by Ashlee Price
“I know, Fran, but you have seen him. He is gorgeous.”
“Mmmhmm. I think it has to do with that kiss you guys had in the kitchen.”
“I thought you were in your room?”
“I thought you were smarter than that, Desiree.”
I sighed to myself. I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to say. There was a lot of truth in what she was telling me, and I knew that Fran had my best interests at heart, she always did, but I didn’t want to hear it. I was going to have him one way or another, and I had a feeling that tonight was going to be the night that we got close. I felt like I had been waiting forever, and I was ready to find out if it was worth all of the hassle.
“Look, Fran. I know you are not going to get it, but I kind of fell for him. I just want him once, and then he will move on and I will be able to stop thinking about him.”
“You act like you are not going to fall harder.”
I didn’t answer her. I knew that it was definitely a possibility. “I’m not in high school anymore. I don’t fall.”
She looked skeptical, and I wished that I had more power and surety in my voice, but it wasn’t sure at all.
“I just don’t want you to get hurt, Desiree.”
Fran had that tone in her voice and I finally looked at her. “I’m not going to get hurt, Fran. I know what this is.”
“And you are still willing to do it?”
Nodding my head, I knew that I was. I knew there was a chance I’d get hurt, but more than anything I just wanted Greg. It didn’t matter what the consequences would be. If I thought of them, I wouldn’t have answered the door and moved to the car that was waiting for us. When he opened the passenger side for me in the front, I was a little shocked that he was actually driving.
“No driver?”
He shook his head no. “Not tonight.”
Chapter 6 – Desiree
“So where are we going?”
He was driving more slowly than I was used to, but he looked good behind the wheel. I wanted to say more to him, something clever hopefully, but like always, my wit was gone when I was around him.
“I was thinking that we could have a bite to eat closer to home. I don’t live far from here and I had Marie make us a picnic.”
“Marie?”
“She is my cook.”
Of course, I thought to myself. Of course he has a cook.
“There is a great place on the property that you would like. The sun will be setting soon and it has a wonderful view of the sunset.”
I smiled at him then looked back out the window to avoid his eyes. I had told him about my love of nature only once, but he had taken it to heart. I tried to imagine him sitting on the grass in his suit, but I was sure that Marie had packed something in the picnic to prevent that very thing from happening. Looking down at my own dress, I was glad I hadn’t gone overboard. The skirt was a little short, and I worried what would happen when I sat on the ground.
All of those things were running through my head as Greg pulled off the main road and started to travel down a bumpy lane that didn’t have much gravel at all. It looked like it wasn’t used very much. If I’d been with anyone else, I would have been bothered by the changing scenery.
“Sorry about the road. I don’t come down here a lot, and I didn’t know that it was getting so bad.”
I just nodded, not sure what to say. We finally pulled off into the grass and stopped. I looked around at the small clearing. In the far-off distance I could already see the ridge that was going to give us the light show that he was talking about. It was a perfect spot, and I liked the dark look in his eyes.
Greg spread a blanket out to keep the grass and dirt off of us. The meal was light, but the wine was good, and as promised, the sunset was spectacular. I found myself leaning against his hard chest, and his arm moved around my waist. I was content in the moment, and when he leaned down further to kiss me it seemed like the most natural thing in the world to look up and meet his lips with mine. I felt an electric jolt between us, and when his grip tightened, I didn’t feel the slightest inclination to pull away.
He had me on the ground quickly, and all I could see were his green eyes staring down at me. When I finally shut my own, his lips were moving off of my mouth and down my neck. Each second brought him to a new area that delighted in the moist lips and occasional flick of his tongue tasting my flesh. Greg was driving me crazy, and only when his mouth reached one of the hardened tips through my blouse did I try to collect myself. His teeth made me cry out and then relax as he pulled away to open the grey silk top. His expression changed as he viewed me in my bra, and I could feel my face getting red with the attention.
“I knew you would be perfect, Desiree. Your name really should be Desire.”
His words didn’t help, but they were quickly forgotten when he unclasped my bra and pulled it off slowly. I tried to watch his face and expressions, but I was unable to. It was too hard to look at him when he was so ready to devour me. For the first time, I questioned if I was going to be able to handle his full attention.
Greg’s lips and tongue latched on to one of the bare tips and I couldn’t hold in the gasp of pleasure. His teeth were not gentle, but just when I thought to say something like ‘stop’ he would slacken off and lap at a reddened nipple. It left me going from a high, tense peak to a blissful valley that made me sink deeper into the blanket.
I started to squirm as his mouth moved lower. My eyes were looking up at the stars and I felt the brush of air on my legs as my skirt rose from his actions. I knew what came next, and if his mouth was anything like it had been on my nipples, I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to take it.
His hair tickled my inner thigh and I could feel heat on my core. Before he could even touch me, I was moving underneath him, urging him to me and inside of me. I was as ready as I was ever going to be, and the very idea of him down there sent my body into overtime.
“Please, Greg. Now.”
I could hear the desperation in my voice. I was caught unawares by how much I suddenly needed him. It wasn’t just that I was throbbing and ready to lose myself for the chance of an orgasm, but that I didn’t care about what happened on Monday. All I could think about was him inside of me, and I needed him right then.
Greg seemed to hear me and was quick to fumble with his pants. Sitting up, I opened his jacket and started to pull it off of his shoulders. Greg helped me until it became hard for him to focus on what he was doing. My fingers worked on his shirt and then touched the hard chest underneath sprinkled with short, springy brown hairs. I flicked my nail over his hard nipple and he gasped in front of me.
I made my own sound of shock and surprise when I saw how ready he was for me. Forgetting about the shirt that hung open on his broad shoulders, I reached out to take him into my palm. The skin was smooth and the rod so hard. Squeezing gently, I stroked him slowly, watching the pleasure pull on his lips as he shut his eyes. Greg wasn’t very loud, but his noises were like an aphrodisiac nonetheless.
He didn’t let me do more than stroke him for a few moments before pushing me back down and wedging his body between my legs. I felt the heaviness on my panties and then the heat as he moved them to the side. My hands gripped his shoulders and I cried out into his ear. He was too hard and too big for me. I was ready, but I hadn’t been as ready for him as I had thought.
My insides clenched down on the intrusion while my mind shattered. The culmination of the wait and finally having him was nothing to the feel of him inside of me. It was perfect. He felt perfect and I was lost. My arms moved around his neck and I pulled him down for a kiss while his hips started to rock back and forth into me. It didn’t take much to send me over the edge, and all I could do was hold on for dear life.
***
I was lying with my head on his chest, our bodies slick with sweat. My heart was just finally slowing down when his phone started to ring in his pants. The tone was off a little, and he finally roused me up to check
it.
“I got to take this. It’s Tommy, and he wouldn’t be calling if it wasn’t important.”
Nodding, I fumbled for my shirt to cover myself up. The glow of sex was still upon me, but the idea of the real world coming back was enough to get me ready to get dressed. Our moment was gone and our bubble had burst.
Watching the look on his face, it was clear that it wasn’t good news. I was ready to leave when he got off the phone. “Thanks, Desiree. I hate to do this, but I really need to drop you off and take care of some things.”
“Is something wrong?”
His eyes, paired with the tightness in his jaw, told me that there was something wrong, but I didn’t press further. It was something that he didn’t want to tell me about, and I had to remember that he was just my boss, not my boyfriend.
To be continued…
Billionaire Desireth Book 3: Billionaire Giveth
An Alpha Billionaire Romance
By: Ashlee Price
Prologue
One night with Greg was enough to get Desiree thinking about him all of the time. She waited for his call, and when it didn’t come, her hopes were dashed. After losing her job at the firm because of a takeover and then not hearing from Greg for a few months, Desiree is finally moving on with her life. She’s put the dream job and the dream man to the back of her mind.
Greg hasn’t forgotten the moments they shared under the dying sun, but just then she was a distraction that he didn’t need. He had a business to save and he knew that if he got her back in his arms, nothing else would matter. There were a lot of people depending on him and he just wanted to do the right thing.
When he finally calls her, she won’t talk. When he goes to find her, Desiree resists his advances. But Greg is determined to have her and willing to concede everything for one more night. He will give her anything to have her in his arms once more.
Chapter 1 – Greg
“Do you have any idea what I was doing when you called? This better be damn important, Tommy. I am not playing.”
I was trying to hold my anger in, but I was doing a horrible job of it. All I could think about was seconds with Desiree. Once would never be enough, and only Tommy’s statement that there was an emergency had gotten me here. If it was anything less, I was liable to lose it before I even got started.
“I wouldn’t have called if I didn’t have to, sir.”
He was sounding wounded. I didn’t have to look at him to know that he was upset. Tommy was a little too emotional for my liking, but I knew that he wouldn’t have called unless it was important. It was the whole reason that I had left Desiree at her house instead of taking her over and over again in the meadow. I didn’t have to like it, though.
“Of course not, Tommy,” I sighed. “What’s going on?”
“It’s Don.”
“Did he finally leave?”
Tommy shook his head. I was starting to get a little worried about what my idiot partner had done now. It wasn’t like Tommy to keep me in suspense, but he didn’t work well under pressure, so I tried to be patient and wait for him to collect himself.
I couldn’t.
“Just tell me, dammit, Tommy! I don’t want to sit here wondering. You pulled me out here, so what’s going on?” Well, so much for no pressure.
“They voted you out.”
I asked him what he meant. He said it again, a little softer. I think Tommy was really afraid that I was going to freak out. If I’d had the time to let it all sink in, I most likely would have done just that.
“What do you mean?”
“He called an emergency session and invited only a select few, just enough to gain a majority. I don’t know what all happened in there. I wasn’t allowed in the conference room.”
“Why are you even still here at this hour?”
“I never leave early. How do you think I have time to get everything done for you?”
I wasn’t sure. I hadn’t ever really thought about it. I just thought of him as a little magical. He could get so much done. Pretty much everything I needed, Tommy had already thought about.
“So Don is now the CEO?”
Tommy shook his head, again looking at me like I was ready to spring on him.
“What does he even know about the business? He’s never even here these days, and everything is so different from when he was. What were the grounds for getting rid of me?”
“Your decision-making came into question.”
I knew where this was going, and I just kind of shook my head in disgust. It was because of what Desiree had done. Her turning him down had caused all this. We had fought over girls before, but he’d never been so underhanded. It was a shock that he would actually do something like that to me.
“I can’t believe this.”
“Neither can I. That’s why I called you. They’re still upstairs.”
I smiled. I knew then why I kept Tommy around. He might be a lot of things, but he was always good at giving me what I really needed. Right now, I needed to see my old friend and partner. I knew that it wasn’t going to be good, but it had to be done. Here I was thinking about buying him out and he’d gone and voted me out. It didn’t take any money from me, but it certainly was going to make it hard to run my own company.
The whole way to the elevator, all I could think about was what I was going to say to him. What do you say to a friend who’s betrayed you? I started to wonder if the push to go public the year before was somehow related to what he was doing now. I had argued against the decision; we were making enough money that we didn’t really need to. Now I wondered if there had been an ulterior motive. Had he been planning this the whole time?
I was livid by the time I got to the top floor. Changes were already being made, and I could feel the temperature rising in my face. Who the hell did he think he was?
“Greg, good to see you. I wasn’t expecting you until morning, but no bother, it’s as good of a time as any to tell you.”
He was gloating. God was he gloating. His eyes were alight with pleasure, and I knew that he was enjoying himself. I almost wanted to ask why he was being this way, but I knew it wasn’t something I was going to get a straight answer on.
“I already know. Do you really think it will work?”
Donald did think it would work. His dark brown eyes were sure of it, and so was the set of his mouth. I wanted to hit him. The urge was strong, and I think he saw the change in my eyes, because he stepped back rather cautiously, like I was a rattlesnake. And indeed, I felt like I could strike at any moment. I also knew it wasn’t a good idea.
“It has already gone through. I took the liberty of putting all of your things in boxes, and I will have them sent over to your house in the morning. Nothing is really open around here at this time of night.”
“How did you get them to agree?”
He shrugged and smiled, not moving from the other side of the desk. My desk. I watched him sitting in my chair and I really wanted to wipe that smile right off his face. “You think that everyone likes you, but people like money better, old friend. A lot of the shareholders think we could have done better in the merger with Gary. You let him get it too easy because he was your friend, and that cost us all a lot of money.”
My teeth were gritting. There were a couple of people over by my library taking the books and packing them into boxes as we spoke. I could tell we were getting most of their attention. I couldn’t believe this was happening. I had given Gary a discount and a better deal because he was a friend and because he had done business with me for years. Me, not Don.
“You’re going to regret this, Don. I was going to buy you out, but now we’ll just have to see.”
I didn’t take much out of the boxes that I could get to. I didn’t need most of it, and if he was willing to take care of it, I was going to let him. I did take the Rolodex, though. Then I walked away. Violence wasn’t going to solve anything. I knew that I was going to have to be smart about this. It wouldn’t help
if I lost my cool. I wasn’t going to be able to take care of this situation tonight, anyway. I had to get my company back, and I knew that the only way to do it was to do it smart and patient.
Chapter 2 – Desiree
I woke up alone and missed the hard body against me from the night before. Being with Greg had been everything I had thought it would be and more. I had told Fran that I was going to be able to forget about him after I was with him once. I knew then as I lay there in my bed that it wasn’t true. I was never going to be able to forget our sunset picnic and my few moments in his arms.
Wondering what his phone call had been about, I got ready for work. I tried to pull my mind from the soreness in my body. Every part of me was screaming from the night before, and it was hard to ignore it. Getting in the shower gave me time to think about his hands on me, and by the end of it, I was ready to go to work and see him again. I knew that I would finally have the courage to go see him in his office.
When I was dressed, I realized that it was the weekend and sat back down on my bed. I had never been as impatient as I was then. The fact that I was going to have two whole days before I saw him did not sit well with me, and it was becoming clear that I had already fallen.
Getting up, I changed into some shorts and a tank top for a run. If I wasn’t going to see Greg, I was going to need something to keep my mind busy and get rid of all of the pent-up energy that I had at the moment. I wanted Greg, but that wasn’t possible, so I’d have to settle for the open road instead.
When I got back from my run, Fran was up. She watched me check my phone again. I kept hoping that I would get a call from Greg, but there were no missed calls.
“Who are you expecting a call from?”
I shrugged and wiped the sweat from my face. I didn’t want to see the disapproval in her eyes when I told her about what happened the night before. I was bursting at the seams, so happy with it all, but I knew that she was not going to see it the same way. She would talk about how he had taken advantage of me, and it just wasn’t so. I had wanted him bad enough to take the chance, and it had been worth it.
