The Carrero Effect - Falling for the Boss (Billionaire CEO)

Chapter 86

Oh my god. Why would anyone want to cheat on him? I mean look at him. Why would she want to hurt him?

I shake my head as if I can’t believe it. I don’t want her to be the one.

Is she the reason he’s the way he is? Why he keeps women at arm’s length, and it’s just sex and fun? Did having his first love savagely rip his heart open make him unable to trust women in his life? Keeping them all at a distance, the way I do with everyone else.

“Why did you start seeing her again?” It’s out before I can stop it.

Do I want to hear him tell me how he’s never got over her? No, I don’t.

He shrugs and gazes at me intensely.

“It’s complicated.”

When is it ever not?

“Stop saying that,” I wail, instantly on my feet and I’m angry.

Why?

Because he’s my Jake. Not hers. I want him to want me, and only me; I know it’s never going to be that way and it ruins every part of me. Rages and burns that once, long ago she had exactly that and she threw it all away. She was a complete idiot!

“Emma … What do you want me to say?” he moves to me, and pushes me back to sit down, so he’s standing over me.

“You think I planned any of this shit?” he looks broken, eyes damp and face unreadable, yet somehow sad.

“Do you love her?” I ask of him, complete fear gripping me inside and I almost sob it out in desperation.

don’t cry. Not here. Not now. Not in

across his face and I can’t read it. I’m scared of his

want to know.” He grasps my hands and pulls them

you think,” he pleads, his body trying to cage me in against him, but I

do I think? … What could

go.” I shove him away, lost in teen Emma mode

is right there in the next room, she’s pregnant with his baby. She’s the first love of his life. She’s

Jake … I need space.” I gulp down tears and panic, and finally throw his hands off me. He lets me go

says nothing, just gives me his boyish wary look, his frown deepening. I can’t stay here, so I go into automatic pilot. I stalk toward the door, pulling up my hood, and don’t look back, knowing that walking out is the only choice I have. I

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the heart wrenching pain overtake me. I cry like I did the night he left me on that boat, and I think I may actually die this time. If my lungs don’t self-implode, I think my heart might. The pain is unbearable and raw, and I’ve never willingly exposed myself to enduring it this way,

even throw up; this isn’t my life … My life is calm and easy and straightforward. My job, my apartment, my responsibilities. They all slot into place and I manage them all well. This isn’t really happening. I’m in a parallel universe,

how we got

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have dried on their own, my face tight and swollen, but I don’t care anymore. I’ve been through so many emotions these past weeks; I think I’m slowly losing my mind. I’m definitely

loudly in the modern suite. There’s

There’s always going to be me, desolate, alone on one side,

Even if he told me he wanted me and only me, then how would that work? I don’t see how this could get any better, it’s better if we forget it ever happened, it’s better if we just act like we did before the kiss in the kitchen and go back to an easier

Can he? Can

his right hand, but surely that

– I think

the center of the bed, beside mine. I guess he tried to call me and found mine left behind. He flits his gaze from the screen, up to me and closes it silently, without breaking eye contact. He looks every

His voice is steady and deep, hoarse from tiredness as my inner confidence slides silently from deep within

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