{"id":728,"date":"2022-01-19T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=728"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:50:42","slug":"manhattans-most-mysterious-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/manhattans-most-mysterious-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan&#8217;s Most Mysterious Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-b0aiv-e285b79aa7917100fdf2cfd828fa6bf6 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-728'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style 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Rusty reds and flaming oranges bled across the deepening darkness creating an impressive lightshow which he couldn\u2019t fail to miss each night, even if he wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three stories up in the Art Deco building\u2019s East Tower, it was impossible to make out the people on the streets below him, but he could imagine them, walking and jogging and boating in Central Park, riding bikes and motor scooters along Fifth Avenue, flowing into subways and onto the metro bus system, sitting in cabs, charging down the sidewalks with somewhere to go, or laying on grates, crammed in doorways with nowhere to go.<\/p>\n<p>Busy people, happy and sad people, old and young and inbetween, but all of them down there, while he was in his tower penthouse, watching. Alone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thank god.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He blinked and scrubbed his fist across his eyes. The nightmares had woken him again before dawn, dragging him back to the dark basement room, the fetid smell of his own urine, the cramping agony in his legs, fresh bruises covering old wounds, the fear crawling over his skin and stopping his breath as a key turned, and his eyes burst open to scalding light&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He forced out a steadying breath and turned away from the view as the dying conflagration settled over the Hudson and night fell. He reached for the glass of bourbon, knocked it back, letting the sultry burn scour his throat, glad of the shadows finally stretching across the room\u2019s polished parquet flooring and the luxury leather furniture. The glow of the liquor settled in his empty stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The blare of a ring tone streaked through his system, disrupting the comforting silence.<\/p>\n<p>It took him several moments to get his heart to settle back into his chest. He lifted the cellphone from the pocket of his sweatpants. He pressed the cell to his ear, irritation gathering to dissolve the grip of anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nate, how\u2019s it hanging old buddy?\u2019 Brett Charles, his childhood friend and the current COO of Morgan-King Enterprises, asked, his voice ringing with false bonhomie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Better before you called,\u2019 Nate growled, the husky texture of his own voice still unfamiliar.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Come on, man. Don\u2019t be like that. Listen I just called to say I\u2019ve hired you a Girl Friday. She\u2019s gonna be there first thing in the morning.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>What<\/em>?\u2019 he croaked, annoyance turning to shock. And horror.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat broke out on his upper lip, and crawled down his back.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t be around people. He didn\u2019t know <em>how<\/em> to be around people anymore. And he didn\u2019t want to be.<\/p>\n<p>The terrifying memory of shouted questions, the blaze of camera lights, the cacophony of sound and fury and too many people suffocating him, when he\u2019d stepped out of the private jet at JFK and into a firestorm of publicity still churned in his stomach from six months ago, every time he contemplated leaving the penthouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You need company, Nate,\u2019 his now ex-best friend said, his voice finally losing that grating fake cheerfulness and becoming soft with concern. Nate hated the concern more. \u2018You know you\u2019ve been alone in that place for pushing six months now since the rescue. You\u2019re turning into Robinson Crusoe, but without the paradise island. Or that princess in the tower, the one with the really hot hair. You need rescuing from yourself, buddy. And this is a good start. You need to get used to people again. Or you\u2019ll never get over what those bastards did to you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>What the actual\u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nate swore under his breath the fury gathering pace. \u2018I <em>am<\/em> around people. I have staff here, that you insisted on hiring for me, remember.\u2019 The thought still rankled, that he\u2019d had so little damn say in his own life when he\u2019d first gotten back to New York. Because he hadn\u2019t been able to function. Hadn\u2019t even been able to walk or talk for the first couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Whom you never see, or speak to,\u2019 Brett shot back. \u2018Because you stay locked in the damn gym or your office, or hide out on the roof garden while they\u2019re there for their allotted two hours a week. And you won\u2019t let them live in.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t want people here when I\u2019m sleeping. I told you why,\u2019 he said grudgingly, still furious he\u2019d had to humiliate himself just to get some peace. \u2018And I\u2019m not hiding out, as you so eloquently put it. I prefer my solitude, that\u2019s all.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You still having the nightmares?\u2019 Brett asked, the pity in his voice making the fury and humiliation start to choke Nate. \u2018Perhaps you should go back to the psychiatrist?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>No<\/em>!\u2019 The world exploded from his lungs. \u2018No more shrinks. No more behavioural psychologists, or trauma specialists, or counsellors or therapists. I don\u2019t want anyone else in my head.\u2019 Because there were more than enough ghosts there already that refused to leave him in peace. \u2018Nor do I want anyone invading my personal space.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Especially not a woman, he thought bitterly. Knowing Brett he wouldn\u2019t have hired some sweet old lady, he\u2019d have hired a PA who looked like a damn supermodel \u2013 because Brett with his cod psychology and jock sensibilities thought all Nate really needed to rejoin the land of the living was to get laid.<\/p>\n<p><em>If only.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It had been over a year since anyone had touched him with his consent. And he planned to keep it that way. Because the last time he had allowed a woman to \u2026<\/p>\n<p>He shuddered, the hard, heady throb of desire sickening him, as he forced himself to relive that last evening in Rome\u2026 His naked unmarked body lithe and limber and relaxed, humming with health and vitality and satisfied afterglow, the beautiful seductress who had lured him in like a black widow spider \u2013 with her vibrant chestnut hair, her cloying rose scent, her plump, slick flesh, her cries of pleasure \u2013 lying in bed watching him with lust darkening her eyes, her nipples hardening into ruched peaks again and then\u2026 Vicious pain had exploded in his head and he\u2019d woken up, groggy, hurting, and alone in the dark, dragged down to spend a hundred and eighty-six days and nights in hell.<\/p>\n<p>The throb died. His body going cold as the clammy flop sweat slicked his back.<\/p>\n<p>He shook off the vicious echo of fear, fury, agony, aware of the aftershock which still lingered, after being torn from his charmed, entitled, pointless playboy existence and dumped into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d survived it. Against all the odds. Returning home to find his grandfather, the last of his family, dead, and the business empire he had inherited struggling. It was thriving again now, as he\u2019d discovered skills he had never even known he\u2019d had in the last six months\u2026 But he didn\u2019t leave the penthouse, because he didn\u2019t need to, he didn\u2019t <em>want<\/em> to. He could run everything from here. 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