A Second Life With The Billionaire

Luna was used to men staring at her by now. She was a successful woman in her late twenties, beautiful with- as it’s all men seem to be capable of thinking about- a great body.

So she was used to the stares. She didn’t let it bother her, because, in her opinion, the ones who actually had the guts to walk up to her were the real men. If staring was all a man does at a beautiful woman, then he probably didn’t deserve her.

She kept her head high and her gaze focused ahead as she walked into the conference room. There was a long mahogany table in the middle of the spacious room, office chairs lined both sides to the other door at the end of the room. Fluorescent lights shine over the flat surface, making the glass in the middle of the table, glimmer.

Men in suits were seated on both sides of the table, their laptops open in front of them. Some of them were typing on their laptops, while some were idly discussing. They all turned to stare at her as she walked into the room. Idle chatter died down, open stares were pinned on her.

Again, Luna ignored the stares, she turned to the intern hovering beside her. He was a young fresh-faced kid, just a few months out of college, and jumped slightly every time she spoke to him. He did so again as she turned to him, she ignored it.

“The CEO is not around?” she asked.

“Um, no, um, no, not yet, ma’am,” he stuttered.

As Luna processed the information, a smile threatened to spread over her face.

Oh, Justin, she thought to herself. This was a classic move he used, arriving fashionably late to meetings to assert control. She had studied him while they were together and she had seen how effective the move had been then.

A small smile tipped around Luna’s lips. The intern’s face flushed red, but she didn’t notice as she turned away from him to look back at the room.

“Um, do you want me to, um, place a call to his secretary? Ma’am?” he added.

Luna waves the suggestion away with a careless flick of her wrist.

“No, it’s fine,” she said instead, “we’ll just wait for him. He’s the one who’ll be receiving the shock of his life, after all,” she murmured, adding.

At her words, a feeling of glee ran through Luna’s body. She had worked hard at the surprise she was going to be unfolding today, for months. She had been meticulous in hiding her identity from Justin’s executives all while they’d been discussing the terms of the contract with her own executives. And now today, she was going to reap the fruits of her labor. She was going to enjoy seeing the look on Justin’s face when he walked in and saw her. Oh, she was going to soak in every moment of it.

The smile spreads a little.

“It’s fine,” she said again, absently to the flushed intern, “we’ll just wait for him.”

As she walked over to the first vacant seat to her right, the intern rushed forward to pull out the chair for her.

“Thank you, Jaden,” she said as she took her seat.

She heard the intern suck in a breath beside her. Did he think she didn’t know his name? Luna’s lips tip wryly as she thought about it. There was no one working for her she didn’t know. She might not know each and every one of their history, or family, or life, but she at least knew their name.