The Departure: An Alpha Billionaire Romance

By Michelle Love

Gia finally takes charge of her life and things start to look up for her.

Ryker finds himself worrying if she'll ever come to him so

they can start the relationship he hopes to have with her. 

When he finds she's gotten herself back, he's overjoyed.

A test of the rocket boosters has Gia realizing Ryker will leave

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blessings For All, LLC
• Release date: May 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781648084324

Michelle Love

Mrs. Love writes about smart, sexy women and the hot alpha billionaires who love them. She has found her own happily ever after with her dream husband and adorable 5 year old. Currently, Michelle is hard at work on the next book in the series, and trying to stay off the Internet. "Thank you for supporting an indie author. Anything you can do, whether it be writing a review, or even simply telling a fellow reader that you enjoyed this. Thanks!" Sign up for her mailing list to receive advanced notifications before she launches her next book so that you can get it at a discounted and most times FREE! Use the link below to subscribe and enjoy your copy of "Dirty Little Virgin:  A Submissives Secrets Novel" https://dl.bookfunnel.com/3s2x148uer  Follow me on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014912882501 

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The Departure

The Departure

An Alpha Billionaire Romance (Focus Book 3)

Michelle Love

Hot and Steamy Romance

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The Departure

The Liberation

The Redemption

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Mrs. Love writes about smart, sexy women and the hot alpha billionaires who love them. She has found her own happily ever after with her dream husband and adorable 6 and 2 year old kids.

Currently, Michelle is hard at work on the next book in the series, and trying to stay off the Internet.

"Thank you for supporting an indie author. Anything you can do, whether it be writing a review, or even simply telling a fellow reader that you enjoyed this. Thanks

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Blurb

Gia finally takes charge of her life and things start to look up for her.

Ryker finds himself worrying if she’ll ever come to him so they can start the relationship he hopes to have with her. When he finds she’s gotten herself back, he’s overjoyed.

A test of the rocket boosters has Gia realizing Ryker will leave her one day in the not so distant future and she fears losing him. Thinking it might be better to stop what they’ve started before they both get hurt badly.

But Ryker comes up with an idea that might have Gia thinking about joining him on Mars.

The Departure

Stepping off one jet to get right back onto another, I look over my shoulder to find Ryker wearing a frown on his handsome face. Looking forward, I see Damien has stepped out onto the stairs to look for me.

Sandra and Tabitha come up on either side of me, Sandra whispers You hurry back to us, Gia. We really need you.

Tabitha pats me on the back. You’re the major brain in our trio, Gia. Please do hurry back to us.

Gia, Damien shouts as he waves at me. Come, we need to be on our way.

I’ll try, I tell them as I quicken my steps to get to Damien.

Gia! comes a shout from Ryker as he hurries to get to me. I jerk my head in Damien’s direction to see what he thinks about this and find him frowning. I need to tell you one more thing before you leave us.

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I stop and wait for Ryker to get to me and find him taking my hands in his and looking at me with more than a bit of fear in his dark eyes. Ryker, you know this is going to get me into trouble with Damien.

Good, he says then grins. Gia, I want you to be confident. I’m not going to ever use the information I know about Damien’s son. Don’t let that affect your decisions. No matter what Damien thinks, I’m not that kind of person.

That’s great to hear, Ryker. For the record, I knew you weren’t.

Gia, promise me you’ll come back soon. He looks into my eyes and I see the worry in them.

I’m going to see about things. I’m not making you any promises. The only one I will make you, is that I will be returning next month as the contract states I will.

He nods but my words have done nothing to comfort him. Don’t let him treat you like shit.

I won’t.

You say that but you’ve always allowed it, he says then pulls me very close to him. So close, I’m afraid he’s going to kiss me.

Ryker, I say but it does no good.

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His hands let mine go as they move up my arms. I should step back but I stay right where I am. My body tingles with his touch and when he takes my face between his hands, I melt into him.

Our lips touch and a fire rips through me. I’m kissing Ryker Crawford in front of his employees and Damien!

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The way his thumbs rub my jaw has my lips parting for him and he comes right on in, like an old friend. Our kiss is long and speaks to me just as clearly as any of his words could possibly do to make me see what he feels for me.

I can hardly breathe when he ends the kiss with light pecks. I love you, Gia. I don’t care who knows that. Come back. Whether you come back to me or not, just come back.

I can’t talk as I look into those sad, dark eyes of his. I nod and turn away from him. Tears blur my vision as I walk to Damien’s jet. I wipe them away as I walk up the stairs and find him still waiting at the top of them.

That was going too far, Gia, Damien hisses at me. His hand closes around my upper arm then he jerks me inside the plane.

I see Svetlana and Friedrich sitting in the back as Damien manhandles me to a seat in the front. He, not so gently, pushes me down to sit and I look up at him. You need to stop with the physical shit, Damien.

Leaning over, he whispers in my ear, You and I will be going into the bedroom as soon as this plane is in the sky and you will learn who you belong to, Gia.

My stomach knots then it quickly goes away. No, we won’t. I don’t belong to anyone. Not anyone, Damien. I’m going back with you for my own reasons. None of them have to do with you.

Do you really expect me to give you what I leave here, if you don’t do what I ask of you? he asks me as he takes the seat across the tiny aisle from me and belts himself in as the plane is readying for takeoff.

I’m not going to talk to you about that right now. I close my eyes and lie my head back to rest as the captain speaks in Russian over the speaker system.

You seem confidant, he says then makes a huffing noise. Let’s see how long that lasts. I will be reminding you of what I have to give you.

Yes, the palatial estate in Russia. The mountains of money.

The jewels, the cars, the purses, and shoes. The designer clothing, the fancy creams and lotions. All those things you now have are really mine, Gia. You came to me with the clothes on your back, which are long gone now. I promise you, you will not leave with any more than you came with.

I open my eyes and level them on his. I bet I will.

His right eye twitches a bit. He has turned you completely against me, hasn’t he?

You have done that on your own. I lie back and close my eyes again in an attempt to keep my relaxed composure.

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My stomach is doing a dizzying dance of knotting up then relaxing as my body goes between full on panic and trying to keep control of my emotions. I will not go back to the weak woman I have been these last three years. But it’s an internal battle that’s going on inside of me.

We will talk, you and I, he says as the plane starts to take off.

Yes, we will, I agree. I will talk.

Your head is held high now, he says under his breath. But how it will soon fall.

My heart clenches as I fear what he’s going to do but then it eases as I tell myself, he can’t do anything to hurt me. He only has the power I give him and I am no longer going to give him any.

I can hear poor Friedrich crying as we make our ascension into the sky. His cries stir my soul and I feel terrible about him and what he came into. But he carries the genetics that make up Damien too. I’m sure, as he grows up, he will have that same strength the whole family of Markov’s possess. And I remind myself, he is not my burden to bear.

My family is not my burden to bear. I have but one and that is myself, for now, anyway. One day, there may come more people into my life that I hold dear enough to make sacrifices for. These people are not them.

Spending time with the team has taught me loads about life. I was hellbent on taking what Damien offered me and making sure my life as well as my family’s was stable, secure, and one of great wealth.

I spent the weekend with people who are striving to make it possible to leave this planet, with all of its material things, to go to a place with nothing. Sandra was talking about doing a camp out once and thinking it was hard and she’d never want to do more than a couple of days of living like that. But she wants to go Mars,