Escorting the Billionaire (The Escort Collection 1)

I looked up at her, and suddenly all the belligerence went out of me, along with the toxic tequila I was spewing all over the road. Now all I felt was morbidly embarrassed and desperately in need of my toothbrush.

"You want to deal with the mansplainers? Start by keeping your shit together," she said. "Last time I checked, getting drunk and hysterical was the opposite of helpful. And please don't puke on my shoes. I just polished them."

Kyle

A few years ago, if someone had told me that I'd be a male escort someday, I would have had a one-word response: Awesome.

Now that I was an escort and hustling to earn every dollar I made, I had a different one-word response: Ew.

I loved the ladies and the ladies loved me, but I'd been playing Hide the Salami non-stop, and my salami was tired. That was depressing for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that I hadn't thought it was capable of getting tired.

Today, I was balls deep in a very horny, very plastic-y desperate housewife. Not only was she married, she had a horsey laugh and a habit of snapping her gum. But that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that she was over sixty and fighting it with everything she had—fake boobs, a perpetually surprised-looking face oozing with Juvederm, and lips so plumped up that I could rest my head on them.

If only she'd let me rest.

"Down, boy." She snapped her fingers at me then pointed her long, lacquered fingernail down there. "I only have you for another half hour, and I need you to rock my world so I have something to keep me going. Gotta have a reason to get my butt on the elliptical, ya know!"

She smacked me on the ass, hard, and I forced myself to grin. Elena said we always had to be nice and that it was especially important for me, as a male escort, to make sure my clients felt comfortable.

"You don't need the elliptical," I said, bracing myself. I could tell she was about to trap my head between her thighs and force my entire face into her clitoris. Again. "You look amazing."

She actually looked like something made from patent leather that had been left out in the sun to melt, but I wasn't gonna break the news to her. Her thighs closed like a vise-grip around my head, and I took one last deep breath—I was going in.

"Aw, that's sweet. I like the way you talk. But get a move on," she snapped. "My manicurist will be here in forty minutes."

* * *

I took a pretty long shower that afternoon, scrubbing every inch of me. I wasn't gonna think about that woman ever again. I wasn't gonna think about the woman from the day before either. But the woman the day before that was pretty hot… I might let myself think about her some more…

I snapped myself out of it before my cock could get thick and urgent, and I turned off the water. I toweled myself off and briefly looked at the wave tattoo on my shoulder. I'd gotten it when I was drunk and eighteen as a nice big fuck you to my father, who'd forbidden it.

Of course, he'd gotten the last laugh.

I padded out of the bathroom and threw on some underwear. Then I flopped across the bed. The worst thing about living in a hotel was that there was no refrigerator. Oh, how I missed the refrigerator in my old condo. It had been huge, and my housekeeper always kept it stocked with all the good stuff from Whole Foods. Smoothies, grapes, sushi, Indian food—my mouth watered at the thought.

And now I was at The Standard. With cheap towels, a stapled-on fabric headboard, bottled water that sold for seven dollars a pop, and no freaking refrigerator.

Let it be noted that I was fully aware of one particular fact: what goes around, comes around. I was living proof of that.

Lowell

"It's viral. It's absofuckinglutely viral," my agent, Shirley, said.

She was sitting on one edge of my bed while Tori, fidgeting and holding a mug, unhappily sat on the other. Between them was a laptop, a bottle of Advil, and a box of Kleenex.

I peered at them through one squinting eye, thoroughly confused. "Wass that?" My tongue felt thick and dry. I had no idea what day it was or what time.

"Your incident with the police last night. The video's gone viral," Shirley said, louder than was either necessary or nice.

I squinted at her through both eyes now. Scenes from last night came back to me through a deep, insidious fog.

"Coffee?" Tori sounded miserable as she nervously handed me the mug. She watched my face. "I'm so sorry. I royally fucked up last night."

I sat up and took the coffee from her, wincing at the pain in my head, sharp and jagged. "If I remember correctly, you told me to stay in the car."

I reached for the painkillers and took one. Looking as though she disapproved of my very existence, Shirley handed me a bottle of water to wash the pill down.

"Who posted it—one of the officers?" I asked. The specifics of last night were coming back to me in jagged, ugly pieces.