Billionaire's Regret
Chapter 6:

Aaron unashamedly had listened to Grace's offer. He instinctively knew the girl can't afford what has been offered. He carefully moved away from the half open door, reaching into his pocket he called Zac with very specific instructions. As he casually leaned against the wall he waited for his 'man's' call.

"I do believe I found my weapon as revenge Grace. You are a slut but knowing you, you won't tolerate being replaced so quickly." Aaron looked at his watch. He turned his back when he realized Grace was about to go on rounds. Once he was certain she was gone he moved towards the open door. He finally has a complete view of her face. She was beautiful, he realized. She looks familiar but he can't seem to place her. Instinctively he felt his body reacting again to her presence. "Who are you?" he whispers to himself.

"Where am I supposed to get help from?" Annie asks the empty office as her words echoing around her. Just sitting there motionless her mind in turmoil. She finally looked down the documents between her fingers. Hanna Black, her beloved mom, her best friend, her hero. She was there when she absolutely needed her; her mom always her unwavering rock.

"What am I supposed to do?" she questions herself again. She needed to voice her thoughts as it was too much to keep unvoiced.

Her burning mind realized it was in her current state a staggering amount of money. As a children's book writer, she was only now starting making money but it was too much too fast that she needs real money. Sometimes she hides the fact from her Mom that they barely get by most days, but she doesn't care much sometimes being hungry. This fuels her drive to succeed.

"I am not sure how but I am going to replace a way." She voiced her thought to herself.

Aaron heard the conviction in her voice. He felt a strange knot around his heart but he shakes the feeling from him. He reminds himself revenge should be sweet where Grace Stevens are concerned. Will my mother approve? What about Annie?

Annie stared for a long time at the door. It took time before she realized the tall stranger stood in the open door of the office. She abstractly noticed he was openly handsome and well-dressed. It briefly dawns on her he was a waiting predator. She blinked looking frankly at him. In her mind she admires his hard, sexy body. There was definitely strength in his length. She briefly smiles thinking he just step out of the pages of those romance novels she used to devour before reality of life and human nature kick-in.

"Aaron Casey..." her mind and her heart finally screamed in total recognition. It felt like she was frozen on the chair.

Aaron feels the rising tide of revenge but he was also in conflict. He certainly doesn't like the emotions this girl was waking inside him. He wants his revenge...simple as that. He stood watching her brown eyes traveling one last time over his frame, before he watches her shrug her shoulders and dismissed him, a brief bitter smile twisting around her lips. It somehow puzzled him. The girl looks very familiar but he can't place her. Since that traumatic brain operation that changed his personality briefly, there were gaps in his life.

"Doctor Grace is doing her rounds." She said softly. It finally occurs to her he was looking for the doctor. They would certainly fit as a couple; again the twist around her mouth; her ex-husband looking for her doctor. How ironic... The hair on Aaron's arms rise in electricity hearing her voice. He suddenly lengthens his stance, armed with information he was about to launched. Since he finally managed to look into her face, he realized the girl was absolutely beautiful. He silently studies her sitting profile, noticed currently her brown eyes was worried, he could see the shadows of hidden fear. Briefly it had seemed like she recognized him but he certainly don't know her. He continuous to study her profile definitely liking her kissable lips; his traveling eyes judge her sitting frame to be slender but with obvious strength. His hands itch in remembering the tightness of her body briefly between his hands. Taking a deep breath, he could still smell her very essence.

"I am not looking for the Doctor. I am here for you." He said smiling. He watches the frown form between her eyes looking at him.

Annie quietly starts to realize he doesn't recognize her. This quick knowledge has her worried but intrigued too.

"Excuse me?" Annie looked at him again. She was now focused but also distracted looking at his facial structure, strong and handsome. His black eyes calculating, dark hair with a slight curl but cut short. There was nothing boyish about him. This stranger was all male...predatory...whatever, her final thought as her lips twist again.

"May I come in?" his eyes still focused on her.

"It isn't for me to say," Annie frowned continuously.

"At the moment you have the right to deny me entrance. I don't want to waste your time but I have a very specific offer design especially for you." Annie formed the picture in her mind being the prey to this obvious predator.

"What are you talking about?" she looked directly into his face. She certainly doesn't like her current train of thoughts but she refuses to back down.

"Let me be frank. I want you Annie Black." Aaron declares pointedly watching her reaction. He was observant enough to notice the quick quirk of bitterness briefly around her mouth. This facial expression puzzles him.

"You want me...why?" she questions level-toned. The rising hysteria was building within her.

"Purely for the sake of revenge," he said flatly.

"I don't know you." Annie also replied flatly. Her narrowed eyes look at her ex-husband. It was now clear he has no idea who she was.

"You are wrong. In a brief but definite physical manner you do know me. I don't take kindly being humiliated in public."

"What the devil are you talking about?" Annie slaps the documents onto the desk getting onto her feet. Her length shortens beneath his chin. This somehow infuriates her.

"I am a man of importance, yet you had the nerve to run me over and just left me there." He declares in a tone of voice that makes her grits her teeth.

"Excuse me!" her temperature was rising.

Aaron completely unfazed by her temper reaches for the documents. He quickly read it through before nodding his head. "This certainly is do-able." He looked pointedly at her again. "Arrangements will be made within the next twelve hours. You don't need to pack anything except your passport. Are we in agreement?" he questions with an arch eyebrow.

"Who the hell are you?" Annie finally manages to get passed her fury.

"I am the man who is going to settle your debt. The price in return, you are going to be my mistress until I decide otherwise. Agree to my terms and Hanna Black will receive only the best the Swiss Clinic can offer. I am Aaron, your soon-to-be lover." He watches the blood drain from her face. There within her motionless stance was briefly such breakable fragility that he felt something knot his heart tightly.

"You remind me about someone I lost." He suddenly felt the urge to confess.

"What..."

"Your name...I lost an Annie but I don't know how."

Annie just looked at her ex-husband completely thrown. It obvious that both feel the pull but it seems she is the only one to understand the origin.

"I am a billionaire that regrets the lost of memories. I don't know why I am telling you this. I want you as a hired mistress purely for the sake of revenge. Do you accept?"