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Authors: Rossi St. James
CLAIMED (By the Alpha Billionaire #2) (3 page)
SIX
Sawyer
I couldn’t get her out of my head all week. Those five days we spent together were exactly what I needed to realize it was time to move on. I couldn’t dwell on Alexandria’s death anymore, and I sure as hell couldn’t spend my life looking for a replacement version.
There would never be another Alexandria.
And there would never be another Maisie James.
I sat on my jet, a tumbler full of warm brandy in my hand as the fingers of my free hand drummed against the seat next to me. I stood up and headed to the cockpit.
“Henry,” I said to the pilot. “Where are we?”
We were headed to Denver for an airline convention, though I was arriving a few days early. I needed to get out of the city for a few days. I needed to clear my head and make sense of the confusing emotions that plagued me since the day Maisie left.
“We’re over Kentucky right now,” he said.
“Think we can make a stop in Missouri?”
Henry nodded, reaching for the radio. “I’ll make preparations.”
Within an hour, we’d landed at the same little airport I was once stranded at in the same little town where Maisie lived. I’d hitched a ride with a local pilot into town to grab a rental car, and headed to Maisie’s apartment.
On the way, I stopped to pick up a dozen pale pink tulips. Tulips reminded me of spring, and that’s what Maisie represented to me. A breath of fresh air. A warmed breeze after a long, cold winter. The promise of a new beginning.
I grabbed the bouquet and headed up the steps to her second floor apartment. But when I rounded the corner, I saw him. Her ex. I saw him walk into her apartment and stood frozen, just long enough to see the door close.
I dropped the flowers on her doorstep and left. It was getting late, and I didn’t want to make Henry fly again that night, so I headed to the only hotel in town and grabbed a room.
“I should’ve known,” I sighed, punching the steering wheel as I drove.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Rossi St. James is a twenty-something young woman with a passion for Oreos, crazy, twisted stories, and hiking trails with her two yellow labs, Sunny and Cloudy. When she’s not writing, you can probably find her scouring Pinterest for inspiration for her next book. (That’s pretty much all she uses Pinterest for anyway, as Rossi St. James cannot cook, sew, or craft).
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