, but I really don't have any idea how to treat her. A part of me wants to forget about our age gap and just take her into my arms, but another side of me says that I should keep my distance. I'm not even sure if her heart already belongs to someone else. And I don't have a clue if she likes me or not. This is the first time I ever doubted how a lady feels for me.I found myself blocking Vee's view with my face. "Hey," she blinked several times before I came into focus. "We could stop at a mall in a hundred and fifty miles then you can buy any clothes you want." I heard myself say, in the hopes of making her feel better. She simply shrugged, and her pretty eyes stared through me and beyond the woods. I kind of fel

After their short vacation which turned out to be an investigation, Jordan and Vee had to go back to work to face their pending jobs in both of their families' businesses. Vee resumed the business refresher courses she had started taking to keep herself sharp and in the loop with industry standards. Afterall, she can’t always just rely on her advisors. On the other hand, while she engrossed herself in her projects for the Rustik-Yates Hotels, Jordan resumed his research on Conan's pending transactions for their company.The mall conversion of the Gallagher Industries branch in Asia was a big project and Jordan always found himself trapped in cadences and overseas meetings. He had to fly out of the country every other day and it deprived him of proper sleep. He remembered the days when he got deployed for special missions in far flung lands where he had to endure sleepless nights while on watch for th

Vee could still hear Guy and Lenka enthusiastically imagining and speculating things about her relationship with Jordan but her mind was still tainted by a familiar sinking feeling which she had been ignoring. I was a nagging sense of unease - she couldn’t shake the idea of him being reluctantly caught up in all the Yates-Gallagher ruckus which seems to be her father’s brainchild.Her suppressed thoughts of an image of Jordan looking silly while talking to the woman who called his mobile phone while they were out for lunch still lingered in her head, and she wasn’t sure how to address that.She had almost forgotten, but the magazine article she had seen at the gasoline station which featured Jordan’s younger years was also something to consider.The magazine feature was a lookback at when he had won his mixed martia