Marriage to a Billionaire 1 The Marriage Bargain

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.You were always beautiful.Silence descended.She looked up from her task and her mouth gaped open.In all the years she d knownNick Ryan, he had teased, tortured, and insulted her.He had never called her beautiful.Nick busied himself with whisking the cream and kept his tone casual. You know whatI mean.Beautiful in the sense of sisterly.I watched you and Maggie go through puberty,and grow into women.Neither of you are ugly.Or fat.I think you re being hard onyourself.Alexa understood what he meant.He didn t think of her as a beautiful woman, morelike as an annoying younger sister who grew up to be attractive.The difference wasmonumental, and she ignored the sharp sting of hurt. Well, I m going to eat this saladand I don t want to hear any more comments about women. Fine.Would you open a bottle of wine? There s one chilling in the fridge.She uncorked an expensive chardonnay and watched him sip it.The citrusy scents ofwood and fruit rose to her nostrils.She battled for one minute, then surrendered.Oneglass.After all, she deserved it.She poured herself a glass and took a sip.The liquid slid down the back of her throat,the taste both tingly and dry.She uttered a low moan of pleasure.Her tongue licked theedges of her lips and her eyes closed as the flavor pulsed through her body.&Nick started to say something, then stopped cold.The sight of her sipping and enjoyingher wine put every muscle in his body in a lock.The blood pounded through his veins andhis groin shot to full alert.Her tongue licked her lips with such delicate strokes, he wishedshe tasted something other than the wine.He wondered if she made those throatysounds when a man was buried deep inside her wet, clinging heat.He wondered if she dbe as tight and hot as her mouth, closing around him like a silky fist, milking every lastdrop of his reserve and still demanding more.Those stretchy pants revealed every curveof her body, from her sweet butt to the luscious length of her legs.Her sweatshirt hadridden up and flashed him with a strip of bare skin.And obviously she d ripped off her bra,not thinking of him as a man who wanted her, but more like an annoying older brotherwithout male urges.Damn her for starting to make things complicated.He dropped the bowl of pasta on thetable and quickly arranged the place settings. Stop drinking the wine like that.You re not in a porno flick.She gasped. Hey, don t take things out on me just cause you re cranky.I can t help it ifbusiness was more important to you than a real marriage. Yeah, but as soon as I gave a price you jumped.I bought you just as much as youbought me.She grabbed the pasta bowl and filled her plate. Who are you to judge me? You ve hadeverything given to you your whole life.You got a Mitsubishi Eclipse for your sixteenthbirthday.I got a Chevette.He stiffened at the memory. You got a family.I got shit.She paused, then grabbed a piece of hot garlic bread dripping with mozzarella. You gotMaggie. I know. What happened to you guys? You used to be close.He shrugged. She changed in high school.Suddenly, she wouldn t talk to me.Shestopped letting me in her room for our talks, then shut me out completely.So, I let her goand concentrated on having a life of my own.You lost touch with her for a while backthen, didn t you? Yeah.I always thought something happened, but she never talks about it.Anyway, myown family was screwed up for a while, so you weren t alone. But now it s like the Waltons in there.She laughed and crammed a mouthful of pasta into her mouth. My father has a lot tomake up for, but I think we ve managed to heal the cycle. Cycle? The karmic cycle, when someone screws up really bad and hurts you.Our first instinctis to hurt back, or refuse to forgive. Sounds reasonable. Ah, but now the cycle of hurt and abuse continues.When he came back, I decided Ionly had one father, and I d accept whatever he could give.Eventually, he gave up thebooze and tried to make up for the past.Nick made a rude sound. He took off when you were young and left his family behindfor the bottle.Abandoned your twin sisters [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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