IAABABTBHHG 2: The One That Got Away
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Eight long years have passed since that night--the night that turned the lives of Athena Vanderbilt and Nathaniel Van Warner upside down. Athena, now a new-grad physician, returns to New York from her self-exile in Oxford. Nate is now the CEO of the Van Warner family business empire. Both became successful in their own fields of expertise. Both are living their own dreams.
But Athena's homecoming has shaken up everything and everyone. Including Nate's previously unwavering resolution that he has completely moved on from his one true love. After all, he has Issa, to keep his mind and heart occupied now. Or was there even space for her to begin with?
THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO "I AM APPOINTED BY A BILLIONAIRE TO BE HIS HEIR'S GIRLFRIEND"
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"It's been so long," I whispered. His jaw tightened. "Not long enough," he snapped back. My heart shattered as he stood up and left. And I realized he wasn't coming back. ****** ****** ****** Alexa Baker has had enough of being trapped under her mother's supervision in San Diego, California. After six gruesome years in the city and four years at college, she takes up her mother's offer at an internship at their company's headquarters in New York City. At last it was a place where she could escape her demons and start fresh. But a chance encounter at one of the city's hottest new bars leaves her frozen in her tracks. A person from her past has emerged, and she realizes quickly he is not the man he used to be. Arrogant, cold, and angry at the world, he has kept everybody at arm's length, and Alexa's arrival is no different. Deep in her heart, she knows that in order to truly move on, she must right her wrong, but it turns out the path to redemption is much rockier than she expected. Along the way she finds herself right back to where she was, but the fall is much higher than it used to be. Now she is dealing with one of the most stubborn CEOs in the world, and he isn't ready to forgive her quite yet. ***Completed April 20, 2020*** ***Sequel to Truth Be Told*** ***can technically be read as a stand alone so you will be very confused but, hey, it's your account;)***
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