Bartered Novels & Stories

"Are you sure I'd sell myself for money?" I shot back, and my voice was stern and angry. He crossed his arms and leaned against his sleek black car. He looked startled, but his blue eyes had a hint of anger in them. “You’re not trying to sell yourself. It’s a business arrangement.” "Agreement for business?" I repeated, feeling shocked and confused. “You mean pretending to be your girlfriend?” "Yes," he said in a steady voice. “For one year. You get financial security, and I get to keep my picture intact.”

I gave him a commiserating look as Wolf held on to me. "What did I tell you about trying to make me jealous, baby?" Wolf whispered in my ear. "Who says that I'm trying to make you jealous?" I snapped back but Wolf just smirked. "Please, you two would already be together if you were going to be. This is just a ploy to piss me off. I'm not dumb." he whispered and I sighed. My brain failed to come up with a response and he chuckled. "Yeah. That's what I thought." he added and I wanted to punch him. Finally we pulled up outside of a bar.

a nosy lady asked the street vendor as she bought sweet tofu. "Yes. Their grandson," the vendor asked. "How much?" he asked referring to the amount of tofu she wanted to buy. "For Four chillars," she replied. The werewolf currency system wasn't complicated. Most of the trading runs based on this currency system. They exchange goods either through currency or barter system. They have chillars, pesars, asimi, chrysos, Platina, and Lithous.

I snarled. “Then we compromise, little mate.” Barrett offered as he came forward. Well, at least his wolf isn’t foolish. “And what would that compromise be?” I questioned him, skeptical. “We get to fuck you. No marking, but we need a physical connection to you.” Barrett offered.

I questioned, wanting his opinion. “Can’t you live not caring about your grandma’s fortune taking away from her?” he bit back, consuming the coffee. And I smile, showing my teeth. “Fair play. We don’t have any other way than this. What an ill fate!” I commented, and he nodded in agreement. “I had four bargains for this marriage,” I began. “One, I can do what I want as long as it doesn’t ruin our families.” “Fair, so am I,” he said, revealing his drop-gorgeous smile. The pleasures in his countenance, pondering for a second. “That’s a new one, huh.”

Thus when there is no other option, and the option that I provides allowed them to keep their little sliver of their pride intact, naturally they would jump on it and agreed to it immediately. Thus, another options has been made, and I called these impromptu agreements as the Aeternum and Wasteland Settlement Good will Act. Aeternum will acquire all the stocked piled foods, that they bought from the Merchant Guilds and the Merchant Groups, at half price that they bought them. But instead of buying them using money, it was agreed that the form of monetary exchanged will not take place at all, instead Aeternum will replaced all the collected foods, with Aeternum foods, in short it was a barter

"It's all a dance. You make a move, I make a move and maybe, later, we get to know each other." "That might be true of every man in this bar but not this one. In my life I barter. This morning I bartered with a rancher. No money changed hands. I left him with eighty bales of alfalfa and drove away with a fifty year old John Deere tractor on my truck. Later this afternoon I traded with a family. They got the propane tank they needed and I got a truck load of corn. In here the game is usually different. I won't play." "Why not? Wouldn't spending time dancing with me be worth something?"

Sharriah said, she was not sure yet if she could trust the young lad, he seemed quite wise, wiser than his age, "Because, all other people you meet won't have your time, they might go robbing you instead, after all, you are not giving me the peanut as a compensation for helping you, it's called, a trade by barter, now let's move, danger lurks in this forest."

"I was wondering what you'd do now that Knox doesn't look like he is done with you. He just began, but oh… you seem to have something precious of his and I think you should give it back if you don't want things to go further south." He tilted his head to the side like he didn't believe what I had just said. I stood my ground, refusing to show panic. "Are you trying to bargain with me?" He sounded insulted. "Bargain? No. It's the only resolution my pity has — to stand and watch a son humiliate his father." He scoffed in response. His gaze held a new seriousness and something quite too dark to name. His jaw tightened before his lips moved. "Let me treat you to lunch at my place and we'll discu

I scowl. Darius draws in a long breath and exhales loudly. Clearing his throat, he throws the words at me. “My lord, Imprinting on a moon Eclipse will take mutual consent of both parties involved to take part in an unmarking ritual before one can be free. You can't reject her, My Lord, the sacred unmarking ritual under a full moon is the only card out.” The words flare me up. “Preposterous!” I bark out, angry swelling further inside of me. Darius shuts his eyes as I close the shirt distance between us.