Total pages in book: 67
Estimated words: 65489 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 327(@200wpm)___ 262(@250wpm)___ 218(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65489 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 327(@200wpm)___ 262(@250wpm)___ 218(@300wpm)
Later, we snuggled up on the couch on his balcony, enjoying a nice breeze from the fans blowing on us, as we looked out at the lights of the city. I’d had enough wine—we’d finished the bottle he’d initially opened and another—to ask him. “What things wouldn’t you want to do in front of an audience—besides skateboarding?”
He studied me for a moment. I thought he would refuse to answer, but after he pulled me tighter against him, encouraging me to rest my head against his chest as he lay back, he said, “I don’t tell anyone my secrets, no one wants to be around me when I don’t get what I want, and I’m incapable of relaxing.”
I rose up enough to look at him. “You seem fairly relaxed now.”
“This is probably the most relaxed I’ve been in a very long time.”
“What do you usually do when you aren’t working?”
“Not much now that I have you.”
I considered protesting, that yes, I’d let him fuck me, let him be my first, but that didn’t mean he had me in any bigger sense. We had this weekend, then he could go back to his billionaire life, and I’d still be his assistant.
“What do you want, Ben? What would make you happy?”
“Security.” The word was out before I could stop myself.
Miles frowned. “Is someone threatening your safety?”
My heart pounded and the room began to spin, but I couldn’t look away. This question was more pointed than when he’d asked me if I needed to tell him something. Did he know? Surely he had to, but if so, why was I here? Was this all a game? It sure as hell hadn’t felt like it when he was tongue-fucking my ass.
“Benjamin?”
I didn’t want to lie to him, not when we’d been so open with each other tonight, but I didn’t have a choice. I shook my head. “No.”
He held my gaze for a while longer. I waited for him to challenge me. I knew it wouldn’t take much for him crumble my resolve. I wanted to tell him everything, but if I did, all of this would disappear. He’d know I’d been lying from the beginning, and the fantasy would be over.
What if he already knows everything? Think of all the resources he has. You know he checked your background.
I was sure he knew who I was, but did he know why I’d come there? Did he know my father put me up to it? He knew how little experience I had, and yet he brought me to his home. There was no way I would ask, and I couldn’t confess.
“You’re safe here, Benjamin. You have all the security you need while you’re with me.”
Except I wouldn’t be with him for long. Either I’d have to give in and tell him the truth, he’d figure it out and fire me, or he’d simply get tired of me. I couldn’t count on him for security, even though I desperately wanted to. “There must be other things you want other than me. What are they?”
He narrowed his eyes, obviously annoyed I was changing the subject, but he didn’t protest.
“There’s an island off the coast of Ireland I’m looking into acquiring.”
“An island? The whole thing?”
“It’s not a particularly large island. I mean, I could have said I wanted to buy the entire country of Ireland.”
“You couldn’t actually buy a whole country.”
“Well, not if it isn’t for sale.”
We both laughed at that.
“Seriously, what do you want?”
“I can buy anything that’s available to be bought, so I don’t have to bother wishing for those things, but what I want is for Montgomery Enterprises to continue to be one of the most successful businesses in the world. I want my friends to be happy. I used to think I wanted someone to share my life with, a grand romance, but after Emily I dismissed that dream. Now I’m thinking I might have been wrong.”
I could hardly breathe. He looked at me, then pulled me tighter against him.
Before I could say anything, he pulled me into a kiss. I gave into the rush of desire. Letting our discussion go any further was too dangerous. Miles might yet pull a confession out of me, and if not, my heart was still in peril because this relationship wasn’t going to last. I needed to keep this fantasy to the realm of desire and pleasure, and not wish for something more, no matter how afraid I was that I’d already fallen for him.
Miles took hold of my thigh, encouraging me to straddle him. When I did, he gripped my hips, rising up, and pushing against me. He was already half hard, probably had been while we sat there and touched each other. It felt so good rocking against him.
The kiss grew rougher, his tongue thrust into my mouth. I clutched his shoulders as he held my hips, sliding his dick against mine. We were both fully hard now. How could he get me so desperate, so fast? He gripped the back of my borrowed shorts, and they slid down easily. I rose up on my knees so I could pull them down further, then contorted myself, working them off my body. He lifted his hips, and I helped him slide off his own shorts. Then he held out his hand to me.