All That He Desires (The Billionaire's Seduction Part 2) (10 page)

He was still moaning when I came back down to earth, gasping for breath.

He slowly raised his head from the hollow of my shoulder and looked me in the eyes.

With one finger, he smoothed away a sweat-drenched curl of hair from my forehead… and then he grinned.

And kissed me.

22

We lay like that for the longest time, his sweaty skin sliding sensually over mine, as he gave me long, slow, lingering kisses. We gazed into each other’s eyes (though I tended to let mine slip close as I got lost in the moment). My lips felt puffy and slightly painful, but I couldn’t stop kissing him. Didn’t want to stop.

Finally he pulled away from me. “Stay here,” he ordered as he rolled out of bed.

“What, I can’t use the bathroom?”

“Oh… yeah, go ahead,” he said as he padded out to the main room of the penthouse.

“Thanks!” I called sarcastically.

When I came back out of the bathroom, the room service table was by the bed, and the silver trays were up.

The chocolate.

I’d almost forgotten.

I watched his perfect backside, entranced, as he poured some more wine into our glasses.

He turned around. “Well? Get back in bed.”

Suddenly I was shy – buck-naked and very self-conscious about it. I ran around the other side of the bed, jumped in, and pulled the covers just over my breasts.

“Here you are,” he said, passing me a wine glass. Then he placed one of the open silver trays on the bed next to me and got in himself.

“Oh my God,” I sighed in rapture as I let one of the pieces of dark chocolate melt on my tongue. “This night couldn’t
get
any better.”

“I can think of at least one other way,” he said, and nuzzled against my neck.

I giggled, mostly from the tickling on my neck. But not entirely. “I’ll bet you can. Too bad we never finished the game.”

“Oh, I think we finished it pretty well,” he said as he popped a grape into his mouth.

I frowned. “Yeah, but there were other questions I wanted to ask you.”

He sighed dramatically and took a sip of wine. “Okay: yes, I was cheating.”

My stomach turned.

What I heard was,
Yes, I was cheating on my wife/girlfriend.

With YOU, Lily Ross.

“WHAT?!” I cried out.

“I admit it,” he grinned.

I just stared at him. I could feel my lower lip starting to tremble.

“I
am
a card shark,” he finished.

I blinked.

“…what?” I asked, now totally confused.

“Oh, excuse me… a card
sharp,
” he said, and ate a cherry.

“You… you cheated at
cards?”

He looked at me oddly. I think he heard the enormous relief in my voice.

“Yeah… it was something I picked up a long time ago for fun. I always wanted to learn, so I hired a guy to teach me. One of the best ‘prestidigitators’ in the world,” he said, saying the word with self-mocking snobbery, as though he were ridiculous for even using it. Then he smirked at me. “I’m assuming you know what that means, Ms. ‘It’s really a card
sharp.
’”

“You stacked the cards?”

He nodded with a grin. “That’s another thing you’ll find out about me. If I can’t bluff, I like to cheat.”

At this point, the relief rushing through me was immense. I had a couple of choices: I could either break down and explain my misinterpretation, and look like I was Seriously Over-reactive Girl… or I could keep it to myself.

Hold my cards close, I guess you could say.

I figured there was no need to show him my
entire
hand.

“Put your wine glass down,” I ordered.

He looked at me quizzically. “Why?”

“Just do it.”

After a brief hesitation, he set the glass over on the room service table.

Then I grabbed the nearest pillow and
whomped
him with it.

“Oh ho!” he laughed, grabbed my wrists, and forced me onto my back. I shrieked as he tickled me mercilessly, and then it devolved into a hot, sloppy kiss.

“Now I know better than to trust you,” he said as he broke away and grabbed his wine glass again.

“Said the cheating card sharp.”

He shrugged, took a piece of chocolate, and popped it into my mouth.

“Don’t think that excuses your bad behavior,” I said as I let the heavenly sweetness melt in my mouth.

“I don’t. I figured the multiple orgasms did that.”

I blushed and smacked him as he laughed.

“You still owe me some answers,” I said in fake indignation.

“Really.”

“Yes.”

He considered for a second, even though I had been teasing. “All right. As long as they don’t revolve around women, or any relationships I might have had before tonight.”

“Hey!” I protested. “That’s cutting out half my questions!”

“This is the bonus round, and that’s the deal I’m willing to make. Take it or leave it.”

I sighed and rolled my eyes. In reality, though, I didn’t want anything to mess up the last hour… and if I’d been able to ask
anything
I wanted, I might have been tempted to do just that.

“
Fine,
” I said, and thought as I took a sip of wine. “Oh – I’ve got one. What was with all that Mr. Templeton stuff?”

He looked at me funny.

“What?” I asked. “The valet called you Mr. Templeton, and you said he must have you confused with someone else. But then the woman at the desk called you Mr. Templeton, too. Is that something Sebastian came up with?”

Connor looked down at his wine glass and rolled the stem between his fingers, as though he were trying to decide whether to tell me something.

My stomach began to knot up again.

He looked at me again from the corner of his eye. “You honestly don’t know?”

“Don’t know what?” I asked as the panic began to rise. I was fully expecting to hear
That’s my wife’s last name
, or something to that effect.

He looked amused… and also pleased. “You honestly, truly have no idea, do you?”

“Quit stalling and just tell me!” I said in both impatience and fear.

“My name isn’t Connor Brooks, Lily. It’s Connor Templeton.”

I frowned. That didn’t make any sense.

“But why would y…”

And then it hit me.

The reason why the name had seemed familiar was because we were at the Dubai Hotel.

The same Dubai Hotel on the E! Entertainment special I’d seen.

In which the host had mentioned the owner of the hotel:

Connor Templeton.

I’d heard his name before, but I hadn’t seen any pictures of him. I mean, I’ve heard of Michael Dell, but I have no idea what he looks like. I just know he’s the kajillionaire who started Dell computers.

But then everything clicked.

Connor Templeton…

…youngest son of the Templeton family, one of the wealthiest dynasties in America…

…a billionaire in his own right who had actually made more money after he split from the family business…

…and owner of the Dubai Hotel, where we happened to be staying.

I began to
freak out
.

I had just slept with one of the richest men in America.

No, scratch that.

I had just slept with one of the richest men in the
world
.

The Story Continues In

ALL THAT HE DEMANDS

(The Billionaire’s Seduction Part 3)
,

which is twice the length of Part 2!

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Afterword

Hello there! Thank you for reading ALL THAT HE DESIRES!

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If you read the afterword to ALL THAT HE WANTS (the first book in the Billionaire’s Seduction series), you know that this is a serial novel. You also probably know that as of December 2012, I haven’t written the next installment yet. (Edit: it’s done! You can buy ALL THAT HE DEMANDS Part 3 on Amazon right now, as well as ALL THAT HE REQUIRES Part 4!) If you would like to notified when future books available, just go to OliviaThornebooks.com and fill out the form. Also, I love hearing from readers, so if you want to just say ‘Hey,’ please drop me a line at [email protected]!

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The Billionaire’s Seduction Part 2

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The Billionaire’s Seduction Part 3

ALL THAT HE REQUIRES
The Billionaire’s Seduction Part 4

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All That He Desires (The Billionaire’s Seduction Part 2)

Copyright 2012 Olivia Thorne

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Edition: December 2012