King (Rogue Rebels MC)

by Nicole Elliot

  Ava continued on with my sales pitch: “Not only is she beautiful, but she is teacher. We have a civil servant up here, ladies and gentlemen!”

  Ava tapped her temple with a finger, which was either meant to say she’s smart or she’s nuts. Probably a little of both, because the crowd laughed.

  The bidding began. The starting bid was two thousand, as I’d expected, but it progressed very quickly.

  “Three thou– Five thousand! Seven thousand!”

  But I barely heard it. I searched the crowd again until I found him. He was in the third row now, staring at me and trying to get a look at the bidders. At first, bids were coming from all over the place, forcing Ava to move around.

  “Ten thousand! I hear twelve thousand!”

  But as it went on, there were just five distinct bidders left, then four, and then three.

  Finally Owen entered the bidding.

  “Twenty thousand!”

  But a few other men wouldn’t let it go.

  “Twenty-five! Twenty-six!”

  The bidders were going back and forth, and the crowd was turning their heads left and right, as if they were watching a tennis match.

  “Twenty-eight!”

  My heart was racing. I found him and stared at him, but he was only smiling. Owen waited for the right time to make a move, I could see it. It wasn’t an evil smile, but rather a cocky one. I couldn’t blame him. There was that playfulness between us again. He was teasing me.

  Bastard.

  Two bidders got a little too into the farce, upping each other by $500, just to see the crowd react. It was becoming less and less funny.

  “Thirty-two thousand five hundred!”

  Owen raised his hand again, calmly like this was all an easy game to win.

  “Fifty thousand.”

  And older man kept his paddle in the air. “I’ll match whatever you say.”

  I was beginning to sweat under the lights. The fun game had turned into torture. What if that old geezer won me? Owen must have seen my distress, because the next time our eyes met, he gave me a nod.

  Even Ava couldn’t take it anymore. “Gentlemen, perhaps you should stop bidding and go home together?”

  The crowd cheered, but not for long. I saw Owen make his way to the stage.

  “Sir, would you like to say something?”

  He reached out his hand, and Ava obediently handed him the microphone. He cleared my throat and said, “Two hundred and fifty thousand! Match that.”

  Everyone in the room, including myself, inhaled in a collective breath. The silence hung for what felt like several minutes, with people exchanging both puzzled and amazed looks. For a minute I thought that I had misheard him.

  When he returned the microphone, Ava said, “Sir, could you confirm the number for me, please? Was it two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?”

  He gave her a confident nod, and looked at me with a cocky smirk on his face.

  It took a moment for me to get back in touch with reality, and when I did, I found myself next to Ava, still alone on the stage.

  “Sir, would you like to counter?”

  The older man dropped his paddle and shook his head.

  “Excellent. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars! Sold!” Ava lifted my hand in the air, as if I’d won a boxing match. “Please, Miss Mercer, you may join your date!”

  Chapter 8

  Owen

  I had to have her, to save her.

  Two hundred and fifty thousand was nothing. I got my picture, and the girl.

  As I walked towards the corner of the stage where I would retrieve Sydney, I nodded to the darkest booth, knowing the District Attorney saw the trick I just pulled.

  It screamed, I have money damn’t, don’t mess with me.

  Just let him try to come after my business now.

  I gave Sydney my hand and helped her off the stage.

  “I don’t know what to say,” she said into my ear. “Thank you doesn’t sound like nearly enough. You have no idea what you have done for me! How can I ever repay you? What can I do?”

  In truth, it was enough for me to see her this happy. But that’s not how the Club worked, or business for that matter.

  “I’ll call on you when I need you. For tonight, let’s just get you home.”

  I took her hand and pulled her through the crowd trying to decide how best I could use her to my advantage. She was beautiful, and I wanted to have her, but I needed to get in touch with Baxter first.

  Business, then pleasure.

  I wasn’t surprised to see Lawson near the door, waiting for his part of whatever deal he thought we were doing. But I wouldn’t share the photo with Lawson.

  “Owen, my friend. Now, this is the Owen I know and love! I knew you would get involved.”

  I could only stand there and take it. I didn’t mind. Lawson no longer concerned me, at least not for a while. I was using this time to think.

  What to do with the gorgeous blonde… what to do.

  “Tell me, what’s so special about that girl? Maybe next time I’ll take part in the auction myself.”

  “You think you can outbid me?”

  “Oh, no way, I’m just messing with you, buddy. Like I said, I don’t want to fight with you, I want us to help each other.”

  “But do I want to do business with you?” I asked.

  “In a way, you already have, Owen, isn’t that so?”

  I eyed him carefully, I didn’t want Sydney involved in any of this.

  “I got what we wanted, now I’m taking the girl home. Understood?”

  He nodded and let me pass.

  When we got outside Sydney looked me over. “What was that about?”

  “Nothing.”

  “That’s what people say when there’s something going on. Usually something terrible.”

  “Not for you, Sydney.”

  She raised an eyebrow at me, but seemed to accept my response.

  “So where to?”

  She smiled, genuine and beautifully. “Anywhere but here.”

  “Done.”

  Chapter 9

  Sydney

  Standing outside the bar waiting for Owen’s driver, we stood silently next to one another.

  I was confused. On the one hand, I wanted Owen to like me and to want to take me back to his place. I felt our connection, and thought he felt it as well. But at the same time, he had just bought me at an auction! I still couldn’t quite comprehend that this had really happened, and still had my doubts about the whole affair.

  I felt like I owed him, and that maybe this passion I felt for him was just that. But I trusted him. Out of everyone I had met that night, Owen had been the only one to grab my attention. He was funny, charming, and open with me. Not to mention insanely rich and willing to pay huge money just to spend a night with me.

  Was that fair? Or were my feelings misguided? I told myself it was part of the game – an innocent exchange. Only we were no longer in the comfort of the luxury club. Standing in the street at night felt awfully close to reality, and it was not as pretty.

  But one thing I knew for sure was that from the moment he blocked my view on the stage and our eyes met for the first time, there had been electricity between us. It was like nothing I had ever felt for any other man.

  I wanted to be with him; to get to know him better than anyone. I wanted to sleep with him. What I wouldn’t give for a night with this man…

  Owen’s driver finally arrived, double-parking the town car and stepping out to open the door for us.

  “Sorry it took me so long,” he said.

  Owen didn’t reply, just helped me get inside, and then sat next to me. The driver shut the door and went around the car and back behind the wheel.

  The cabin smelled strongly of new leather. I took a deep breath and exhaled. Holy shit this was a nice car. “Is this yours?”

  “Nice, isn’t it?”

  We sat in silence for a moment as the car sped up.

 
“This was something, huh?” Owen said. “I’ve never been to an auction before. It’s…”

  “Wrong?” I offered.

  “In a sense. It’s just an odd practice. Legal prostitution.”

  “Is that what this is?”

  He moved closer to me. “It can be whatever you want it to be. I did pay for you after all.”

  I couldn’t breathe. Yes he had paid for my company. Was this what he wanted? Me?

  I wanted him, that was for sure.

  He dragged his finger along my leg and let his eyes lock with mine. “Do you want to go home?”

  “No,” I admitted honestly. He sent a text on his phone and I wondered what was so pressing that he needed to do so at that moment.

  Then he sent another, a smirk crossing his face.

  “Okay then, are you hungry?”

  For so much. “Yes.”

  “Perfect, there will be food…” he said mysteriously, his lips parting in a smile, showing his white teeth.

  I played along. “Owen, where are we going?”

  I turned to look out the window and realized we were driving away from Chicago, heading northwest. Of course, there were many potential destinations in that direction, but I could think of only one that would be crazy enough for Owen to have picked.

  We were heading for O’Hare International Airport.

  I swallowed hard. I had been ready to go to a restaurant or a late showing of a movie, but flying somewhere? That was something else, and I wasn’t sure I was onboard with that.

  But I was excited too. It would be the adventure I had always dreamed of – to be swept off my feet by a prince and fly to Europe or Asia, somewhere so far away that no problems at home could ever catch up to me. Somewhere I could take a break from bills and playing nurse. It had been so long.

  “I’m not telling.”

  “So, it’s a surprise?”

  “As a matter of fact, it is a surprise. Where would you like to go?”

  I considered it. I had been to France and some neighboring countries during my gap year in college, and they all looked about the same to me, beautiful old ruins. I would’ve liked to go somewhere warm, where we could spend our days on the beach or by the pool, eating fruits and drinking wine all day. Maybe we could rent a convertible and cruise along the coastline, the ones shown in TV commercials. People in those shows always looked happy. But that didn’t really matter. I knew I would go anywhere with him.

  Which was crazy.

  Instead of a reply, I asked, “Where would you like to go, Owen?”

  He took no time to think. “Away. I want to just leave and never come back to this… life.”

  “I wish I could do that. I have family to look after.”

  “Of course,” he agreed. “You’ll have to introduce us sometime.”

  “Sometime, I will.” Would I? What the hell would Declan say? “What’s stopping you? From leaving, I mean.”

  “Work, mostly, but let’s not bring that up. If I can escape even for a few days, I’ll take it. And you’re off right? For summer?”

  I wasn’t going to tell him about my crap job at the supermarket, that I was using to pay Declan’s bills. He would be okay for a few days, I needed a break.

  I took out my phone and sent out several texts. One was to Julia, telling her that the date night went well, and I would be out of town for a few days. The other one was to my brother, with a similar message, minus the details. And the third one was to my job, calling in sick. Given how many extra hours I had worked, they wouldn’t mind too much. Last time I had checked, I was the most productive person at that place.

  “Yes,” I said. “It’s all taken care of, but I don’t have clothes or anything.”

  “Where we’re going, you won’t need them.” Warmth crept up my cheeks before he added. “Anything you can’t live without we’ll buy.”

  Of course, he would buy it, he had just paid two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to whisk me away.

  Would Declan have approved? Never. My younger brother had always been my defender. He wouldn’t let any man close to me until he had gotten to know them. But I was no longer a little girl, and we no longer had a plethora of options. Some compromises had to be made. The same way I had made the leap of faith by going to the auction, Declan would have to accept that I’d done it for him - if he ever found out.

  And that was big if.

  I was doing this for the family. Had already done it, for that matter. The money would start flowing into my account in equal amounts over the period a couple weeks, which would easily pay off Declan’s treatment bills.

  We arrived at the airport after midnight, but the driver didn’t take us to any of the major airlines terminals. Instead, we bypassed them altogether, driving along the tall wire fence until we reached a security checkpoint.

  I didn’t understand at first, but as Owen spoke to the officer, I got it. They were heading straight to Owen’s plane, which he kept in a private hangar at O’Hare. The officer had no further questions.

  We arrived at the hangar and boarded a small private jet. It was a beautiful navy-blue color and white on the inside. I could hardly believe what was happening to me.

  Owen sat down in a far seat and instructed a stewardess to leave us alone for the flight.

  “What if we need something?”

  “I only need you.”

  As I felt the rumble of the plane beginning to take off, he pulled me onto his lap.

  Chapter 10

  Sydney

  “I’m sorry, what?”

  “I bought you, and unless you protest, I’d like to see what I paid for. All of it.” His eyes traveled up and down my body.

  Oh. My. God. I

  Sex wasn’t a must, it wasn’t supposed to be. But what if I wanted it to? Sex with a millionaire, practically a stranger. No strings attached. It made it that much more exciting.

  “And if I do, protest that is.”

  “We won’t take off, I’ll let you go home, end of arrangement.”

  I looked into his steely blue eyes. Who was I kidding? I was in a private plane with a sexy millionaire going to some undisclosed location. And he was right, he paid for me. In a way that turned me on even more.

  To hell with that. I needed a release, and Owen was the perfect kind.

  “I don’t want this to end,” I admitted as I kicked off my shoes and stood.

  My hands trailed down my body, the dress hugging every curve.

  “So gorgeous.” He stood up unzippered my dress, slowly pulling it off of me. Then he turned me around, his fingertips playing on my skin.

  I couldn’t believe I was doing this! But I didn’t care.

  It just felt so good.

  He stopped for a moment to take my whole body in, drinking in every line and curve of it, and I felt sexier than ever. I took my breast in one hand and stroked it slowly as I gauged his reaction.

  “Jesus,” he gritted out and fisted his hands, his chest rising and falling rapidly. “You’re such a tease.”

  I lowered my other hand and pressed it against my swollen mound, moving my fingers all over my clit.

  “Sydney.” He growled and pushed me onto a chair. “Touch yourself, baby. I want to see you come.”

  “Owen...” I moaned, surprised and delighted with his request.

  He removed all his clothes and sat in one of the chairs, his eyes following me closely. I came to the edge and separated my legs, massaging my pussy.

  “Put your heels on the edge and separate your legs wider.”

  I did what he’d told me to do, completely exposing my mound to him. I watched him as I rubbed my clit, building tension in me quickly, and moaned when the pleasure grew stronger. He was jerking his cock, his eyes glued to my pussy, and it was too sexy masturbating like this for him. My heart was thumping loud in my ears, and blood rushed through my veins when the pressure started approaching its bursting point.

  “Put your fingers inside your tight pussy and fuck yours
elf.”

  “Ah...”

  I writhed on the oversized chair, quick to obey him. When I inserted two digits into my dripping wet passage, I convulsed hard around them, my walls embracing my fingers greedily. I was so hungry for this intrusion, increasing my speed as the juices gushed out of me.

  He was jerking fast, our moans traveling through the air as one, and I was about to come so hard.

  “I’m coming, Owen.”

  He stood up and crossed the room in two strides, kneeling in between my legs. I came with a scream, and my juices overflew from me. He lowered his head just as I took my fingers out, convulsing hard when the intense pleasure swallowed me, and started collecting my juices with his tongue.

  “Owen!” I cried out, feeling too sensitive, but he didn’t move away. Instead, he latched onto my pulsating flesh, licking it like he was starving. “Owen! No...” I tried to move his head away, but he grabbed my hands and pressed them against the chair, continuing to pleasure me.

  Soon all discomfort turned into ecstasy, increasing with each flick of his tongue, and when he sucked my clit into his warm mouth, I was in heaven. I let him eat me out, burning from the new-found pleasure.

  He was rough, bringing me to the edge with the quick work of his tongue and mouth. I soaked his whole face, my wetness constantly leaking out, and the pleasure became too much. It had been too long since I had sex like this. Though I couldn’t remember a time I had ever touched myself in front of someone else.

  “Ah! Owen! I’ll come! Yes! Please, don’t stop!” I pressed my pussy against his face, grinding like crazy, and just several seconds separated me from a huge orgasm... “Just like that... Yes!”

  I screamed and thrashed against the chair, my body filling with the most delicious pleasure that overcame all my senses.

  “Damn. You’re so wet. So perfect.”

  He grabbed a condom out of his wallet and put it on him, already back in between my legs. He grabbed my ass and pulled it closer to the edge, and I placed my feet on the carpet. He stroked my mound with the head of his engorged cock, and it was too good. I needed him inside of me.