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One Night Stand With The Billionaire Boss chapter 13
ElizabethOn Saturday, I arrive at Huxley’s parents’ place around 3:30 p.m. They live in a huge house on Shore Road with a gorgeous view across Hobson Bay. I have to wait for the white double gates to slowly swing open before I ease my Mazda MX5 convertible down the drive.Several cars are parked out the front, including my own parents’ Ford Ranger, as they’re good friends with Huxley’s parents. Huxley’s beloved obsidian Mercedes AMG GT is also already here, snoozing like a panther in the afternoon sunshine. I slide the Mazda into the space next to it and turn off the engine. After unclipping Nymph’s safety harness from the seatbelt, I get out, and she leaps across my seat, out the door, and sprints around the side of the house toward the back garden.Smiling, I retrieve the wrapped present from the boot and follow the poodle.Huxley’s mum, Helene, is an artist, a very good one, and sells her paintings at a local gallery. I doubt she makes a fortune, though, and most of their fortune
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“Will you come in?”“Yeah,” he says good-naturedly, putting one arm around her and hugging her. “Hey, have you said hello to Auntie Elizabeth?”“No, hello!” She comes up and hugs me.“Hello, you.” I give her a big cuddle. She’s only a few inches shorter than me. “You want your prezzie now?”“Ooh, yes please!” She sees the parcel I brought on the table and rushes over to it. “Can I open it now?”“Of course.”She rips off the paper as her friends crowd around, and they all squeal. It’s a nail stamper kit with kid-safe polish, over a hundred icons, and five design pods.“I thought you could all give yourself mani-pedis at your sleepover tonight,” I tell them.“I love it! Thank you so much!” She comes up and hugs me again and then runs off with her friends to investigate the different icons.Huxley gives me a wry look.“What?” I ask.“You know they’re going to want to give me a manicure.”“Why do you think I bought it?”He meets my gaze, and his eyes are hot, bright. “Don’t think I didn’t
One Night Stand With The Billionaire Boss chapter 15
ElizabethI squelch back up to the deck, ignoring Huxley, who walks beside me, trying not to laugh.“Come on,” he says, “don’t be mad.”“I’m not talking to you.” I mount the steps, while everyone who’s sitting there stares at me as I drip all over the deck.“Oh my God,” my mother says, “what happened?”I glare at Huxley. “He threw me in.”“Oliver,” his father scolds. “Seriously?”“She asked for it,” he says, picking up a towel from the pile on the side and tossing it to me.I take it and rub my hair, knowing I must look a sight. I’m not wearing waterproof mascara for a start. “That wasn’t very gentlemanly,Ollie.”“Then maybe you should have said yes,Liz.”“Yes to what?” Brandy asks.“Yes,” I say, “why don’t you explain?”“If you want me to,” he replies, amused.I glare at him. His gaze dips down, and his smile widens. I follow it and discover that my dress is plastered to my body. It’s now very obvious that I’m not wearing a bra.“Jesus.” I clutch the towel to me.He chuckles, comes o
One Night Stand With The Billionaire Boss chapter 16
HuxleyWhen I finally get out of the pool, having been dunked by a dozen girls about a hundred times, I make my way up to the deck and discover Elizabeth stretched out on a sunbed, drying her hair in the sunshine. She’s wearing a dress that I think is Brandy’s, which is of course far too long for her, but she’s pulled it up a little to let the sun get to her legs.I stand over her and shake myself like Nymph. She puts a hand up to shade her eyes and glares at me.“I’ve just got dry,” she says.I laugh and pick up a towel. “Dress a bit long, is it?”I can see her about to tell me to fuck off, but then Joanna comes up on the deck, so she leans back and closes her eyes again.Chuckling, I go inside, grab my shorts and tee from the bag I left by the door, and head to the bathroom to change. When I come out, Mum and Raewyn are in the kitchen, starting to get the food ready for the girls’ tea.“Are they ever getting out of the pool?” Raewyn asks. “They’re going to look like prunes.”“They’l
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I think about the way she kissed me on Valentine’s Day, and the feel of her soft body beneath my hands.I guess I am.“How about we have a bet?” I ask.“A what?”“A bet.”“What kind of bet?”“Come to the Sky Tower with me and watch me jump off. If I back out, I’ll do it in a cup for you, and you can have all the semen you want. But if I jump, you give me one night.”She stares at me. Then she laughs. “You’d never jump off in a million years.”“So what have you got to lose?”“Huxley, do you remember that time we went into the restaurant at the top of the Sky Tower? You couldn’t even sit near the window. You spent the whole evening with your back to the view, practically glued to the column. We had to peel you off it.”“Yeah…”“So how, exactly, do you think you’re going to jump off?”“I don’t know. I’m already beginning to doubt my sanity.”“I’ve done it myself, remember? For charity a couple of years ago. It’s over six hundred feet—a hundred and ninety-two meters. Fifty-three floors. Y
One Night Stand With The Billionaire Boss chapter 18
HuxleyVictoria, Mack, and I are in one of the club meeting rooms and have just started our weekly Friday lunch when Titus rolls in around 1:15 p.m.“Sorry I’m late,” he says, taking a seat next to Mack at the table.“No worries,” I say. “Coffee?”“Actually, can I have water, please? I’ve just had a coffee with Elizabeth. If I have any more, I’ll have tachycardia all afternoon.”“Elizabeth?” I pass him a bottle of cold water from the fridge. “Is she coming today?”“No, she asked me to send her apologies. She’s got some Japanese investors over—I think she brought them here yesterday?”“Oh yeah, that’s right. I forgot they were staying until Friday.” My heart sinks a little. I was hoping to see her today.I think she’s avoiding me. I’ve only seen her a couple of times this week—two lunchtime meetings and once yesterday when she brought the investors in for a karaoke evening in one of our bars. I had the misfortune of catching her performance of Adele’sSomeone Like You. The lady has many
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“It’s kinda romantic,” Victoria says. “And fucking stupid at the same time.”I glower. “I’ve asked her out pretty much every month for ten years. She won’t go out with me. What was I supposed to do?”“Give up?” Victoria suggests. “Accept you’ve lost?”“Yeah, that sounds like something I’d do.”“How are you feeling?” Mack asks.“Fucking terrified.”“But you’re still going through with it?”I shrug and give him a helpless look. “I can’t think what else to do.”He meets my eyes for a moment, and then we both smile. Now he’s got Sidnie, he understands the stupid things you do for the woman you love.“So if you jump, she’s agreed to give you one night?” Victoria asks. “What happens after that?”“I’ll be so absolutely amazing in bed that she’ll beg to see me again.”She lifts an eyebrow.“Yeah,” I say, “it’s a stretch, I know. I’m going to have to pull out all the stops.”“You mean you’ll actually have to do some foreplay for a change?”“And pay for the pizza at the end.”They all snort.Ma
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ElizabethI watch Huxley walk off and chuckle. “He’s positively green. Bless him. I meant it though. I’m proud of him for turning up. I was convinced I’d get a call on the way here to say he’d chickened out.”I look back at Mack. He’s standing there with his hands on his hips. Whoa. That’s not a good sign.“I need a word with you,” he says.“Okay…”“That guy,” and he points briefly at the disappearing Huxley, “is so in love with you that he’s prepared to jump off a fucking building. He’s absolutely terrified. And I’m not going to let him put himself through this unless you tell me right now that you’re prepared to follow through with the bet. If he does, if he jumps, are you going to do it?”I’m so shocked that I can only stare at him. “He told you about our bet?”“Yeah. And I think it’s fucking crazy, but hey, whatever makes the two of you pull your heads out of your arses and get your act together.”I glare at him. “He’s not in love with me. He just wants to get in my knickers.”“Eli
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