Nadia shrugged her shoulders and looked at her friend.
"Ball's in your court Suzy. I owe you some pretty big favors too. If you want either of these two clowns then they're yours. Just remember to be careful what you wish for. Especially with these guys."
Suzy looked at the two impossibly good looking and impeccably dressed men. One the incarnation of suave sophistication, the other the epitome of rugged, manly good looks.
It was surreal.
"That's right." Nadia said watching her friend's bewildered expression. "Welcome to my world."
Epilogue
Clayton walked down the corridor of the private care facility to the luxury accommodation he had arranged for Louise Komerov. Nadia was by his side. She had been visiting her mother twice daily since her return from Australia but at times she wasn't even sure if her mother knew who she was.
She had just spent the morning catching up with Suzy. Her friend was working through some trauma of her own that she had come close to talking about today and it was still on her mind, but she wanted to stick to her plan of telling her mother the news of her engagement. Maybe, just maybe the frail woman could share in the joy of her daughter finding love and being free from the long shadows of her old life. Once she had spent some time with her then she would return immediately to Suzy and pick up where they had left off.
She knocked gently on the door and then let herself in.
Her mother was sitting up in bed watching daytime soap on TV. She smiled happily at her daughter without any trace of recognition.
"Hi momma, it's me, Nadia, your daughter."
Louise continued to smile absently, nodded her head aimlessly.
Nadia sat down on the bed next her and took her mother's hands into her own.
"I have some news mom." She said.
"Is that right honey? I hope it’s good news."
"It sure is momma. Do you see this ring?"
Louise nodded her head.
"It's a beautiful ring. Are you getting married honey?"
Nadia swallowed hard. Maybe she would get through to her today, even just the tiniest moment of recognition would do.
"I sure am mom - and to the kindest, most beautiful man in the world. In fact, he's right outside. Would you like to meet him?"
Louise looked into her daughter's eyes for a long moment without saying a word.
The smile had left her face.
"What's wrong momma? Is everything okay?"
"Come here honey." She said with an authority that sounded nothing like the woman Nadia had been visiting for days. "Put your arms around me."
Nadia leaned in and felt her mother's breath close to her ear. A thousand small memories came back in an instant. She had embraced her mother every day since her return but never at the old ladies request. This was new and it meant hope. Nadia felt tears of joy come to her eyes.
"Save those tears Nadia." Louise said in a soft comforting voice.
It was the first time she had said her daughter's name.
"Momma, you know who I am?" Nadia whispered.
"Of course I do." She said, squeezing her daughter tightly. "I have all along."
Nadia felt her breath freeze in her throat.
"I can’t keep this up any longer." She held her daughter tightly but Nadia began to push herself free.
"Don’t push me away Nadia. I had to do it. I was afraid to say anything. I had to know he was gone, that we were safe."
"What are you talking about mom."
"I've never taken that drug, the one they keep asking me about."
Nadia pushed the frail old lady away at last.
"Momma, stop talking like this. What's going on?"
"My memory is just fine Nadia. I remember everything and I have a lot to tell you."
Nadia was shook her head, in fear, in disbelief.
"Momma, I don’t understand."
"But first I have to tell you about him."
"About who momma? Tell me. Anything. Everything."
"About him. Mikhail. Mikhail Boyevik. The man you hate so much for everything he's done to you… he's not who you think he is."
"Stop talking momma. You're not well. You're imagining things. I'll call for a nurse."
Nadia reached for the call button next the bed but Louise stopped her with surprising force for her age.
"I'm fine Nadia. Now listen to me. I don’t know what you've done with Mikhail, but whatever it is I hope it was permanent because you really don’t know who that man is."
"I don’t want to know. I know more about him already than I ever wanted to."
"Did I ever tell you about your father Nadia?"
Nadia shook her head rapidly from side to side.
"No. Don't say it mom. I don't want to hear that. I don’t need to hear that right now."
"I've got to tell you honey, before you get married, you have to know who Mikhail is, who your real father is. You can't say yes to that man out there until you know this. Then you have to tell him too. It's only fair to let him make his mind up on this too. Mikhail Boyevik isn't who you think he is. You're not who you think you are…."
Nadia put her hand over her mother's mouth and looked at the door behind her. Clayton was standing just outside. Her lover, her protector, the man who had saved her from herself. But would he be able to save her from this? Would he even want to?
END OF VOLUME TWO
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Sample Chapter: His Secret Request
Billionaire Secrets Volume Three
Ruben Mayweather is a perfectionist who likes to be in absolute control of everything in his world. CEO of a powerful international private security conglomerate, he specializes in tackling the most intractable of situations and negotiating with the most difficult of adversaries, but he hasn’t met anyone like Suzy Falstaff before. With her looks and intelligence this powerful man is set to take a fall that no-one, least of all him could ever have seen coming.
1. Prologue
Yes. She thought. Yessss. She pushed her ass back against him and for a second she was sure she heard a stifled moan, but quickly the tables were turned as his hands began to slide sensually down her arms, then to her hips, before coming together at her lower abdomen, his fingers reaching tantalizingly down to her pubic mound before separating again to rise up underneath her full breasts, causing her nipples to harden almost to the point of pain.
"Fuck." She hissed out slowly, uncontrollably. His hands stopped moving.
"Shhh." He blew into her ear, making it even worse for her. "This is your reward for being a good girl. Don’t spoil it or there will be punishment as well."
Something in her wanted to know what that punishment would be, something in her suddenly wanted the punishment more than the reward.
Chapter One - Excerpt
"Don't worry baby." She said to him. "It's only a man, he's not worth it and besides, when was the last time you saw one of those around here?"
The dog barked happily in response.
"If only they could be as simple and reliable as you guys." Redmond wagged his tail furiously, anticipating some kind of affection. "But a girl can dream, right?" The dog ceased wagging his tail. Sometimes she was sure her mutt could understand every word she said. She looked back to the screen and basked in the gaze of this being from the highest professional leagues of good looks, far, far beyond her grasp.
"God." She whispered. "Imagine having those eyes look at you in the morning and say: I love you, I want you, now I'm going to fu--"
Her attention was diverted away to the panel on her screen running CNN.
"What the hell?" She turned up the sound to hear a
recent ongoing story about some jackass football player who had been the victim of a sting operation. The guy had been caught with hookers and cocaine but for some bizarre reason he was blaming Katy Maldon for his troubles.
'What I do in my own time is nobody else's business. Hell, most of what I'm being accused of is legal somewhere in the world or even right here in the USA. I even paid good money to this so called privacy specialist Katy Maldon to keep my name out of the press but instead she set me up.'
'The woman you paid to keep your illegal activities secret set you up?' The reporter asked.
'Yeah, sure, maybe. I mean, I'm not accusing her, but I'll make damn sure she pays if it was her. And no I don’t do illegal stuff God damn it. Stop making me say things I don’t want to.'
The young man looked like he was still on something but there was no mistaking the clear reference to her friend.
"This is not good. Oh no Katy Maldon, this is not good at all…"
She tried dialing her friend on their secure line but there was no answer.
'Katy Maldon,' the football star continued, 'don’t waste your money on her. She was supposed to keep it all secret, I could do anything I wanted and none of you media snakes would ever know about it. That's right, if you're thinking about hiring someone to keep your name out of the press then don’t call her. Katy Maldon. Hell, she's the one you should be talking to, the things that woman gets up to are waaaay more illegal than consenting,' he turned to the camera to emphasize the word, 'consenting adults having a little party together. Hey, if you're watching Katy, did you like the little visit from the cops you got today? Up there in the woods outside of Lovett, Maine? That's right baby, I know where you live.'
The man's minders bundled him away into a waiting people carrier and the reporter came into shot.
'There you have it. Troubled ex-football player Jack Patterson in trouble with the authorities again and this time bizarrely blaming hitherto unknown female accomplice Katy Maldon for his indiscretions--'
Suzy muted the channel and got to work. Her friend was in trouble. Big trouble. First she would find out everything she could about the Hargraves. Then she would find out whatever she could on the mystery third guy. In the meantime she would keep trying to get in touch with Nadia to give her the heads up she needed about her assumed identity becoming unusable. Katy Maldon, Privacy Specialist, was no more.
Hell, if things got out of hand and they produced pictures of her then the FBI, NSA and of course her old friends in the Russian Mafia, Mikhail Boyevik and Co. would be all over the town of Lovett, Maine like hair on a Wookie.
This was a crisis and idle fantasies of hot, powerful mystery men in her bed would have to be put on hold. Friendship and business come first and second - lusting over superhot, unattainable guys, a very distant third.
END OF SAMPLE
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Her Sweet Surrender: Billionaire Secrets Vol Four
Suzy and Ruben continue their battle of wits and of the sexes to its final conclusion. The harder she resists his demands the more she wants to give in, but her world of chaos threatens to bring him and his empire to its knees. Neither of these smart cookies will ever give in, not without a fight to the bitter end, no matter how sizzling, crackling and spine tingling the sexual tension between them becomes.
His Strict Requirement: Billionaire Secrets Vol Five
From the moment he lays eyes on her Dale Hargrave knows he has to have her. What he doesn’t know is that Lindsay day has a secret to hide that will ruin him, his brother Clayton and his friend Ruben Mayweather. One way or the other he wants the feisty woman in his bed but Lindsay Day is a seasoned investigative reporter and knows how to give as good as she gets and much more again. Watch them duke it out with plenty of hot, steamy flirtation, sexual jousting and fast paced action along the way in this high octane volume of lip-biting love!
Her Sweet Liberation: Billionaire Secrets Vol Six
Dale Hargrave struggles in his pursuit of Lindsay Day. Will his world collapse around him if he finally get what he wants or will Lindsay give in to her deepest desire and bend to his will? Will Ruben ever reveal to Suzy the truth about his painful past? Will Nadia be able to reveal the truth about her father to Lindsay without bringing down the Hargrave empire? Find out the answer to these and more questions in the grand finale to this epic series of red hot, thigh clenching stories!
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