The Shopaholic and the Billionaire 3: Love & Fashion: The Shopaholic and the Billionaire, #3

By Danielle Jamesen

Mia finds herself forced to make hard choices. As she repeatedly finds herself falling into Charles’s arms, Mia knows that she must get own life on track.

With Diamond’s party looming for her boutique, Mia tries to make things with Charles work. But the billionaire is hesitant to give anyone close to him anything but money, thinking that is all they want from him. As Mia struggles to show Charles that she has true feelings for him, she ends up sending him fleeing.

Now Mia is faced with the fact that the only way she can be happy is to improve her own life. As she makes the difficult steps to improve herself and tackle her shopping addiction head on, she reconnects with things she had previously thought lost to her.

As Mia makes peace with her past and looks toward her future, a little good-luck might pave the way to future happiness after all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Danielle Jamesen
• Release date: Dec 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519926395

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The Shopaholic and the Billionaire

3

Love & Fashion

Danielle Jamesen

Copyright © 2015 by Danielle Jamesen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used, reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form without the prior written consent of the author.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Characters, names, places, incidents and events are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Table of Contents

Chapter One – Awards Ceremony

Chapter Two – Admitted

Chapter Three – Jennifer

Chapter Four – The Party

Chapter Five – Two Weeks Later

Chapter Six – Reunion

Chapter Seven – Only You

Chapter One – Awards Ceremony

You should let me go with you. Gwen said on the other end of the phone.

No, I have to do this alone, Mia replied, But thank you for offering.

No problem. Listen, if she is there, just ignore her. Like she is beneath you.

I’ll try. Mia replied and then they said good-bye and hung up.

Mia looked out the front window of her car. She couldn’t help but be nervous. Jacob was having an awards ceremony at school today celebrating good grades and other achievements. Mia knew Alex would be there which made her nervous to begin with. But she wouldn’t have put it past him to bring Michelle.

The thought of walking in there and seeing Michelle in front of all the other parents was enough to send Mia into the largest panic attack of her life. But not showing up wasn’t an option. Jacob deserved to have the support of both of his parents and Mia would be damned to not go to her child’s award ceremony because of Michelle.

Her palms were itchy. She rubbed them against her skirt and tried to focus on her breathing. Everything had gotten even messier the couple of days, as if that was even possible.

***

Charles had discovered her credit card debt. Well, half of it. A new round of notices had arrived the other day and Mia had tossed them in the bin. Charles, stopping by the store to see if he could catch Diamond and herself before lunch, helped himself to her office. He had pulled them from the trash and had discovered them.

When Mia had followed him into the office, Charles had been furious.

This debt is on the company credit cards. Your own personal credit cards as well. How are you spending so much, Mia? None of it looks like it has been going into the business.

Did you go through my things? Mia had retorted, furious that Charlie had gone through her things and embarrassed that he knew her secret.

Yes, He said bluntly, I was waiting for you to get back and Darlene had unlocked the office for me. So I was waiting here for you and saw this in the bin and I yanked it out. Why didn’t you tell me about this? He waved his hands around.

I didn’t realize you were my father, She snapped at him, Why do you even care?

Because here I am, trying to help this business out and trying to believe you and then I find out this shit. The business is failing because of you.

"No, it isn’t just me. No one is shopping here. Yes, the debt is a big part of it. But the business was hit by the divorce. No one wanted to be seen here. This town