After his joke of a marriage came to an end when his wife ran off with a guest from his resort, Reno Albury decides one night stands are more his speed- especially if they were blonde and blue eyed like his wife. So he was jaded, at least he was having some fun. Until he came face to face with a blonde and blue eyed girl at his sister’s wedding he couldn’t play the fast game with. Loraine Larson has a secret that nobody knows thanks to her father’s money and high powered friends. She’s spent years trying to forget the hell she went through in Paris. Wanting to test her new found strength she goes back to the scene of the crime only to come back with more nightmares. She can’t sleep without seeing that monster’s face, but she dicovers a shield for that in the arms of her bestfriend's brother, and now she’s determined to stay in them no matter the cost. This book follows I Won Him At A Billionaire Auction.
Lihat lebih banyak"Did you call us?" Ezlyn managed herself and asked with a low voice.
The boys were looking at the girls standing in front of them from their toe to head. One of them even makes some bad sound and another one whistles at them.
One of the boys in the group asked with a devilish smile in his lips, "What's your name? And which year?"
Ezlyn answered in fear, "First year."
Another boy looked at Calista from her toe to head. But his gaze was locked on Calista's tiny waist. The boy pinched another boy next to him and gestured to him to ask questions to Calista.
The boy looked at Calista and asked, frowning his brows, "And what is your name?"
Calista wasn't able to utter a single word from her mouth out of fear.
Calista is an introverted girl. She doesn't have any communication skills. What she does is look at what Ezlyn is doing. And Ezlyn hates this fact of Calista. Ezlyn wants Calista to fight for herself. Only Ezlyn knows how Calista passes her days. Ezlyn suggested Calista many times to protest for herself when her stepmother torture her but Calista does nothing. She just endures everything.
Calista was afraid that she started swallowing. Ezlyn took a glimpse of Calista and understood that she wasn't gonna talk.
So Ezlyn took a deep breath and uttered, "Her name is Calista."
The leader of the group took a glimpse of the two girls in front of them and spouted, "Don't you know you have to show respect to your seniors on campus?"
Ezlyn looked down and answered, "Yes, we know."
The leader said with an angry voice, "Then you saw us and left without greeting us! That's how you show respect!"
Another boy uttered mockingly, "Shame shame! They have no manners."
Ezlyn uttered, "Sorry seniors, we both have done wrong and it will not happen again."
The leader said again, frowning his eyebrows, "You're the only one talking. Can't she talk or dumb?" The leader said the last sentence while looking at Calista.
Everyone started laughing out loud when they heard their leader.
How can Calista talk? Her throat went dry with fear. She lowered her head and leaned closer to Ezlyn's body.
Ezlyn said seeing Calista's condition, "Senior, she is actually a little shy. She can't talk to anyone easily. That's why she is quiet."
The leader said, more like mocking, "Shy! My God. Like seriously!"
The leader looked at the boys and uttered, "You guys heard her? She is a shy girl."
Everyone burst into laughter. Tears came to Calista's eyes for fear. Ezlyn was angry inside but couldn't say anything. Because she knew if she said something to them, it would be worse.
After everyone laughed for a long time, the leader said again with a devilish smile, "Hmmm, then what do you say to break the shame of this shy girl?"
At once everyone agreed.
One said, "Yes, bro, you are right. You should break her shyness."
Calista and Ezlyn got scared after hearing them. Because they didn’t know what they would do. They could do worse.
"What do they mean by breaking my shame?" Calista whispered in Ezlyn's ears in a frightened voice.
Ezlyn heard Calista and swallowed at Calista's question. Ezlyn was frightened too.
Ezlyn somehow managed to talk to them and uttered, "No no, she is fine like this. She doesn't need to break her shyness. Please let us go."
One of the seniors asserted, "Uh! Let you both go! Sorry dear, we can't let her go. But we can let you go."
Ezlyn swallowed and didn't know what to do. She doesn't want to be there but she also can't leave Calista with them. Finding no other choice, Ezlyn stayed there.
But she begged, "Please, seniors, we will never do what we have done. We will listen to you. But please let us go."
The boy said, "You can go but it's the responsibility of the seniors to help the juniors. So our responsibility now is how to break her shame."
Another one said, " Umm, what can we do to break her shyness? Let me think, let me think."
He said the words in a thoughtful manner with his hand on his cheek.
After a while he blew the trumpet in front of his face and narrated, "Yes, I got an idea."
Then the boy raised his hand and pointed towards the main gate of the university and said to Calista, "You see the gate, right? Go and stand in front of that gate. What you have to do is notice the first person to enter through that gate after standing. Whoever he is, you have to kiss him. Don't worry, it will work. It will definitely break your shyness, girl."
Saying this, all the boys shared glances with each other and smiled with cockiness.
Calista was about to faint after listening to them.
" What are they saying? I can never do that. How can I kiss anyone entering through that gate? No no, I can't." Calista was thinking this while in fear.
On the other hand, Ezlyn breathed a sigh of relief after hearing their seniors.
Ezlyn thought to herself, "I was scared by their words. I thought they wanted to do something wrong to Calista. That's why I was scared. But It's so easy. Calista just needs to kiss someone. She can do it easily." Thinking that Ezlyn smiled out of relief.
The leader of the group said, " Go then and get started." He looked at Calista and gestured to her to go.
Calista shook her head helplessly and explained, "Senior, I'm so sorry. I can't do that." Calista said that while looking down. She was stuttering.
While Calista was talking Ezlyn was looking at her.
Ezlyn thought of something and said to the boy, "Senior, can I do the work in her place?"
The boy narrowed his eyes and answered, "No no, only she has to do the work."
The leader uttered, "Okay, as it's her first time then I can make the task a little bit easy."
Hearing the leader both Ezlyn and Calista sighed in relief. But that was not actually a relief when Calista heard him.
The leader uttered, "Girl, you don't have to kiss the person on his lips. You can kiss him on his cheeks. You just have to do it with the first person entering through the gate when you stand there."
Calista uttered, still looking down, "But senior…"
The leader didn't let her finish and said, "There's no but. Look, if you don't want to finish the task then you both will be punished. And the punishment could be even worse. Now think about what to do."
The leader came a little closer to Calista and bent down a little and looked at Calista and murmured, "Think girl what you want. Think you want to get punished or just randomly kiss a person."
Ezlyn swallowed when she heard the boy. She took Calista's hand and moved away a little from them to discuss with her.
Ezlyn said to Calista softly, "Look Calista, do what they are saying. Otherwise they will not leave us. You see how terrible they are. If we do not listen to them, we will not be allowed to survive here. Just a kiss on the cheek. It doesn't matter who the person is."
Calista started to cry this time.
She said, crying, "How do I do that? What if it's a boy? I'm scared. Not by me."
Ezlyn said to give Calista some support, " Hey, I'm wondering if that person could be a girl. Girls are also studying here. You think positively. See, how hard you worked to get here. Do you want your studies to be harmed because of their troubles?"
Calista was still shaking her head indicating that she couldn’t do it.
Ezlyn said, wiping Calista's tears, "Girl, I know you can do this. You have to do this. Or we can't imagine what they will do to both of us."
Calista looked at Ezlyn and nodded her head and agreed.
The leader's boy said in a hurry, " Girls, are you done with your discussion? Or do you want us to stand all day?"
Ezlyn grabbed Calista and went in front of them and said, "We are done and Calista is ready to do the task."
The boy smirked and uttered, "Good, then go and start the work. And you will stay here."
He gestured to Ezlyn to stand there with them and told Calista to go alone at the gate. Ezlyn looked at Calista and told her to calm down with her eyes.
Calista was walking towards the gate with her trembling feet. She repeatedly looked back at Ezlyn. Slowly she reached the gate. Calista took a long breath and stood there. Ezlyn and the group of seniors, all were standing in the previous place and watching everything.
Calista was just praying in her mind that the person would be a girl. After a while Calista saw a middle-aged woman was approaching the gate. Calista breathed a sigh of relief.
"God has saved me. It's a female person. Now it will not feel worse."
Still, Calista was afraid. She was thinking, "What if the lady is a professor? Let's not think so much now, or we will be punished."
Calista went and stood in the middle of the gate so that the woman could not go. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Then she opened one eye a little and saw that the woman had come closer. Seeing that Calista closed her eyes again. After a while she felt the existence of someone in front of her.
Calista thought that the woman might be in front of her. That's why, Calista closed her eyes and without thinking of anything else, she kissed the person in front of her on the cheek. Calista stood with her eyes closed in fear of the kiss. After a while, without getting any response, she slowly opened her eyes and looked ahead.
Looking ahead, Calista's eyes became as wide as football's as if she was trying to get out of the hole right now. She was now in fear, amazement.
At the same time, Calista put her hands together and pressed them on her face. Calista couldn’t believe her eyes. She kissed the woman then where did this boy come from!
She chuckled, but it was sad, pained. “I found out I was pregnant the same moment I lost it. Our first child together bled right out of me and I couldn’t do anything to save it. How could I not know I was pregnant?”Reno pulled his sling wincing at the pain from his adjusted shoulder then lowered himself next to her and gathered her in his arms, laying her head on his chest. “Loraine, you were just a few weeks along. Some women don’t notice they are pregnant until months later.”She sniffed, burrowing into his side. “I’m not some woman. I’m Loraine Larson Albury, mother, wife, daughter and best friend to the most extraordinary people in the world. I should have known. Riana knew and I was further along than her when she found out she was pregnant.”Reno wasn’t so sure about that, but it wasn’t the time to negate her. He kissed her temple. “Riana has a weak constitution. Of course it wi
Reno sat by Loraine’s bedside, watching her as she slept. This wasn’t how he’d planned waking up the morning after his honeymoon. In a hospital room where his wife’s battered body lay connected to machines and tubes. The last thing he expected that morning were the words, ‘I’m sorry but your wife lost the baby’. He felt as if his heart had been ripped out of his chest by those words. He’d been breathless, collapsing onto the bed he’d fought the doctor and Ruiz just moments before, to go to Loraine. Once he was able to breathe, once he’d had control of his emotions and staunched his tears, he’d gotten off the bed in search of his wife. He’d wanted to go alone, to think of what he would say to her but Allan had insisted on accompanying him. He’d expected some words of wisdom from his brother-in-law, seeing as how he knew the pain of losing a child, but Allan just walked with him in silent support. It wasn&rs
“Loraine, please understand I didn’t mean for you to get hurt. I just wanted you to need me, to want me, to love me!”She shook her head, even more confused. “Why would I need, want or love you when I’m married to Reno.” Loraine felt her heart jar in her chest. She took a few more steps away from him. “Before…the first time he attacked me…that’s what he meant? The princess always falls in love with her knight after he saves her, that’s what you were expecting, wasn’t it?”Jeb moved toward her, his arms open in invitation. “At first, I loved you like you were my own child. You were such a vibrant and happy little girl, before they stole that from you. And then you grew up into this beautiful young lady and that love changed.” He caressed her cheek with his fingers and she quickly slapped his hand away. “When your father made me your personal bodyguard, it felt like
He released her hair and massaged where he’d been pulling at her hair. “She is dead, I did that for you mon amour. I slit her neck when she was done giving me a blow job.” He chuckled. “I got tired of mounting her after so many hours but thinking of you would make me horny all over again so I told her to use her mouth to please me. After I sprayed all over her face, blinding her, I grabbed her hair, pulled her head back and cut my blade over her neck.” He rubbed his cheek against hers and she could hear his breath getting heavy as he breathed on her neck. Loraine held herself from turning away from him when he ran his finger in a slicing motion over her throat. It was too much!“There was so much blood, spraying all over my naked body. And the sounds that came from her open throat, mon amour. It was so arousing, too arousing not to enjoy.”“Oh God,” Loraine gagged pulling away from him but he yanke
His eyes widened, his lips spreading in a toothy grin. “You mean it?”She looked at her son and the fear in his face was all the motivation she needed. She looked up at Pierre and nodded. “I mean it. Let him go and take me. Just like you’ve always wanted. Jeb won’t stop you this time.”He let out a hoot of elation and released Tyler. She fell to her knees as Tyler ran to her, into her arms and held onto her with all his strength, his little body shaking against hers.“Mommy!”Loraine felt her heart break as she held him tighter, willing for him to stop being afraid. But how could she give him that when she was just as scared if not more?“Ssh honey, everything will be alright.” She tried to pull him away but he held on tighter with a whimper. “Tyler, please.” She whispered pulling on his arms until he finally let go. She wiped his face dry and smiled at him. A difficult task wi
Loraine was startled awake by the loud crash. It sounded like broken glass, really large glass. She turned her head to look at Reno and see if he’d heard it but he was sound asleep with a smile on his face. Smiling she traced the hard edges of his face with the tips of her fingers. He looked so much like Tyler in his sleep state—gentle, innocent and harmless. She loved this man so much sometimes it felt like her heart would burst.Another crush sounded from downstairs followed by a child’s cry. Loraine’s entire body went rigid from terror. That was Tyler. She knew every sound he made and that was one of fear. Anxious to get to her son, she pushed Reno’s muscular weight off her but before she could get out of bed, she was pulled back, a heavy hand pressed against her mouth.“Hush, don’t move,” Reno whispered harshly. “Stay here Lori. I think someone is in the house. I’m going to check things out downstairs. Kee
Welcome to GoodNovel world of fiction. If you like this novel, or you are an idealist hoping to explore a perfect world, and also want to become an original novel author online to increase income, you can join our family to read or create various types of books, such as romance novel, epic reading, werewolf novel, fantasy novel, history novel and so on. If you are a reader, high quality novels can be selected here. If you are an author, you can obtain more inspiration from others to create more brilliant works, what's more, your works on our platform will catch more attention and win more admiration from readers.
Komen