Lahat ng Kabanata ng Badgering My Billionaire Bully: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

Cruz sat opposite of Presley after they hung up with her parents and sighed. “Are you okay?”“He stole money from Dad. He came here with the sole intention of making me go home, by whatever means possible. He plotted with your ex to drug you and you make you sexually vulnerable to a woman who would undoubtedly rape you, Cruz. He wanted to break my heart and send me home crying to my father. What the hell is wrong with him?”“So much.” He rubbed his head as he contemplated for the first time in his life he was at a loss of how to deal with a situation facing him. Even when fronted with the death of his mother being because his father was a selfish narcissistic prick who refused the woman’s treatment, he immediately was able to formulate a plan to get on the right side of shit. This, though? This felt almost insurmountable. While he knew their friendship from the time they were small boys until middle school wasn’t steeped with sexuality or the like, Odin must have already known he was d

If anyone had told Presley she’d be planning a fake wedding to Cruz Hawley after turning his life upside down she would have laughed. She would have laughed hysterically. Yet here she was sitting across from him in a little office in the resort while he told the lady behind the desk how he wanted them to pledge their love to one another before going back to Canada.It felt surreal.Sloane texted her a short while ago to tell her she was at the airport in Vancouver and unsurprisingly her parents and Odin’s mom were all booked in the same flight. She was baffled by it because it took months to get her tickets sorted.While half of her heart rejoiced at her family rising up to defend her, the other half was dreading the chaos about to unfold. It was starting to feel out of control and everything was moving at a breakneck pace. All she wanted was a nice vacation to recharge her batteries, get her creative juices flowing and to feel some inner peace. The notion of traveling three countries

Presley walked into the hotel lobby her hand engulfed by Cruz’s and felt her stomach rolling uncontrollably. Her parents were due at the resort shortly. Cruz did his best to keep her mind occupied about their arrival. The ache at her thighs told her he’d done a particularly excellent job indeed but now, out of the safety of their room, and not wrapped completely in his warm embrace, she felt the weight of the impending arrival of everyone crushing over her.“Babe, you’re squeezing my fingers so tight it would hurt if you were actually strong,” he teased her, lifting her fingers to his lips and kissing them. “It’s going to be fine.”“It doesn’t feel like it. My stomach wants to purge the entire contents of my breakfast in bed.”He chuckled at her words, “it’s going to be fine. I promise. I’ll be right with you the entire time.”“Every time in my life, whenever I’m present when Odin gets confronted, he immediately targets me.” She came to a stop near the doors of the lobby. They’d decid

“Well, you two look good together,” Anderson said with a smirk.“Don’t we? Told you she fits. See the way she fills all my negative spaces? It’s perfect.”“You have it bad.”“Not as bad as an idiot who told a woman she’d be having his brown babies within a year,” Cruz frowned at Anderson. “Did you actually think it would work?”“I blurted it out. First time in my life I ever panicked in front of a woman. I flirted with her, and she wouldn’t even respond and I fucking panicked and now I’ve been hiding from her brother. Have you ever seen him? The man is jacked. I mean he’s not as big as you, but they could use you as a body double for Dave Bautista. Few men on earth are as big as you but fairly sure Halima’s brother weighs a hundred and five kilos, easily. He’s also been arrested multiple times for running with a motorcycle gang.”“I thought for sure you’d take the hit.”“I’m a lover not a fighter Cruz. I need this face to convince her I’m pretty enough to be with her.”“You’re an idio

Presley was in her suite alone pacing.During their lunch, Odin took a phone call out in the lobby and then disappeared. Her parents were pissed off but they, as well as Marsha, were also too tired to deal with him so they, Sloane and Halima all went to their respective rooms.Anderson told Cruz he needed to talk to him about something and the way Anderson was watching Halima walk away, Presley figured the man needed to get his best friend’s advice on how to proceed. She thought Anderson was asking the wrong guy considering Cruz chased her with the tact of a bulldozer over an ant hill but what did she know?A knock on the door made her grimace, “Cruz, stop forgetting your key.” She grumbled as she opened the door to find Odin there. She immediately wanted to slam it shut.“What do you want?”“I need Dad’s room number. They wouldn’t give it to me at the desk.”“Can’t help you. I don’t have it.”“I need him to do the transfer.”She frowned, “what?”“We ate brunch together. He owes me tw