Free The Billionaire's Secret Mistress - Part 2 (Contemporary BWWM Romance) (The Billionaire's Secret Mistress (Contemporary BW) by Destiny Davis

Chapter 1
     
                  Angela didn’t know what she was expecting after her breakup with Dimitri. The last thing she’d anticipated, however, was to sink into the deep depression that had gripped her ever since she came back from his place. It was only then that she realized how much she’d grown to care about him. She took three days off work and spent the day in bed with the blackout blinds pulled down, three bottles of wine, and a tub of vanilla ice cream.
                  Somewhere around eight - night or day she didn’t know and no longer cared - her phone rang. Truth be told, it had been ringing for a while now but she’d been ignoring the shrill, demanding sound.
                  “What?” She snapped, without even looking at the screen.
                  “Where the hell have you been?” Lilly’s voice screeched down the line.
                  Angela winced, holding the phone away from her. “Don’t scream. I already feel like my head is being slice open with a machete.”
                  “That bad, huh? I figured something was up when Dimitri showed up at work today looking like shit.”
                  Angela sat up straighter. “Did he?”
                  “Yes.” Lilly paused. “Angie, what the hell went on between the two of you? I’ve been working here for three years now and I’ve never seen Dimitri like this.”
                  Angela clutched the phone tighter. “How was he, Lilly?”
                  “I don’t know how to describe it… he just looked… dead. There were these huge circles under his eyes, his hair was messy, and his shirt was rumpled but it was more than that…” Lilly paused again. “I don’t know how to describe it.”
                  A vice-like grip squeezed her heart. Her hand shook as she reached for another wine bottle and brought it to her lips, gulping down the remaining dregs.
                  “Angie? Are you here?”
                  “Yes,” she said hoarsely. “I was just finishing my wine.” She looked morosely at the mess in her bedroom. “I might start on tequila next.”
                  “Look, you gotta snap out of it, alright?” Lilly said firmly. “You knew from the start that it wouldn’t last. I told you so. Dimitri told you so. Your gut told you so.”
                  “Lilly…” Angela gritted her teeth. “Just… just stop, alright?”
                  “What?” Her best friend said defensively. “Stop trying to drag you back to earth? Angela, what did you expect? We all know what a reputation Dimitri has.” She took a deep breath. “Babe, I’m sorry this happened to you but come on… you can’t say that we hadn’t been expecting it.”
                  “ We? ” Angela raised an eyebrow. “There is no we in this story, Lilly. I don’t know what the hell you expected but I didn’t really think I’d get tossed aside when he had his fill of me.” She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. “Look, I’ll speak to you later alright? I have to go.”
                  Ignoring her friend’s protests, she hung up and angrily tossed the phone on the bed. The short talk with Lilly had awoken something in her, though. There was a crack in the cocoon of numbness that she’d wrapped around herself since the breakup a week ago. Her fingers twitched almost involuntarily towards her phone. She could give him a call. Just to check up on him. No, that would be too obvious. She suddenly remembered that she’d taken three days off work but she was now on day four. Maybe she could call to let him know that she would be starting work again tomorrow.
                  Before she could even linger on the idea, Angela grabbed her phone and dialed his direct line. Her heart was hammering so furiously that