Auctioned to the Billionaire

I take a step backward, but then I ball my fists by my side and shake my head.

“I’ve just saved my dad’s business. I’ve just paid off my student loans. I’m making shit happen,” I say, even though I don’t recognize my voice.

I take a deep breath, shove the card in the door, and step into a luxurious, dimly lit foyer. It opens up to a spacious living room with plush white linen couches and an adjoining dining room. Letting the scent of masculine cologne filter through my senses, I tell myself to relax and breathe. That it will be fine. That I can do this.

And then I realize that I can’t. Can’t relax. Can’t breathe. Can’t do a damn thing because my eyes lock with the ones behind the tiny bar a few feet from the dining table. The blue-green eyes are excruciatingly familiar being that I’ve glared into them before.

“You,” I hiss, and he nods his gorgeous head.

“Yes, Little Flick,” Jackson Cade says, and desire and fury pool in my core. “Me.”

4

Jackson

With her back against my front door and her big green eyes unblinking, Flick looks like a lost little lamb. My lamb. After all, I’ve fucked myself ten times over to be the first to get a taste of her. Gazing at her now—in a white sleeveless dress that skims those golden thighs I want clenched around my ears and her dark brown hair hanging in a loose braid over one tan shoulder—I don’t feel an ounce of regret.

“You’re Conquer&Please,” she whispers, shaking her head in disbelief. “Please tell me this is a joke.”

“My bank statement doesn’t seem to be laughing.” In fact, I’d gotten a call from the bank this morning about my “unusual” transaction. I finish pouring my whisky, then walk from behind the bar, approaching her slowly. “Why are you trembling?”

“Because it’s … you.” She curls her lips in a sneer. If she weren’t so beautiful, I might be offended, but nothing can bring my kingdom tumbling down tonight. Tonight, I’m at the very top of the castle and very soon I’ll be on top of her. Her hand flies to her wrist, but since her hairband isn’t there, she scrapes at bare skin. “Look, Mr. Cade, we can ask them to refund you. We can—”

“Follow through with our original arrangement,” I say firmly. Using my free hand, I wrap the hair at the nape of her neck around my fingers, carelessly unraveling her demure braid. She moans. Sweet fucking Jesus, I need more of that, not her looking at me like I’m the antichrist.

“Don’t you think that’s a bad idea?” she whispers.

“And what would be the alternative for you? Some eighty-year-old Viagra-popper with balls down to his knees? Or maybe that the tongue between your legs belong to a man whose only conquest is a video game empire and a fuck doll?”

Arching that sinful body I’ve ached to claim since the second I laid eyes on her, she shakes her head. “I … no. No, I don’t want that.”

I bend my head to brush my lips to the top of her ear and breathe her in. Her scent is like a fucking drug. Peachy vanilla wholesomeness. My cock twitches eagerly because I know her pussy will be just as mind-blowingly addictive.

“I can promise you my balls are right where they belong.” I blow softly on her ear, ruffling her hair. She grips my upper arms and rakes her short fingernails into the starched fabric of my shirt. I was held up at the office longer than I intended, so I hadn’t had time to change. Not that it matters. I don’t plan on staying in the shirt much longer. “I swear, when I eat your pussy, you won’t wonder how soon it’ll be over or where you’re going to spend all the money. You won’t even think about V-Bay after I’m done with you.”

Her petite body trembles all over, but she stops herself at the sound of my chuckle. Jerking her head back, she grinds out, “And just how did you find me on that site? Do you regularly troll the internet looking for cherries to pop?” Her sarcastic tone and the defiant tilt of her chin make me want to put her across my knee and paddle that perky little ass until it’s sore and red.

“Do I look like that’s my M.O.?” Slipping my hand out of her hair, I give her the honest truth about how I discovered her secret. She lets out another soft moan and drops her hands from my arms to splay them on the door behind her. “Don’t look so shocked. I knew I was going to fuck you from the moment you opened your mouth. Then Nate found you on that goddamn site and I couldn’t let you go to another man.”