Acknowledgments
Thank you to all of the readers that have enjoyed the Alpha Billionaire and told your friends about it. Thanks to the Helen Cooper Street Team and those that have read early drafts of the book and helped me to promote. I love you all and I’m so appreciative for all of your help.
Prologue
“There are three things I can do to you.” He grabbed my wrist and pulled me towards him. “And there are three things you can do for me.”
“What do you want me to do?” I took a deep breath, my eyes never leaving his.
“The question is what do you want to do?” He smirked, his fingers digging into my skin.
“It’s not really up to me though, is it?” I swallowed hard as his lips pressed down on my neck and he kissed me softly. Then I felt his teeth grazing my skin and biting down and sucking hard. It wasn’t the shock of his bite that made my legs crumple though, it was the sudden thrust of manhood that pressed into my as**s as he held me. “What’s going on?” I whispered as I looked into his eyes. He was standing in front of me and that meant that there was someone else behind me. Someone else that was touching me.
“What do you want to be going on?” He stepped back and let go of my hand. I spun around to face Grant, but there was no one there. “Looking for someone, Evie?” Tyler said softly. “Or should I say hoping to see someone?”
“No.” I shook my head, my face red. Was I finally losing it? He grabbed my shoulders and pulled me towards him and whispered in my ear.
“You have to be very careful, Evie. The games have just begun and whatever you think you know, is all wrong.” He paused and then whispered again. “I know I’m not the only one with secrets here. I know your secrets too.”
Chapter One
“Your face looks as though you’ve seen a ghost.” Her blue eyes looked at me with a blank stare. And then she touched her cheek self-consciously. “Excuse my lack of makeup.”
“Did you just say your name is Eugenie?” I asked her in shock. Was I going crazy? Wasn’t Eugenie supposed to be dead?
“Shhh.” She put her finger on her lips and nodded outside of the closet. I stood there frozen, my mind going a hundred miles a minute. What was going on here? She peeked outside of the closet and watched for a few moments. “They’re fighting over you.” She made a face, her delicate features looking hard as she gazed back at me. “That doesn’t normally happen.”
“What doesn’t normally happen?”
“Shh.” She frowned at me.
“Are you Eugenie?” I said and looked at her again, my mind spinning. Eugenie was alive and Tyler was the billionaire? What was going on here? I took a step back and felt something scratching my leg sharply. “Ouch.” I exclaimed.
“Shh!” She turned to me with a snarl. “Are you deaf?”
I turned to her and blinked in shock. What was going on here? Why was she being so mean to me? And where had she come from.
“They’re gone.” She said after she peeked out of the closet and moved next to me. “Did you want them to see us?”
“What would they have done?” I asked breathlessly, not sure I wanted to know the answer. I pressed my hand to my forehead and took a couple of deep breaths. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone.
“What do you think?” She mumbled and played with her hair.
“Uhm, I don’t really understand what’s going on here?”
“When one is good and one is bad, you—” She said softly, her face looking like she was concentrating on getting the words right as if she were reciting a nursery rhyme or poem.
“Who’s good and who is bad?” I interrupted her, my mind spinning out of control.
“Did you read my letters or my journal? Do you know who I am?” She frowned, her eyes never leaving my face as she changed the subject.
I nodded, feeling ashamed at having read her private words. “I read your letters.”
“I wanted you to read them. I knew you’d read them.” She nodded, a small smile on her face. “You didn’t read my journal though?”
“No.” I shook my head. “I didn’t see a journal.”
“I knew you’d read the letters though. He must have hidden the journal.” She chewed on her lower lip and I gazed at her beautiful face, still not believing it was her in front of me.
“Why are you here and how did you know I would read your letters?” I was beginning to feel even more confused. “What’s going on here?”
“He knows you, you know.”
“What?” My heart stopped beating. “Who knows me?”
“He knows you...” Her voice trailed off. “We all knew you.” She played with her hair again and smiled sweetly.
“What do you mean?” My face felt cold.
“He has your photo up on the wall.”
“What?” Blood drained from my face and I looked into her eyes searching for the truth. It wasn’t possible that either Tyler or Grant knew me. How could they know me? Why would either of them have my photo up on the wall? And which one of them was she talking about?
“Your meeting wasn’t an accident. Just like my meeting with him wasn’t an accident.” Her voice dropped. “He won’t let you leave.”
“Why?” I stepped back. “Why did he bring us here and which one is he? Are you talking about Grant then? Grant is bad news?”
“One is good and one is bad.” She repeated in a monotone and looked down. “The good doesn’t know the bad.”
“Who is good and who is bad?” My voice rose and I stepped forward and grasped her arms. “Tell me, I need to know.”
“It’s a pity...” She said slowly and stopped and shook her head. “I can’t say anything else.”
“You have to tell me.”
“No.” She shook her head stiffly.
“Why do they say you’re dead, Eugenie?” I muttered, thinking about the conversations I’d had about the girl in front of me. “Why?”
“Betrayal.”
“What?” I was growing annoyed at her answers. “What are you talking about?”
“I was betrayed.” She blinked.
“By who?”
“The same someone who will betray you.” Her eyes were wide. “When one is good, one is bad...” She muttered again and I stepped back. I knew she was going to be of no help. I peeked out through the door and saw Tyler and Grant standing there again, two powerful wolves decked against each other. Each man’s chest rising and falling fast as they squared off against each other. I could see the electricity sparking between the two of them as they gazed at each other obstinately. I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck rising, as the cool air danced off of my skin. I held my breath as I gazed at them both. Both men had an animal magnetism that was unlike any I’d known. And then he turned and looked into the room. Our eyes made contact and I froze. He’d seen me. I didn’t know what to do. What was going to happen next? Was this it for me? He shook his head slightly and turned his face back to the front. He wasn’t going to out me. Why not?
I looked to the right and stared into Eugenie’s frightened face. I knew my own face reflected the shock and fear that covered hers.
“He saw me.” I whispered to her.
“One is good and one is bad.” She said again. “You have to go.”