The Scandalous Billionaires Collection (35 page)

"Can you be serious for two seconds Bella?
I'm really worried about this. I'm pretty sure he had a hard-on for
me."

"Suzy, how the hell would you even know the
difference? When was the last time you were anywhere near heat like
that?"

"What else could it have been? The thing was
rock hard and he seemed pretty embarrassed about it. He left right
after that mumbling something about us not meeting again if we
didn't have to."

Bella was trying to desperately get her head
around what her friend had just told her, but it was difficult for
her to see any downside in the scenario.

"You want my honest opinion Suzy?"

"Give it to me hard and straight."

"Like Zachary Demovic? Scratch that Suzy, I'm
sorry, look, here’s my honest opinion; if he's literally got a hard
on for you then where's the problem? Jump his damn sweet
billionaire bones. He wants you, you want him--so frankly, I don’t
understand the question. You're both grown-ups, so just go for it
already. A sexy, romantic trip to the far East all alone with him
for hours at a time sounds like the perfect opportunity."

"I can't. It's not that simple."

"Oh yes it is and oh yes you can. If the
United States of America can have an African American first lady
then Suzy Price can get laid. By a billionaire. A hot one."

"Everybody else is warning me against him.
Don't go near him, don't touch him, don’t let him touch you and
blah, blah, blah."

"And by 'everybody else' I presume you mean
Melissa, right?"

"Uh, well, kind of, I guess so."

"Melissa is half the damn reason you're still
a virgin for Christ's--"

"I am
not
a virgin!"

"Oh really? In what alternate reality is
that?"

"In this reality. I've had sex, of course
I've had sex, I loved having sex, but it's just been a very long
time."

"And only ever with one guy."

"Would you stop it? Jeez, sometimes I wish
you didn't know every single detail of my whole life."

"That's what friends are for sweet-cheeks,
gotta take the good with the bad."

"Melissa says never had a relationship longer
than three weeks with any woman his whole adult life and that he
has serious issues with women."

"How do you even know that's true? Melissa is
always diagnosing everyone with 'serious issues'. Sometimes I think
it's her who needs shrinking the most."

"It doesn't matter anyway Bella because the
truth is that I don't think he really wants me around--"

"Because he can't resist you."

"He just hired me as a favor to his
brother."

"And as a special treat for himself."

"He wants me to quit under the pressure
of--"

"His rock hard body."

"He really wants me out of--"

"Your clothes and into his bed."

"Will you please stop that? It's getting
annoying. Besides, what about Kyle?"

"Kyle who? The DHL guy? You hardly know him.
He just delivers packages to your door."

"I thought you said they were hot packages of
love, bound up with desire?"

"I meant small packages of lust, bound up
with desperation. That kid needs to cruise at his own altitude,
because you are flying way too high for him now baby."

"You kept telling me to talk to him, smile at
him, flirt with him--"

"If you never hooked up with him it was for a
reason and that reason is clearly the 6'4" inch God of love and his
rod of steel who wants to mate with you in his master boudoir."

"You are crazy Bella. And disgusting. He does
not want to mate with me and that's a gross word to use."

"It's a man word. Trust me, that's what he
wants. He smells a healthy and very horny female in his vicinity
and he wants her. He's a man in the prime of his life for God's
sake; they can't think beyond the end of their dicks."

"Well in his case that would be more thinking
than most."

Bella's jaw dropped. She was normally the
potty mouth in their relationship.

"Double, quadruple whore-slut." She said in
delighted shock. "You totally felt his love wand last night! Look
virgin princess, if you don’t want to join this hot tycoon's
personal harem on his trip to Hong Kong tomorrow then please,
please, please just call in sick and let me take your place."

Suzy thought about it. Could she even do
that? On her second day on the job?

"Do you really think that could work?" She
asked her friend, sounding like the most innocent girl in the
world.

The plane was nearly ready to begin its descent into
Hong Kong airport and the day's hectic schedule of meetings and
negotiations would begin. Usually Zachary relished his work but he
had been engulfed in a black mood for the entire trip. He hoped he
could shake it before the delicate teasing out deals with Chinese
government officials began. Normally this was Jason's end of
things, but they had wanted the Chief Technology Officer to attend
in order to explain some technical issues and then Jason had pulled
out at the last minute due to yet
another
romantic interlude
with Melissa.

First babysitting, now this.

He didn't know which was worse; Jason when he
had been out of his mind trying to give away huge amounts the
family business to expunge their father's sins, or Jason out of his
mind in love trying to live his life like an extended honeymoon.
They weren't even married yet for Christ's sake.

Most annoying of all was the distraction the
trip meant away from dealing with the legal and practical hold-ups
to his university campus.

The sooner the two of them got married and
left all the lovey dovey stuff behind for the humdrum boredom of
matrimony the better it would be.

Lucky bastard.
The thought shot
through his head like a flash of light, raising his eyebrows in
surprise.

Jealousy? Me? Of them?

Admittedly Melissa was something special,
but to leave behind the billionaire bachelor lifestyle for… for
what? For marriage? That just didn't make any sense to him.

Plus Jason had had the cheek to lecture him
about Suzy.

He shook his head in frustration. He had
finally convinced himself that boning Suzy just once wouldn't be
such a big deal when he had received an urgent call from his big
brother.

'Keep your hands off her.' He had said, as
though he would be interested in a clumsy little teenager who he
had taken pity on. Except of course that she wasn't a teenager. And
what he felt for her now bore no resemblance to pity.

'Remember who she is.' Jason continued.
'Melissa is very serious about this.' And blah, blah, blah, blah.
there was nothing in his unique and secret relationship to Suzy
that he wasn't already aware of and he certainly didn't need Jason
to be such an asshole about it, acting as though he had no morals
in relation to women.

"So why the hell does the sexiest little
thing I've ever seen on two legs have to be her. Why specifically
her
" He muttered. "What are the odds? Any other girl I could
have banged already in my office I'd already have forgotten her
name by now."

"Here's the information you need for your
meeting with the Governor Zach." The pretty hand in front of him
made his cock stiffen again. It had been rising and falling like an
oil derrick since he had boarded the plane. And had she heard him
speaking to himself? It was beginning to get seriously
annoying.

He always got a little edgy on long flights.
Something about the confined cabin space made him need some kind of
physical release. He wasn't really one to resort to that kind of
measure but he had considered taking the edge off his desire in the
restroom. If just her wrist was turning him on how would it be if
they had to work very physically closely to together on something?
He was not used to holding himself back, especially where women
were concerned. Somehow the threats from his brother had only made
his new assistant seem all the more desirable.

He had never been warned off a woman before
in such strict terms before and by people so close to him. He found
himself wanting her more than ever and regretting his decision to
bring her on the trip to Hong Kong with every additional glimpse of
her tempting form.

Stick to the plan. Just stick to the
plan.
He told himself.

"What about the other two meetings?" He said
without looking up. The same elegant hand swept under his gaze with
more documents. He imagined that soft hands crushed in his own as
he lay on top of the woman who was forbidden to him. He imagined it
wrapped around his cock, slowly, teasingly dragging him to a
forbidden orgasm. He imagined that forbidden mouth coming closer
and closer…

Forbidden for now anyway.

"Is there anything else?" She asked.

He looked slowly up at her, allowing his eyes
to feast on the contours of her womanly thighs, her hips and
breasts, the elegant, slender lines of her neck and finally her
slightly pouting mouth. She had been in a barely suppressed huff
since she had arrived on the plane that morning, acting more like
an upset girlfriend than an assistant. He stared into her eyes
willing her to be with him and she stared back brazenly, as though
challenging him to take further action if he dared.

He shook his head and she turned on her heels
quickly and walked away from him towards the seat she had chosen at
the far end of the cabin. Her walk was confident now, nothing like
the stumbling girl who had fallen into his arms two days ago.

Decisions, decisions.
He thought.
Will I? Won't I? Who am I kidding?
he asked himself.
We
already know what happens here so stop wasting time thinking about
it and get back to work.

********************

Two painful hours later they were ushered
together into the top floor penthouse suite of a luxury hotel with
the most stunning views of the Hong Kong business district and it's
incredible mountainous backdrop. Suzy tried hard not to be
overwhelmed. The furthest she had ever been from New York was
Florida and this was nothing like Florida.

She was having the time of her life but was
determined not to show it. Hot, brooding and maddeningly tempting
as he was, Zachary was still a pompous ass and he shouldn’t imagine
that she was going to be impressed with any of this superficial
rich-list crap. Besides, Catherine had warned her several times in
a phone call before the plane left, not to let him charm her. 'Act
like a giddy little girl and you are done for', were her exact
words.

"Do you really need all this space to
yourself?" She asked, trying to sound more brassy than she
felt.

"You mean
we
, not I. And yes we do
need all this space. That room over there is yours."

He looked at her with the same crazy, sexy
stare he had given her several times on the plane. The look had
sent her running from him more than once, back to her seat at the
end of the cabin as far away from him as she could get. Her heart
kicked into high gear every time he looked at her like that and the
best thing she could do was to run and hide.

Or was it?

According to Catherine, maybe not.

She steeled herself and looked back at him as
directly and brazenly as she possibly could.

"I'd prefer my own suite." She said, and
waited.

"Let's get something straight between us
here." He said, looming over her, staring down at her, his dark
eyes shaded under his stern brow. Where he was looking exactly she
couldn't know, but it certainly felt as if those eyes were
searching her, touching her, wanting her.

"I'm going to need you close to me from now
on Suzy. You're my PA and that means you have to be ready any time
I want you, day or night, 24/7. I require full access to your
services and that's what I'm paying you for. So if you don't like
it then you can go running back to your sister or to Jason and cry
about it there. I'd be happy to send you back to New York tonight,
you can fly first class. However, if you're determined to prove to
me how tough you are, then you had better start shaping up, and get
this, 'no' is not an option where I'm concerned. Jason is the
business guy, the schmoozer, the charmer. I'm the technology guy so
there's no soft edges here. I ask for something, I get it. The only
word I want to hear coming from those sweet--" he stopped himself,
Suzy's huge eyes were staring up at him, straining to squeeze every
inch of meaning from his gruff, intense words and calling his
over-stimulated cock into life again.

He cleared his throat.

"The only word I expect to hear from you are
'yes'. Do you understand?"

Suzy's heart was racing. He was close to her,
way too close and they were so completely alone together.

Brilliant tropical sunshine twinkled on the
sparkling waters of Victoria Harbor and silence reigned between
them.

They could fuck right then and there with
that view of paradise behind them.

How many years had it been since she had been
with a man again?

'Don't be a pushover.' Catherine had
said.

Suzy was beginning to repeat that one like a
mantra.

"I'll do anything you want me to Zach." She
said slowly, avoiding use of the suddenly incredibly sexy word
'yes'. "Day or night. Full access. 24/7. It's not a problem." She
looked up at him without lifting her head, instinctively
accentuating the size of her big green eyes.

Zachary grunted in response. He hadn't
expected her to give in so quickly or with such a fierce
undercurrent of resistance. Somehow he couldn't seem to win with
this girl. She wouldn't say yes, but she wouldn't say no either. He
felt like he was dangling in front of her, struggling to catch hold
of something but the sexy little thing was always just barely out
of reach, secure behind an impenetrable, invisible barrier that was
beyond his power to break down.