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

Chapter 300

“Oh, do you have company and can’t talk? Sorry, I just missed your voice, it’s beyond sexy, and I am so excited about seeing you.” She purred irritatingly, and Jake had to steel the urge to tell her to forget all of this.

“Yeah, I missed you too, bambino,” he said flatly, still feeling Emma’s presence burning into him like rays from the sun, he wanted to just curl up and die about now.

“Okay, well my flight gets in around four, so I may hang around at the airfield for you if that’s okay?”

“I’ll meet you there,” Jake said quickly and didn’t wait for her reply just hung up quickly to stop the way his throat was trying to strangle him to death with guilt. He slid his phone back into his pocket and couldn’t look at her at all, every part of him felt like a complete shithead as though he was openly cheating on her. In his own head, he was, and it had the ability to stop it all if he let it.

Fuck.

“Who?” Emma blurted out and caused another slice to his heart. He couldn’t tell her it was the girl he used to replace her so many times when she first started working for him. Brianne was small, blonde and could have been Emma’s sister to look at, but she didn’t need to know that.

“No one you know. Old flame.” He closed his case, throwing her a fiery look, willing her to back off and not pursue this agony.

“If that will be all, Mr. Carrero, I’ll leave you to it,” Emma said icily and threw him a look that translated to nothing at all, completely deadpan. She was stiff and devoid of emotion. Sad that he had made it happen this way, pushed her to this version of her that she hadn’t been since the first week he had known her, but this is who he needed to see from now on.

“Tell the others, after I’m gone, I had to go away for a couple of days.” He was picking up his case, his body stiff with tension and he just had to get out, he couldn’t breathe now it was getting closer to leaving her. He was slowly suffocating and on the verge of some sort of anxiety attack.

polite and factual. Another nail in the coffin of his

give a shit, Emma … the truth for all I care.” He flexed his eyebrows sardonically at her, really completely

and be done with it. The sooner he put distance between them the sooner he would be able to think straight and start rationalizing all of this. He could start

back and give his heart a chance at letting go of her, he was weakening with every step toward the back of the boat, doubts flooding in and that inner part of him that eternally wanted to protect her clawing him back. To stop, to go back and just get on

and he would bail on all of this because, like it or not, he fucking loved her, and the last thing he wanted to be doing right now was leaving her for anything in the world. It took all of his strength to walk the last steps and hand his bag to the waiting

air and had probably gone back on deck. She had let him go because she had never loved him and as much as he hated himself for doing this it had never

own sanity again, and if he could do that between the legs of Brianne it would

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the four-hour flight and was at the point of seeing double. He had tried to drown his sorrows and

missed her

and instead of distance giving him the ability to breathe he had felt each mile choking him to near strangulation. He was so fucked over this girl and out of control. Every part of him wanted to turn around and go back. He had pulled up her name on his phone a hundred times and just stared at it, stopping himself from drunk dialing her and telling her he was an asshole because he fucking loved her to death. And he did … all-consuming, every single aching part of him loved her beyond anything he could ever explain. She was his world whether she wanted to be or not and he was a major

pulled from his iTunes a hundred times and thought about sending it

Apologize—One Republic.

tell her he was sorry, he felt like the biggest prick in the world and his heart was wrenched in

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