The Proposal (A Billionaire Romance)

by Nikki Wild

  “You know me a little too well Margie. Plus you’ve known Shane a long time. That’s why I called you. So how can I possibly I go along with a deal like that?”

  “What is your biggest fear, regarding the agreement Danielle?”

  Dani had to stop and think about that question. The deal was so unorthodox, everything about it was unsettling. Finally she whittled it down.

  “I’m afraid the money involved will change who I am. I guess that scares me the most. And I’m also afraid that if I don’t take the phony marriage deal he’ll just offer it to someone else who will. He can easily find a woman who’s more Hawaiian than I am. And what woman want to have HIS baby?”

  Margie couldn’t help but snicker at Dani’s fear of replacement.

  “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh but please take my word for it, Shane has no intentions of making that offer to anybody other than you. If you don’t take it that’s all there is. There is no deal without you.”

  “What makes you so sure? Did he say that Margie?”

  “Not in so many words. Shane likes to talk tough but make no mistake about it Danielle, when it comes to you he has way more than business on his mind and it’s not phony. Unfortunately, in order to maintain his confidence that’s all that I can say about that. But you should feel secure in knowing you are not replaceable in this proposal. It’s you or no one. You’re the only one he trusts to help him.”

  “Wow. That’s a lot for me to process at the moment. I guess you know what you’re talking about. What about my other fear though? The fear of Shane’s money influencing and changing who I am?”

  “Well I’d say you have that wrong as well. You’re looking at it from the totally wrong perspective. Don’t you think it’s possible that the opposite could be true? That you would be the one influencing him and changing him? You would be in the perfect position do exactly that. If you ask me Danielle, these beautiful islands will do nothing but reap the benefits of your influence over Shane Tanner.”

  Danielle sat in stunned silence. None of what Margie said had occurred to her. She hadn’t looked at it from that angle at all. Before ending the call they both agreed that their conversation should remain a secret between just the two of them. Dani thanked her older friend for the profound words of wisdom and then got ready for bed.

  The advice she had gleaned from her three helpful buddies had certainly shed new light on the situation. Their words played over and over in her head forcing her to reconsider the unusual arrangement and causing her to toss and turn for much of the night. Could she actually agree to Shane’s outlandish proposal? She would be Mrs. Shane Tanner. Dani thought of all the ways she could influence him and help the islands. Was it really possible? And what about having a child? Was she really ready to be a mother?

  Eventually she dozed off and dreamed that Shane had chained her to his desk and forced her to lie to everyone while her nose grew as long as Pinocchio’s. But then the scene switched to Shane being chained to her desk while colorful coral sprouted wildly from out of his suit jacket. The dream ended with Auntie May coming in dressed as a nurse and holding their baby, which was actually just a giant bag of cash swaddled in a blanket.

  Upon awakening, Danielle remained in bed for a few minutes trying to recall the details of the silliness her brain had conjured up during her slumber. In the end it really wasn’t important. She had already made up her mind. The answer was suddenly crystal clear. Despite it being only four o’clock in the morning, she decided to give Shane Tanner an early wake-up call.

  Sixteen

  Thirty minutes later Shane was on Danielle’s front porch ringing her doorbell. On the phone she had told him she had come to a decision about his proposal but wanted to discuss it with him in person. That was enough to send him flying over to her house in the wee hours of the morning.

  Dani opened the door and stared at him for an inordinately long time before speaking.

  “What’s the matter?” he asked. “You look like you’ve seen a ghost. Aren’t you gonna invite me in?”

  She apologized and let him in but continued her blatant ogling.

  “What are you looking at Danielle? Is my dick hanging out or something?” He said as he checked his fly.

  “No. It’s just that I haven’t seen you dressed in board shorts and a muscle shirt since……that summer. It’s weird seeing you with your hair all messed up and needing a shave.” She had forgotten how incredibly sexy he looked in beach clothes and wanted nothing more than to strip him down and throw herself against his rippled flesh.

  “Well excuse me for not wanting to put on a monkey suit this early on a Sunday. You’re not exactly dressed for a coronation either you know. But I do like that little silk robe you got there.…...and what’s under it looks even better.” He lifted up her hem a couple of inches and peeked underneath.

  “I’m not complaining at all Shane. Quite the contrary actually. The scruffy surfer look looks great on you. It just triggered some very lovely memories that’s all. Want some coffee?” Danielle headed for the kitchen.

  “Definitely. Can I help?” Shane followed closely behind her. “I like your house by the way.”

  “Oh come on Shane. It’s probably like an old shack to you.”

  “Not at all Danielle. It’s great. It’s totally you; very warm and charming. That’s what I love most about it.”

  They each pulled up a chair in the cozy breakfast nook and sat down with their steaming mugs of coffee. Shane was dying to know what Dani had decided but he was determined to let her bring up the subject on her own terms when she was ready. Fortunately he didn’t have to wait long.

  “Well I thought about your business proposal,” she began. “All night in fact. And believe me it was one of the hardest decisions I ever made……but I decided to do it.”

  Shane let out a sigh of relief. Her answer came as a complete surprise to him because she had been so adamantly opposed to it the day before. Still he held out hope for a change of heart and to his delight he got one.

  “You won’t regret it Danielle, I promise. I know the whole thing seems extremely unconventional but a lot of very successful deals are like that. Trust me, it’s all going to work out great. I’ll have the contract drawn up first thing tomorrow.”

  “Shane I do have a couple of stipulations of my own before you draw up the papers and they’re not negotiable.” Dani said authoritatively. Then after pausing briefly for dramatic effect she continued. “First of all, I absolutely have to draw the line on lying. I will not use my position as marketing director to flat-out lie. And second, I determine the date for ditching my birth control.”

  Shane could tell Danielle was absolutely steadfast about her conditions but he couldn’t really bring himself to take her seriously. He thought it was amusing that she was trying to exercise that level of power over him but figured it was simply best to humor her. He also found it to be an extreme turn-on and started picturing her as a dominatrix handcuffing him to the headboard.

  “Hey I’m always willing to surrender to the demands of a strong sexy woman anytime,” he said as he kissed her longingly on the lips. “In fact it’s one of my very favorite things. There’s absolutely nothing more sexually exciting to me than a woman who drives a hard bargain. Speaking of hard, Danielle I am so fucking hard for you right now.”

  Shane grabbed Dani by the wrist and pulled her hand under the table onto his obviously erect cock. Danielle closed her eyes and purred as she massaged the full length of it in her palm. She wanted it inside her in every way possible and as soon as possible.

  Shane rose up suddenly from the table and practically yanked Dani’s chair out from underneath her before scooping her up in his arms and carrying her to the bedroom.

  “Did I hear you say you enjoyed giving into the demands of a strong woman Mr. Tanner?” Dani laughed as she pushed him down onto her bed.

  “Yes I did say that Ms. Kane. Do you have more demands you’d like to tell me about?”


  Danielle peeled Shane’s sleeveless t-shirt off and lustfully ran her fingertips down his biceps. Then she undid his shorts, sliding them down over his giant rock hard dick and onto the floor. She couldn’t wait to pleasure him before feeling him inside her. In fun, she continued on with her mock business role play.

  “This deal has several conditions, the first of which you’ve already met,” she said as she stroked his throbbing shaft. “Secondly you must agree to fuck me until I cry for mercy…. and last but not least we must come together in full mutual agreement.”

  “I find those terms acceptable Ms. Kane. Where do I sign?” laughed Shane.

  Then he forcefully kissed Dani’s waiting mouth as he slipped off her robe and fondled her beautiful aroused breasts. Danielle slowly dropped to her knees on the floor in front of him as he reclined back into the bed on his elbows. She smiled up at him like a naughty little girl and softly moistened her pouty pink lips with her tongue. Shane stroked his cock to signal his desire for her hot mouth.

  Dani kissed the enormous head of his impressive muscle before sliding her warm lips down over it. Then she licked and sucked his dick like it was an ice cream cone melting in the sun. Her sensual tongue flicked and swirled and lapped its way down to the base while she worked his balls in the palm of her hand. Shane had forgotten just how orally talented Danielle was. She literally curled his toes as she relished his cock in her mouth, working the length of it in and out with gusto.

  “Oh yeah…..Danielle I knew you had a persuasive tongue but…….Fuck. Don’t stop…..I’m almost there. Fuck you’re awesome honey.”

  Shane’s command caused her to quicken her strokes as she gripped his loins tightly, but in the final moments he changed course and decided he wanted to come in her sweet pussy instead of her mouth. He signaled her to release him and pulled her up onto the bed with him. Then he rolled her over and positioned her onto her knees with her glorious gorgeous ass tilted upward in front of him. Shane primed her waiting slit with his tongue and spread her wet pink lips with his fingers before entering her from behind with his magnificent member.

  “Oh god I want your cock Shane! Fuck me hard!”

  Shane took Danielle’s demands seriously as promised and started plowing her hard and deep. He was also determined to fuck her until she cried for mercy, exactly like she stipulated. It didn’t take long for that to happen, once he went full force with his thrusting hips. As his climax built and he started expanding inside of her, Danielle begged for mercy and pleaded for him to come at her peak moment, which he did as per their mutual agreement.

  Dani collapsed with exhaustion beneath her lover and new business partner. Shane pulled her trembling body into his own, spooning her from behind and cupping her heaving breasts in his hands. He brushed her damp hair aside and gently kissed her cool moist skin on the nape of her neck.

  “You definitely know how to drive a hard bargain woman. I think you and I are going to make an awesome fucking team don’t you?”

  Danielle answered “I do Shane. I really do.”

  Seventeen

  The new formidable team of Tanner and Kane spent most of that morning engaged in hot raucous sex before showering and having a breakfast of tropical fruits and French toast. Shane wished he would have remembered to bring a change of clothes with him but he hadn’t. And Margie wasn’t answering her phone so he had no choice but to make a trip back to his suite at the Kai.

  He had scheduled a meeting with a real estate agent for later that day who was going to show him some rental houses and he wanted to look respectable. It was his imminent plan to vacate the penthouse suite so it would be available to actual hotel guests again. He had had no problem getting Margie to agree to the move as well. “Hey I’ll go anywhere on this island you want me to boss,” was her enthusiastic reply.

  Danielle strolled down her garden pathway with Shane toward his car parked at the curb. They didn’t initially see Auntie May in the corner of her front yard watering her petunias, but she saw them. Spying at the amorous couple from behind her magnolia tree, she watched them kiss and grope each other unashamedly in public. She could hear them excitedly making plans for their first public date that evening and wondered where the obviously filthy-rich man was planning to take her lovely next-door neighbor. May cringed when she overheard him telling her “And please forego all undergarments.”

  The sudden loud barking of May’s Great Dane Daisy finally alerted Shane and Dani to Auntie May’s presence. Then the huge dog’s head came peering over the wire fence, drooling on the succulent plants below him in Danielle’s yard.

  “Hello Daisy,” Dani said as she rubbed the giant face. “Good-morning Auntie May!” she shouted across the yard. She and Shane both smiled and waved at her.

  “Holy shit is that dog’s collar for real?” Shane asked in disbelief.

  “Yep. Real turquoise and silver. It’s massive isn’t it? A family friend of May’s custom made it especially for Daisy.”

  “That’s crazy. Someone’s bound to steal it,” he said matter of factly. “Shall I see you at seven then?”

  Danielle laughed, “This is Maui not Los Angeles silly. Daisy’s been wearing that collar for over five years now with no problems whatsoever. Seven o’clock is fine……oh and good luck house hunting.”

  They gave each other a final quick kiss and Shane drove off through the quiet little neighborhood. On the way to his meeting he pondered the fact that the dog could safely wander around for years wearing an expensive conspicuous piece of jewelry like that. Maui seemed like a strange place out of the past to him. But he decided not strange enough for him to meet the real estate agent dressed like a beach bum. Danielle might be fond of surfer chic but in the business world nothing beat an expensive power suit.

  As Dani headed back up her walkway, Auntie May lightly sprayed her over the fence with the garden hose.

  “Hey crazy lady, what’s that about? I already had a shower this morning.” Danielle shook out her hair like a wet dog.

  May turned off the water and entered Dani’s yard through their shared garden gate.

  “I just wanted to shoot the breeze with you for a minute. We didn’t get a chance to talk much yesterday once Mr. Moneybags arrived.” May crinkled up her nose like she smelled rotten food.

  “So I take it that face means you don’t like him? Why don’t you like him?” Dani was disappointed but not mad.

  “I have a very bad feeling about that man. I think any Hawaiian who knows he’s Shane Tanner the billionaire probably feels the same way. I Googled him yesterday and found out a lot of unsavory things about him and his company and I just think you need to be very careful Danielle. That guy is quite a player and I don’t want to see you get hurt.” Auntie May kissed Dani’s forehead and smiled.

  “I appreciate your concern and all May but he’s really not the bad villain people make him out to be. And you gotta admit he is one fine hunk of man, isn’t he?”

  “Dani, nobody’s telling you not to have fun with him. He makes a fine boy toy. But do not give your heart that man because he is sure to break it and hand it back to you on a solid gold platter.”

  Danielle thought it best not to share the fact that Shane had indeed already done that to her once in her life. Some things were just better left unsaid when it came to well-meaning friends.

  At seven o’clock on the nose Shane pulled up in front of Danielle’s house for the second time that day. However the vision he saw when he opened the door this time was quite different from earlier in the day. He’d never seen Danielle look more stunning. The gold silk dress she was wearing looked like shimmering liquid running down her body and he wanted a long drink of it. He stood there with his eyes transfixed on her overwhelming beauty.

  He handed her the large bouquet of red roses he was carrying and kissed her tenderly on the lips. Dani had gotten used to seeing him well-dressed at work every day and she was well aware of his impressive wardrobe, but she had to admit he had truly outdone hims
elf that evening. She had literally never seen a more drop-dead dreamy man in her life and she couldn’t wait to be publicly seen on his arm.

  As they started to leave the house Shane hugged her waist from behind and nibbled down the side of her neck. “You know we could always just skip dinner and go straight to the dessert?” he said only half joking.

  “I’ll admit that’s a pretty tempting offer but I thought the whole point was for us to be a couple in public?”

  Shane had to admit Dani was right so they headed out for the evening. Danielle giggled with excitement as she slid into Shane’s Aston Martin again. The drive along the spectacular Maui coastline in the sexy sports car felt wildly carefree and adventurous.

  “Why don’t we put the top down? There’s a full moon tonight Shane.”

  “I was leaving it up for you. There’ll be some paparazzi at the restaurant and I thought you wouldn’t want your hair to be all windblown.”

  Shane explained further how Ms. Grummond had already set the wheels in motion for their planned publicity. That afternoon she had anonymously contacted local and mainland news outlets with “inside information” on the famous billionaire’s evening plans.

  “Newspaper pictures? You’re right, I do not want messed up hair. Where are we going to dinner anyway? I assumed someplace posh but you never said.”

  “Islandia. It has an outstanding reputation. I heard it’s the best restaurant on Maui. Have you eaten there?”

  “Islandia? Are you kidding? Of course not. I can’t afford to spend a week’s salary on dinner. Plus it’s nearly impossible to get a reservation…… But I guess not for you though.”

  “Of course not. They know if I dine there it’s free publicity for them. Which is exactly what we want this evening.” Shane reached over and slid his hand up Dani’s thigh.

  “Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about….” His fingertips searched in vain for her panties. She had left them home like Shane requested. “Good girl.”