Ruin The Billionaire

Jake.

I was left confused when Lilly ran away from me after us kissing. Damn, it had been the best kiss I’d had in a while and wished it had lasted longer. Sadly, I was interrupted because of my nemesis, Michael Strong. Michael was a forty year old man who ran a brewery and hated me because his fiancé had left him at the altar because of me. He made it his life’s mission to ruin my life.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think he was the one who hired Lilith to write about me. The coincidence made me quite suspicious. That I had been called about him when I was with Lilith actually raised my brows. Why did she run away when she heard his name? Was I falling into a trap? Had Lilith decided to partner with my nemesis to destroy me?

The call was from one of my business partners Jamal Hansen who wanted to inform me that Michael Strong had just tried to buy off shares one of our partners. The man actually wanted to be part of my company. If he thought I was going to accept such nonsense, he was mistaken. I was going to retaliate in a way he would never see coming. The good thing my mother was back. I could do it alone, but with her by my side, the results would be much better.

By the time Cory and I got downstairs, Lilith and her friend were nowhere to be seen. I had expected it but I still felt let down. I remembered the steamy passion filled kiss we had shared and my body came alive. Sighing, I followed Cory to the car.

The next day was a drag. I was too busy in the morning sorting out certain issues at the office. I was in the insurance industry and because of that I dealt a lot with people. Managing people and their money is not as easy as people think. They think CEO’s just exist to give orders and go on vacations. I’m not denying that it’s true. All I’m saying is we do more than just that. And if you’re the owner as well as CEO, it’s more stressful. You bear the whole business risk.

I was returning from the board room after a meeting with the senior partners including the one Michael Strong had approached. It was good to see that everyone was interested in resisting that evil man’s advances. I was not to blame for his fiancée’s love for me. She was the one who wanted me. I just wanted to have fun and had made it clear to her. Now she had made him my lifetime enemy, I would spend the rest of my life fighting him off.

My phone vibrated as I pushed the door to my office open. It was William Brooks, a friend of mine who lived in California.

“Hello,” he said.

“Hey Willy, what’s going on?”

“Me and the guys are going to Illistra this weekend. You up for it?”

I thought about it. Unless, Lilith called me by some miracle, I had no plans.

“Sign me up,” I said. It had been a while since I had been on that billionaire island. One thing I knew about it was that having a good time was guaranteed. Booze, parties, pretty ladies and sports. What more could a guy want?

“Do you think Johnny will come too?”

“I don’t think so. His dad is driving him crazy. I doubt he’ll go unless he wants to lose his inheritance and become poor.”

William chuckled. “That old geezer is still alive?”

“Hey, have some respect. You’re talking about my best bud’s father.”

“Alright, sorry. We shall arrive in New York tomorrow night and get you.”

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A weekend getaway was going to be the perfect distraction from my thoughts about Lilith. I didn’t understand why I thought so much about her. There were many pretty ladies around me that would come to me with no hesitation but for some reason my mind was stuck on Lilith.

I was not a fan of love because it always led to heartache. No matter what you did, if there was love, there would be pain. I didn’t want to fall deeply in love at that point in my life. Given the chance that it would be unrequited, I knew I had to avoid it by all means. Going away and partying with other women was the perfect way to forget all the drama in my life.

By Friday evening, I was more than ready to leave. My mother and heather seemed to have developed a strong mother – daughter like connection that was making me extremely uncomfortable. My mother let her stay in the house and they did almost everything together. That was one more reason why I shouldn’t marry heather. Who wants a wife who is best friends with their mother? That was a recipe for disaster.

I was relieved when the jet carrying William, Joshua, Ted and Rafael arrived and picked me up. I had met all of them at a business summit at LA in my first year as a college graduate. Our fathers were preparing all of us to be managers of their business and we were all sent there to learn about business. We had become fast friends and always linked up whenever we wanted to getaway.

“Thank God you’re here, my mother and Heather were driving me crazy.” I said after getting into the jet.

“Heather Martins?” Rafael said.

“That one,” I replied as I threw my bag down and settled down on the couch.

“I thought you broke up with her,” he said.

“I did, but she won’t leave me alone. She has resorted to be friending my mother.”

“Didn’t know she was like that,” Rafael said.

“Oh, I remember you had a crush on her,” Ted quipped in. “you nearly snatched her away from our boy here.”

“What?” I said. I had noticed Rafael giving heather weird looks but had no idea it was that deep. I thought he was just appreciative of her beauty.

“Well, she’s hot.”

“We can stop the jet and leave you here as my guest.”

Rafael laughed. “Nuh, let’s go. I’m not a lovesick teenager that will pine for a woman.”

“I thought you were losing it,” William said. “You have to admit. You considered the option.”

“I’m human.”

“You’re free to have her,” I said.

“What about Lilith Hellman?” Rafael asked.

“What about her?”

Did they know anything?

“She seems obsessed with you. And she’s beautiful, in that next door girl kind of way. Don’t you want her?”

I laughed. “Of course not, she’s not my type.”