The Billionaire and the Bartender (The Billionaires 2)

“I don’t understand what you were getting at before.” He said. “Shall we sit down somewhere?”

“It’s her. I told you it’s her.” A voice yelled and people started to stare.

“It’s Lorenza LaBelle.”

What the hell?

“God, I love your movies.” The middle-aged guy in front of me said. “The one I just saw in the theater with you taking that massive dick in your mouth. God, that’s hot. Any chance I could pay to get mine in your mouth?”

The numbers all added up. My movie was playing in the theater. I had no idea how the fuck that had happened. All I knew was that Aidan was looking at me in horror and Amelia was looking stunned. So I did the only thing I could think of. I threw the stupid high heels off and ran out of the club, pushing people away from me. I slipped inside a staff bathroom until I could be sure that Aidan was convinced I’d left, and then I left through the back entrance, the ones the celebrities used and I went home.

Chapter 11

Aidan

I was desperate to get to Lori, who was clearly upset about her identity being revealed in front of Amelia, but I was stuck at the club and would be for a few hours yet. There’d been a punch up between a jealous husband and a lover that I needed to deal with directly. I was desperate to see her and yet stuck with these two idiots who couldn’t handle their alcohol.

Finally, I returned to the bar. Amelia and H were about to leave. Elias had gone some time ago, supposedly to get an early night so he could get up the nerve to ask his assistant out tomorrow. He’d told me that if it went to shit I’d to give him Ashley as a replacement assistant, so I hoped to God it went well.

“You need to go to see Lori, straight away.” Said Amelia. “You keep fucking this up.”

“Amelia. It’s complicated.” I told her.

“Only because you’re both making it that way. Just a moment,” she said to H, “I need a quiet word with your friend.”

She pulled me to the side. “Amelia told me all about the bet. Now, I can’t promise I won’t tell Henry but I see no harm in waiting until Eli has his date.”

I looked at the floor. “I’m sorry for lying, Amelia. The truth is she was a bartender here, but she was also a movie actress at GoDown and I hired her to be my girlfriend.”

“Well, she didn’t tell me about her other career but she told me about you hiring her and why it was so important to you that you won. Eli is lucky to have a friend like you.”

“I screwed up though. Lori is a lovely woman, and I devalued her. I lost a friend.”

“You’ve lost more than a friend right now. That’s why you need to go after her. She came to you to confess everything but then that stupid other woman turned up. Who was she?”

“Ember is someone I have really been dating, albeit platonically. But I’ve messed that up by falling in love with a lesbian.”

Amelia looked at me strangely. “She didn’t get a chance to tell you?”

It was my turn to get a furrowed brow. “Tell me what?”

Amelia sighed. “Lori isn’t gay, Aidan. She told you that as she didn’t want a relationship. She wanted to focus on her career after what happened with her last one. I’d persuaded her that you were worth taking a chance on. That’s why she came over to you.”

My jaw dropped. “She’s not…”

“No.”

I kissed her cheek. “Amelia, I need to go. I need to leave right now. Tell Ashley to close up the club.”

“Henry and I will take care of it all. He used to own this, remember?”

“Whatever you think. Right, I’m going.” I said, and I ran out of the club.

I arrived at Lori’s apartment and I knocked quietly on the door. There was no answer, so I quickly typed into my cell.

BBBF: I’m outside and if you don’t let me in I will bang loudly and wake up all your neighbors.

There was a minutes wait and then.