The Shopaholic and the Billionaire 2: Runaway: The Shopaholic and the Billionaire, #2

By Danielle Jamesen

Mia faces her fears and attends her college reunion, hoping to see her ex-lover turned billionaire doctor, Charles.

As the two of them fall into each other’s arms, Mia realizes that they might be too different for the two of them to truly make things work in this day and age. Fear sends Mia flying away, refusing to walk down that path.       

But Charles isn’t so eager to give Mia up. Using his never-ending means, he finds her and attempts to rekindle what they had. But Charles has changed since college. His billions have made him less inclined to reveal what makes him click and he is scared to let Mia in.

Mia finds herself unsure if she should go after Charles and win his heart or let him go and save herself the possible heartache. As Charles sends a huge favor her way, Mia cannot help but wonder if he feels the same way about her and is simply hiding it.

Torn between fear and going for it, Mia must navigate her new world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Danielle Jamesen
• Release date: Dec 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519999962

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The Shopaholic and the Billionaire

2

Runaway

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 – Stepping Out

Chapter Two – The Diner

Chapter Three – Hotel Room

Chapter Four – Surprise Visit

Chapter Five – Diamond

Chapter Six – Late Night Dinner

Chapter Seven – And It’s Out

Chapter One – Stepping Out

Mia tried to calm her nerves. She looked in the mirror in her rental car and ran her fingers through her hair. She had tried to make her hairstyle look sexy casual but was afraid it looked as if she had actually spent hours on it.

She couldn’t help but be nervous. In less than a minute she was going to be walking into her college reunion. Anyone who graduated with a degree during her year was going to be there. That included Charles, her first true love, who had left her when he went to study abroad and study medicine.

The past few weeks leading up to the reunion had been busy. Mia had wanted to look her best even while she was trying to finish up her divorce from her ex-husband, Alex. She wanted to be a good mother to her son, Jacob. She wanted to get her apartment in order even though it was small.

Most of all, Mia wanted to curb her shopping addiction. Her earlier promise to herself never to buy something again had been broken three days after it was made. She had bought more than she needed to buy as usual.

She sold what she could online with still at of things left to sell. She had put what she had made towards her credit card debt. But it still wasn’t enough. In fact it had barely made a dent in what Mia owed.

It was clear that her desire to purchase things in the dead of night would need some sort of therapy. In fact, Mia had been looking up things online about shopping addiction. Everyone suggested counseling. But Mia couldn’t afford something like that right now.

If she thought about it for too long, Mia felt stuck. It was as if she had let her urge to purchase things send her into a deep hole that she couldn’t seem to dig out of. How was she going to deal with her debt and her issues if she didn’t have any money to get herself out of this hole?

Mia’s alarm on her phone went off which jolted her back to the present day. She had set the alarm in case she was running late in getting ready. She hadn’t ended up needing it. She had been too nervous and had gotten ready early instead.

I’m going to see Charles, Mia thought dizzily. She was still nervous but she took a deep breath and stepped out of the car.

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Mia nodded again to what the woman in front of her was talking about but she had lost interest about fifteen minutes ago. Apparently the woman remembered Mia from college but Mia couldn’t remember her at all. The woman, whose name was Maureen or something like that, had been