Auctioned to Him Book 8
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I climb back into the helicopter as if I’m floating on a cloud. Before closing the door, he kisses me on the hand and wishes me a good flight.
I keep my eyes on Aiden as we fly away and I keep looking long after he and the yacht disappear into the ocean.
When the New York skyline appears before us on the horizon, my phone beeps and I look down at the text.
“Now, you have the full $250,000 to be unwise with. Go live your life to the fullest. Pursue your dreams. Nothing else in the world is worth it.”
The number is a perfect match to the one on the card that Aiden gave me. It takes me a minute to realize what he means by the full $250,000. But I still don’t believe it until I can see it with my own eyes. Quickly, I log into my student loan account. And instead of $151,329, which I owed last month, the balance now reads $0.00.
“You paid off my student loans??” I text Aiden.
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because you deserve the full quarter million to be unwise with.”
I shake my head, not believing that any of this is really real. Who the hell are you Aiden Black?
THE END (for now)
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About Auctioned to Him 2
His for a Week
Aiden
I wanted to own her from the minute I saw her. That’s why I bought her for the night at my yacht party, but that one night wasn’t enough. I crave her. I have to have her. And for the first time, in a long time, I feel like I’m falling for someone. That can’t be right. I’m a confirmed bachelor. I love one-night stands and women who leave in the morning. But Ellie is different. She challenges me. She doesn’t listen. She frustrates me on every level and that makes me want her even more. It’s not just sex I want. Oh, no…I want more. This week, there are no rules.
Ellie
I’m a good girl who has never had a one-night stand, let alone let myself be auctioned off to the highest bidder. But that night with Mr. Black on his yacht was amazing and it gave me enough money to pay off all of my school loans. I doubted that I would ever see him again. He is a manwhore, after all. He may be beautiful and flawless on the outside, and damaged and tormented on the inside, but he’s still a manwhore.
But then he called. Now I know that what I felt was real. It’s not just the dark pleasures that are pulling me back to him. It’s something more, but Aiden Black doesn’t just want to go on a date like a normal person. No, he wants me to be his for a week. On call. To do whatever he demands. Do I dare comply?
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About Auctioned to Him 3: Back to the Yacht
The hotly anticipated third book of the Auctioned to Him series continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.
Mr. Black is Aiden and Aiden is Mr. Black. They are the same person except that they’re not. Aiden is kind and sweet and Mr. Black is demanding and rule-oriented. One thing is for sure, Aiden Black is as beautiful and flawless on the outside as he is tormented and damaged on the inside.
I’m a good girl who had never even had a one-night stand before I went to his yacht party. And there, I let myself be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Ever since that night, Mr. Black’s scorching flames have singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I crave him and I couldn’t stay away from him even if I wanted to. He is my addiction. He is my every desire.
So, when he invites me to another one of his yacht parties…I can’t say no.
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About Auctioned to Him 4
The hotly anticipated fourth book of the Auctioned to Him series continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.
Aiden Black is beautiful and flawless and tormented and damaged. I’m a good girl who never thought that she would fall for a man who would buy her at an auction. But what started out as a relationship of pure lust has evolved into something more…love. The more I fall in love with him, the more I crave him. I can’t stay away.
And now that his business is falling apart, he needs me more than ever. When I see the opportunity to help him, I have to take it…
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About Auctioned to Him 5
Book 5 in the Bestselling series - includes Book 1 as a BONUS! The hotly anticipated 5th book continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.
I never expected to participate in an auction, let alone fall in love with a man who would buy me. But here we are. Aiden Black is beautiful and damaged. Our love started out as pure lust and now it’s so much more. His business is going up in flames and he needs me as much as I need him.
But when we attend a lavish party in Maine, everything that was going so right, suddenly starts to go wrong. Suddenly, there’s no way out. Or is there? Can our love survive this?
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About Auctioned To Him 6
The hotly anticipated 6th book of the Auctioned to Him series continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.
“Whenever you’re not around, it’s all I can do to think about you. I crave you…You make me want to be a better man, Ellie.” With these words, the beautiful and damaged Aiden Black asked me to marry him.
He has made me the happiest woman in the world, even though our life together is far from perfect. My best friend needs justice for what happened to her in Maine and Aiden is now unemployed after his billion dollar company was stolen from him. Will all this turmoil make us stronger or will it just make us fall apart?
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Auctioned to Him 7
The hotly anticipated 7th book of the Auctioned to Him series continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.
“I’m going to do bad things to you,” I say after a moment. As much as I love her, I also crave her. This trip to the Caribbean is going to be so much more than a trip for us to get to know each other. No, I need to blow off some steam. Way too much shit has happened recently to both of us. And we deserve some time to…get to know each other in another way.
“Oh, really?” she asks, her eyes twinkling in the starlight. “Like what?”
“Mr. Black is coming back. With a vengeance.”
Her body quivers, but she doesn’t budge. I inhale deeply. This is something I’ve been thinking about for quite some time. But other things have come up, gotten in the way. And now, well, the timing couldn’t be better.
“I need you to sign a contract.”
“What kind of contract?”
“A contract that will make you mine.”
She looks surprised, appalled even. But then a small smile forms at the corner of her lips.
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Auctioned to Him 8
The hotly anticipated 8th book of the Auctioned to Him series continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.
Ellie never wanted a child or a husband. She didn’t spend her childhood dreaming of those things. But when the pregnancy test comes back positive, Ellie has some decisions to make. She loves Aiden, but is she ready to marry him and have a family with him? Especially, since she’s busy adjusting to a surprise visit from her sister and trying to sort out what happened to Caroline?
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Prologue - Aiden
When I take off…
I leave Ellie’s apartment fuming. How does she not understand that I was just trying to help her? It’s not like I wanted to reveal Caroline’s secret. But it’s something that had to be done. Besides, if Caroline didn’t want anyone to know that she actually killed herself, why did she leave a note? No, she wanted everyone to know the truth. Maybe she didn’t want her mom to know, but she wanted someone to know. She wanted Ellie to know. She probably wanted Tom to know as well. He’s the one who is largely responsible for her suicide. He was the one who violated her. Killing herself was her way of not dealing with the pain he’d caused her any longer. Fuck, it just breaks my heart that she did this. It also makes me want to kill Tom. Or at the very least, beat the daylights out of him.
It starts to rain. I pull the collar of my jacket tighter around my neck to keep some of the chill away from me. Unfortunately, it does fuck all. Taking a walk in the fresh air seemed like a good idea only ten minutes earlier, but now I willfully regret the decision. As much as I try to put everything that just happened at Ellie’s out of my mind, my thoughts just keep drifting back. How can she not understand? The reason that I talked to the District Attorney is that I didn’t want Caroline’s death to be in vain. I didn’t want an asshole like Tom walking the streets among us. He needs to be punished for what he did. Or at the very least, people need to learn the truth about him. If I just let the letter go and bury it along with Caroline, Tom stays out there in the world, free to do something like this to another woman. No, I couldn’t have that. The main witness against Tom is no longer available to testify against him. So, without the letter, the DA would have no choice but to drop the case. And now? Well, now there’s at least hope.
I walk the last few blocks with my head in the clouds. Everything that made perfect sense just a few hours ago, no longer makes any sense at all. The cold air, which is supposed to clear my head, just makes it all that much worse. I clench my fists. Anger is building up deep within me, the kind that burns slowly, and the kind that I don’t really know how to deal with at all. And the worst thing? It’s directed at Ellie. I’m angry with her. Mostly angry, but also disappointed. Why is she being so obtuse? Is it deliberate? Why can’t she meet me halfway on this? How dare she kick me out? Just as things were starting to look up.
Perhaps I’m not cut out for relationships. Or at least this one. Should things really be this hard? I mean, we haven’t been dating that long. And we’ve already endured all of this drama. No, it’s just too hard.
“Hey!” someone yells as I turn the corner. My building is within view, at the end of the block, and I’m not in the mood to make small talk with some stranger.
“Hey!” the guy says again. Against my better judgement, I turn around. A gale force wind slams into my face. I put my hand up to block some of the wind and rain so I can see who’s trying to get my attention.
“You’re such an asshole, you know that, Aiden?” the guy says, stepping out of the shadow.
“What are you doing here, Blake?” I ask. He takes a step back. His footing is uneasy and he nearly falls, catching himself on the wall.
“Hey!” he says again, slurring his words. As he leans closer to me, a strong odor of alcohol slams into my face.
“Go home. You’re drunk.”
“I will not go…home.”
“Fine,” I say, turning away from him. “I am.”
Just as I’m about to walk away, he grabs my shoulder.
“Where are you going?” he asks. “You think you can get me fired and then…then what? Just go away?”
I shrug him off, but he refuses to let me go. Instead, he grabs me by my neck and presses my face toward his.
“You…got me…fired, you ass…hole,” he mumbles.
I grab his hands and peel him away from me. Once I free my neck, I give him a strong shove. He bounces back a few steps and braces himself against the wall.
“I’m not going to talk about this right now,” I say. “You’re drunk. If you want to discuss this later, give me a call.”
“Fine, I…will,” he says. “Don’t think I won’t.”
This time I don’t wait for him to grab onto me again. I turn up my collar and walk toward my building. Anger, which has been growing within me, bubbles toward the surface. But it’s no longer aimed at Ellie. No, my anger is directed entirely at Blake. Who does he think he is? Why the fuck is he stalking me? Showing up near my house? All the shit that he did to Ellie and to me…and he’s blaming me? All I see is red.
A few minutes later, I get home and pour myself a glass of whiskey. As the dark, soothing liquid runs down my throat, I start to feel a little better. My anger dissipates a little bit and is quickly replaced with just a general feeling of loss and disappointment. There was a time, not that long ago, when Blake was a friend. And not just a friend, a really close friend. My best friend. We have been friends since Yale. He was the one person who was there with me when I started Owl, my company. He was there through its meteoric rise. And yet, he was the one who was la
rgely responsible for my downfall. In fact, he was the instrumental actor who caused my downfall. But why? During all that time that I thought we were close friends, did he secretly hate me?
The intercom rings. When I answer, the doorman says that it’s Blake Garrison here to see me.
“Don’t let him up,” I say. I’m about to hang up, when I hear some commotion on the other end.
“You asshole! You think you can just take my job?” Blake yells into the phone. He must’ve grabbed it away from the doorman. “You’re going to pay for this! You and your slut girlfriend. You’re both going to be sorry when I’m through with you!”
Chapter 1 - Ellie
When my head stops buzzing…
This can’t be real. Pregnant? Me. I look down at the test. This isn’t one of those one line or two line tests. What happens if one of them is faint? No, this test is pretty clear. The words appear in black and white.
Pregnant.
Pregnant!
Fucking pregnant!!!
I can’t breathe. My muscles seize up and no air comes in or out of my throat. A moment later, I start to cough. Little ripples thrust through my whole body, shaking me uncontrollably. Just when I think it’s over with, and I can finally catch my breath, I feel it come on again. The vomit. I lean over the toilet and spit out what is left of my insides.