Page 6 of The Billionaire Revenge
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“You did what!!”
Carrie held the phone away from her ear as her friend screamed into the receiver.
“I made out with Malachi in my conference room” she replied.
Mary - her best friend - burst out in uncontrollable laughter making Carrie more anxious than she had been before.
“So what was it like?” Mary asked, “did you enjoy it, it’s been so long since you kissed a man?”
Carrie now regretted that she ever told her friend what had happened. “It was different. I can’t remember the last time I kissed a guy and got so lost in it”
“If I can remember correctly, just last week you were telling me all about how you haven’t gotten over Alex, I guess that’s out of the way?” Mary teased
“Strangely enough he reminds me of Alex, I look at him sometimes and I can see Alex,” she told Mary. “They don’t look alike but the same arrogance and assertiveness that drew me to Alex is what I see in him”
“Then close your eyes.” Mary joked
“Come on Mary.” Carrie replied exasperated
“Think about it, Alex broke your heart, but that was on him. There will be men who have similarities to Alex but not all men are pigs. You won’t know that unless you give someone a try”
“What if I do give someone a try and it happens again?” Carrie asked, “How do I come back from that?”
“We cross that bridge when we get there” Mary told her “for now, date him. You never know”
“I’ll think about it” Carrie replied
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“Are you free for a minute?’ came Jilan’s voice over the intercom
“Yes sure, what’s up?” she replied
“I have Malachi out here to see you”
“Send him in” Carrie replied feeling a bit nervous
A minute later Malachi walked in. Unlike previous meetings he was dressed in a polo t-shirt and jeans. He looked just as handsome as when he did wearing an expensive suit.
“Hi Malachi, what’s up?” she asked
“I just wanted to talk to you about an agency I have coming in tomorrow” he said walking toward her desk
“Oh, I got the file but I didn’t understand it fully” she replied ruffling through a few papers on her desk to find the folder he had sent.
“We can get you another copy?” Malachi replied.
“Yea, but I am headed home now as I have a dinner later on,” she said.
“Hmm. This is kind of urgent” she said “I wanted to go through the lineup with you.”
“I have an office at home; can we talk there?”
“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” he asked as she hurriedly packed a few things into her bag.
“Yeah, I do this sort of thing all the time when I have urgent meetings” she replied