Page 419 of Billionaire Temptations

“Mr. Bennett, this is Cassandra at the Palazzo Hotel. I just wanted to inform you that your hotel bill was already paid, so we won’t be charging the credit card you have on file.”

“What do you mean it’s already been paid? By whom?”

“The woman that was staying in the room with you. She left cash in an envelope this morning at the front desk with a note stating that the room was to be paid for using that.”

Shaking my head, I sighed. “Okay. Thank you for calling and letting me know.”

That woman. I couldn’t believe she did that. I quickly typed out a text message but deleted it. I wanted her to hear the anger in my voice.

“Hello,” she answered.

“Chloe, it’s Sebastian. What the hell were you thinking?” I asked in a stern voice.

“Hi, Sebastian. What are you talking about?”

“I just received a call from the hotel we stayed at in Vegas. They kindly informed me that you paid the hotel bill with the cash you won.”

“Oh. Yeah. It was their money anyway, so why not give it back? Why are you so mad about it?”

I could feel the heat rising inside my veins.

“Because that was your money!” I shouted. “I told you to go and buy something nice with it, and you chose to pay the goddamn hotel bill instead.”

“First of all, you need to calm down. Second of all, if you claim it was my money, then I can choose to spend it however I want to, and I chose to pay the hotel bill.”

I clenched my fist and slowly closed my eyes for a moment to keep from really losing my cool with her.

“I am more than capable of paying the hotel bill!” I shouted.

“Breathe, Sebastian.”

“What?”

“Take in a long, deep breath. Do you meditate?”

“What? Meditate? No, I don’t meditate!”

“Well, you should. Now I have to go. I’m in the middle of taking a relaxing bath, and you so rudely interrupted me with this hotel nonsense.”

I heard a click and pulled my phone from my ear. She hung up on me. Damn her.

“It seems Miss Kane has you all worked up.” Eli smiled as he walked out on the patio.

“Can you believe that she paid the hotel bill with the money she won in Vegas?” I threw back my drink.

“That was nice of her.”

“Nice of her? It was stupid. I told her to go buy something nice for herself. Then she said it was the hotel’s money anyway, so why not give it back. What kind of fucking reasoning is that?”

“The reasoning of a woman who doesn’t believe in material things.”

Rolling my eyes, I went back inside and poured another bourbon.

“Yeah, well, whether she believes in them or not, she shouldn’t have done that. And another thing, do you know she won all that money because the sun was in Leo and I lost thousands last night because supposedly we’re in a Venus retrograde?”

“Huh. She’s into astrology. Interesting.” He smirked.

I shook my finger at him. “Do you know what she just asked me?”

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