The Billionaire's Convenient Bride: A BWWM Billionaire Love Story by Cj Howard Page A

his own anger building inside of him.
         “So I can’t have any women at all now? What am I supposed to do? I can’t have…” He had almost said he couldn’t have her, but he’d stopped himself just in time. “I can’t have what I want, so I just have to do without it all together? What am I going to do, be celibate for the next three years while we are married?” he shot back at her, frustration taking him over.
         “No, I don’t expect you to do that, you are welcome to go be with anyone you want to be with, be with as many as you want to be with, just don’t do it in this state! Don’t do it so publicly with women who will spill the beans to the next available reporter! I can’t fix your reputation if you’re busy running around behind my back destroying it by doing the same things that dragged you down into the mud in the first place! You’re totally negating everything I’m doing! If you’re going to act like this here, then I don’t even see the point of my wasting the next three years here with you, because you’re just going to make my time and efforts useless anyway! I don’t fight losing battles.” She was being very careful about not raising her voice, but it was difficult.
         He didn’t know why, but he hated her saying that he could be with anyone. It was obvious that she didn’t care at all. Peter was completely incensed. “I have treated you like gold since you’ve been here, I’ve done everything for you, and worked hard to help you make this arrangement a success, and now I can’t even blow off a little steam in my own home!”
         She moved toward him in hopes that a closer proximity might somehow help her get her point across to him. “I don’t care what you do, or who you do it with, I’m just telling you not to do it where you can be seen! Out of state from now on! I didn’t give up everything in my life just so you could make a fool of me! You have said you are grateful for the sacrifices I’ve made for you and you wish there was some way to pay me back for them, well, this is no way to pay me back for all that I have done for you! Why don’t you put someone else besides yourself first, for a change?”
         He felt his blood curdle at her words. She was right. He knew she was right. This was no way to repay her and he had said that her sacrifice was something he could never compensate her for. He pressed his lips together and turned away from her.
         Peter’s voice grew quiet. “Fine, I’ll leave the state in the future.”
         “Good,” she answered behind his back, and then as he turned to look at her, he heard the door close and saw that she was gone.
         He fully understood now how so many men were in torment about their relationships. How they loved they women they wanted but had such a hard time being with them. This was one of the reasons why he didn’t want to be in a relationship. It was so much easier to enjoy them and kiss them goodbye. He sighed heavily and sank down into the seat at his desk. She was complicated and irritating. Confusing and frustrating beyond measure. She was almost indefinable to him.
         Emmaline went straight out to the garden and paced through the rows of flowers until she calmed down. He was nothing short of infuriating to her. She couldn’t imagine how she had let herself get into such a convoluted mess as she was in now. Her life had been peaceful and beautiful, living with her grandfather. She had a good job, she worked hard, she had no secrets and she was respectable. Somewhere along the line, she had just gone wrong.
         Now it seemed to her that her life was inside out and nothing was what it ought to be. She had more secrets now than she ever had and she was stuck in a marriage with a man who was never going to put anyone else before himself. She tried to stop the tears as they rolled down her cheeks, but she couldn’t. She wept a while, until she was