Free Maid To The Billionaire: Forever His (Part Three) (Billionaire Romance) by Holly Rayner Page B

went in first and then I did. When I got inside I saw there were very few patrons. Liz was at a table by the window. I couldn’t see Cassandra yet.
     
    “For one?” the hostess asked me.
     
    “Um… I’m meeting someone here.”
     
    “I’m right here,” Cassandra’s voice came from behind me, she’d just stepped in.
     
    The hostess led us back to a table. I could see Liz craning her head to watch. I gave her a hard look and she rolled her eyes again and turned away. Cassie and I sat down and after the hostess left she said, “So why all of a sudden am I supposed to believe that Alex wants me back?”
     
    I shrugged. “I don’t care if you believe it, but you have to ask yourself why I would tell you this if it wasn’t true. I’m devastated. I stood by him… through all of this… and when he woke up in the hospital, he asked for you. I thought it was the medication talking but he’s been cold to me and I heard him asking one of the security men to get his phone and call you. I’ve had the phone. I hid it.”
     
    She was looking at me through narrowed eyes. After a few seconds she said, “So why are you here telling me?”
     
    “I want to know what it will take to get you to give up on Alex and go away. I think in time, he can learn to be happy with me…” She laughed haughtily. I wanted to slap her… but I refrained.
     
    “Why would I want to take some paltry settlement when I could have it all?”
     
    “Because you don’t love him, Cassie. I do.”
     
    “And what makes you think that I don’t love him?”
     
    “I can see it on your face. You could have money to do whatever you wanted if you accepted my offer. You could have a different man every night if you wanted until you find one that you really love. I’ve found mine and I don’t want to lose him.”
     
    “I’ve already turned down Alex’s pitiful offer. How can you do any better?”
     
    “James is in town, did you know that?”
     
    “Alex’s father?”
     
    “Yes, and you are apparently not his favorite person.”
     
    She laughed. “That goes both ways.”
     
    “He likes me and he is more than willing to help me make you go away.”
     
    “No, I don’t think so,” she said. “I think I like being Mrs. Reigns. I always knew that Alex would want me back.”
     
    I tried to look sad, or mad. “Wouldn’t you rather be free to see whoever you’d like? Obviously Alex can’t be trusted to be faithful…”
     
    “He’s an idiot. All he had to do was wear a condom and I would have never known that he screwed the maid… no one would have. I’ve never been stupid enough to turn up pregnant. Of course for you, that was a smart move. He’s always been too trusting.”
     
    “I love him. I didn’t get pregnant on purpose.”
     
    “It’s ironic that all of that time, Alex was trying to get me pregnant and I was smart enough to take my pills. All he wanted from you was an afternoon tryst and now he’s saddled with a kid.”
     
    “Ironic,” I said sarcastically. Then I changed my tone to a pleading one and I said, “Please Cassandra… don’t take him away from me.”
     
    “Don’t you see that you never had him? Like marries like. He should have learned how to have an affair on the down low like the rest of us do. It’s perfectly fine to screw the servants… it’s just not okay to have a relationship with them.”
     
    I tried to look confused as I said, “So you and Alex knew that each other were having sex with other people?”
     
    “Of course not. I mean, it’s assumed, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to tell my billionaire husband with the original copy of the pre-nup that I’ve had sex with the gardener if you get my drift.”
     
    “Armando?” That was a genuine shock. Armando can’t be over eighteen or nineteen years old.
     
    She smiled lustfully and said, “You should have tried him out while you had the chance. He was the best lover I ever had. Much better than