“Then how did he break through your titanium armor? At first, I thought you two were pretending to date. But it’s real?” He shook his head. “And having intimacy in public when anyone could take pictures and sell them to just about any trash magazine? Nobody should know that better than you and Nick. How the hell do I keep my son out of trouble? Out of the spotlight? Hiring you was supposed to stop this kind of shit.”
I’d never felt so low. Never. “I’m so sorry.”
At this point, even Nick had the decency to look ashamed. Yes, he was in a relationship like his father had commanded, but the entire point had been to clean up his image for the company. Having sex on the floor of a boxing ring was hardly what the board had in mind.
Mitchell rewarded each of us with a long look.
“Fortunately, I was able to reason with the man and obtain the flash drive for myself.”
Both Nick and I blinked up in shock. But it was Nick who asked the question.
“...how?”
“By promising him an interview,” Mitchell replied. “Every news cooperation on the planet will be fighting for the inside exclusive on the wedding. I promised it to him.”
Nick and I both started nodded in automatic compliance, but then stopped at the same time, frowning at the one word that didn’t fit in with the rest. Again, Nick took the lead.
“I’m sorry,” he shook his head blankly, “whose wedding?”
Mitchell’s lips curled up in the darkest smile I had ever seen.
“Yours.”
To be continued in book 3
Book 3
The Billionaire’s Temptation
Part 3
Sierra Rose
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Chapter 1
THEY SAY YOUR WORLD can change in a single instant. A single moment in time, after which nothing will ever, ever be the same. Blink, and you miss it.
My world changed with a single word.
Yours.
Nobody moved. Not me. Not Nick. Not even Mitchell—who was still staring down at us like a spider who’d caught two unsuspecting flies in his web. We just stayed there, for some indeterminate amount of time, in a state of paralytic shock.
The room was cold, and the two of us were still completely naked under the sheets, but at the moment, I don’t think either one of us gave it a second thought. We just lay there, frozen, staring up at Mitchell like at any moment, he would crack a sudden smile and explain the real reason he was standing there. Because it couldn’t be what he’d said. That couldn’t be happening.
Finally, after a full minute of silence, a strange smile began spreading up the side of Nick’s face. It never quite reached his eyes, but it hovered there nonetheless—like it was waiting to be swayed either way.
“Something funny, son?”
Nick’s head jerked once, but the smile remained.