Mr. Always & Forever

by Ashlee Price

  There was a pause as I tried to collect my thoughts on what bothered me more than anything else. “More than that, you made me fall for you and then I find out it is all lies. I fell in love with a man who doesn’t even exist. That is the worst part of it all.”

  Drake finally moved towards me and grabbed my upper arms, pulling me to him. “It wasn’t all lies. Nothing but the deal was, Erin, and I can change that.”

  “Mary says that you never back out of business.”

  His lips got closer and he shook his head gently. “Business does not matter. I will find somewhere else and I will stick to what I said. This is not a lie.” He put his hand on my chest and I knew that he could feel the pounding of my heart. “This can’t be a lie because every time we are together, mine does the exact same thing.”

  Chapter 5 – Drake

  It took some sweet words and a bit more of my soul than I had wanted to show, but I had gotten Erin back. I needed her in my arms, and once I convinced her of that and showed her, Erin seemed to finally forgive me. I also kept my side of the bargain and let her keep her job and the museum open. It was a great place for the city and it kept her happy. I found out that I would do anything to keep her happy that was in my power to do. She was a simple woman and didn’t want much from me, so I found myself wanting to give her more and surprise her just because I knew that she wasn’t expecting it.

  I also had to get rid of Mary, which wasn’t that much of a loss. She was a good assistant, but she meddled too much and I knew how Erin felt about her. While she would never ask me to fire someone, I saw how happy she was when I told her that I had. It was little looks like that that made me a slave to her. I would have done anything to see her smile.

  To say the feeling was foreign would have been an understatement. I knew that I had never felt this way before. It had really come to a head in my mind when I turned down a beautiful woman who wanted nothing but some innocent pleasure. It was no strings attached and I would have gotten away with it. When I wasn’t even tempted, I knew then that I really loved Erin. I had told her I did, but it took a scenario like that for me to really get it.

  Now I was going to the next level, and I knew that a lot of it had to do with the fact that I couldn’t think about being without her. I didn’t want to go another day without her, so marriage seemed like the next step. It was a mess to think about all of it, though, and as soon as I mentioned it to my family, there was a question of her background and money. They thought that she was some kind of gold-digger, which I found preposterous. I knew that Erin wasn’t worried about money. She never seemed to be, and the simple life she lived was because it suited her.

  But they pressed and threatened my inheritance if I didn’t get a prenuptial agreement out of her. It was the last thing that I wanted to do, but walking away from that kind of money didn’t make sense either, especially if it went to my younger brother, who was an idiot when it came to finances. I didn’t want to see the family legacy go down the drain in Duane’s hands, but I wouldn’t lose Erin over it either. It put me in a strange situation that I didn’t know how to handle, but as I went to pick up Erin for our date that night, I had the papers drawn up and in the center console.

  The museum was quiet, as it had been closed for a couple of hours. Erin was just as bad as me when it came to work, and she had told me that she was going to work late. I knew it was because I had Rose take her out for a long lunch so I could make a closed exhibit ready. But to her it meant that she was behind when she got back. While I hadn’t anticipated her still being there at this time, I should have known that was how she was going to be. Erin was nothing but predictable, and the fact that she was already locked in just proved it. I knew her too well, and it gave me the advantage when I wanted to sneak up on her.

  It had been several months since I kissed her on the counter, and it still held something in my heart when I saw it. My eyes adjusted to the dimmer lighting and I stopped to see if I could hear her working. She had a tendency to sing and hum under her breath when she was there alone. It was something that she wouldn’t do if she knew I was there, but I followed the sweet harmony to the back of the museum by the mineral collections.

  Erin was dusting some of the large gemstones, and my heart lurched in my chest when I saw her. She had her glasses perched on the top of her head and her blonde hair was escaping a bun that she had twisted it up into that morning. I loved watching her get ready because she was so different than anyone else who I’d seen more than once. While other girls would peer closely at the mirror and take what seemed like hours, Erin was done in minutes, in the same unassuming way that she did everything.

  I had noticed that she was wearing tighter clothing now, and I liked to think that was because of me. I wasn’t sure, but I know that it kept me in suffocating need for her all of the time. This moment was no different. I don’t know how long I stood there watching her ass wiggling as she dusted.

  “Drake! You scared me!”

  Her small hand went to her chest, and I couldn’t help the laugh that came out of my mouth. She was adorable when she was scared or angry. I liked everything about her and I don’t know why, but the way she was looking at me then and breathing a little faster was hot. Every time I came into the museum I was turned on almost immediately. When I moved to help her down off of the platform, I pulled her in and rubbed her down my body the last couple of feet of her descent.

  Erin’s smile was arousing to my senses and I leaned into kiss her before I really knew what I was doing. I knew that I wanted her, and I was starting to think that I wasn’t going to make it until after dinner, that I wouldn’t even make it to the car.

  “What has gotten into you, Drake?”

  She was giggling and trying to pull my hands down off of her waist. They were rising to grab the swell of her breasts, and I heard the moan that cemented my purpose there. I was sick of waiting. I needed to feel her right then. When we got around to the front and I saw the information counter, something inside of me pushed her forward and pinned her like before. I knew that I was supposed to ask something, do something else, but all I could think about was being inside of her.

  Checking her, I found that she was dripping wet, so I knew I didn’t have to go slow. She didn’t like it slow anyway, and it seemed like her body was always ready for me. It was hard to ignore that, and before I really knew what I was doing, I had her bent over and my hands were yanking her panties down so that I could have her right then. If any passersby had looked in just a little bit, they would have seen me rutting her from behind, hard. We were both clothed from the waist up, but our bottom halves were bare and writhing in pleasure. Only once did I look up and realize that we were being taped. I didn’t like the idea of others seeing us from the control room, but I knew that I would be there in the morning to get the copy of it.

  I finally had my fill and left her a little weak-kneed. It was not at all what was supposed to happen, but I couldn’t help myself. I helped her pull her hair out of the falling knot on top of her head and a moment of need filled me when I saw it cascading down her back. I moved to kiss her, but Erin pushed me away before I got too heated.

  “I am starving, Drake. You are supposed to take me to dinner, remember?”

  I did. There were a lot of things that I was supposed to do tonight. It was going to be a big night, but my mind was already back in bed with Erin. I was going to have to get myself together or I wasn’t going to make it through. I knew that now, but it was hard to pull my fingers out of her hair and give her a little space so that I didn’t end up taking her again.

  “I know. I’m sorry, Erin. You just look so beautiful.”

  She looked down at her plain dress a little skeptically. “I was going to change first.”

  I told her not to. She didn’t need to wear things that were short and black to get my attention. While I liked the way she looked dolled up a bit, it was moments like this that I loved her more than anything else. She was beautiful, sexy, and
I had to have her forever.

  “You are perfect the way you are.”

  She kind of smiled at me, her way of saying that she was pleased. Erin had never been good with compliments. I had this big idea to ask her when we were out, but this seemed to be the perfect time and place. I knew that she didn’t want to be the center of attention, even though she was, most of the time. I wanted it to be special. Something got ahold of me and I went to my knees in front of her.

  Erin got nervous and tried to pull me up. I think she thought I was going to try to take her another way, and I thought about it, but in the end I wasn’t there for that. Instead I was there to give her something and ask her a question that I never thought I would ask. Before her I would have never even considered getting married, but with her, there was nothing else that made sense.

  “You know I love you, Erin, right?”

  Her blue eyes were watering and her face was getting a little pink. She knew what was happening, and for a moment I wondered if she was going to give me the answer that I wanted. It had never occurred to me that she would say no until that very moment.

  She kind of nodded to the question that didn’t need an answer and waited for the one that did.

  “I don’t want to go on another day without you with me.”

  “I am with you now, Drake. We don’t have to do this.”

  I pushed through and pulled the ring out of my pocket. When she saw it the waterworks really started to come, and I knew that she was going to say yes. “Marry me, Erin, and make me the happiest man in New York.”

  There was no pause, just a nod of her head and a smile. I couldn’t believe it, but she had said yes!

  Chapter 6 – Erin

  Everything was magical. The wedding was like a fairy tale, and I couldn’t ask for a better Prince Charming than Drake. I had to pinch myself a couple of times throughout the day just to make sure that I wasn’t dreaming. Of all of the things that I thought would happen in my life, being with a man like Drake and getting everything that I wanted had never entered into the picture. I knew that there was never going to be more love in me than there was then.

  It all happened in a blur, the ceremony and the reception. We kissed and danced, my mind hard-pressed to keep up with everything. I was still not sure if it was all real, but it started to be real when he took me home and into the bedroom. Now it was all real, and I could feel my body starting to respond. I had been running on need for too long. I needed him, and when he put his hand out to me, my own was shaking slightly as I took it.

  “Now you are my wife.”

  He said it as though he was as shocked as I was about it. The way he looked at me was priceless, and when I was finally pulled into his embrace I knew everything was the way it was supposed to be. His chest was hard against me, and for a time I was just content to stay in his arms. His lips moved down to mine and the trembling stopped. He was the rock that I needed, and I trusted him more than I trusted myself. Drake knew me.

  When he pushed me away so that he could unzip the back of my dress, my hands were shaking. I knew what came next. The night before we had been away from each other. It was the first time since we had been back together that I hadn’t had his touch. My body acted like it was craving him, and when I was bare in front of him, I could barely look at his eyes. I knew what I would find there.

  He covered my body when I lay down, and he was naked above me. I still loved to see the hard ripples in his abs and feel the harder biceps under my fingertips. I couldn’t get over the way he felt above me. He drove me crazy long before he leaned down to kiss me. His body pushed mine into the mattress, and only then was I able to catch my breath.

  His mouth was hungry, moving from my mouth, to my neck and then down the valley in between my breasts. My body started to tense, stomach tightening under his kiss as he moved his way down my body. I knew where he wanted to go, and my thighs pressed together to stop him. I was so turned on that I was already too sensitive to take that kind of thing.

  “Pease, Drake, I can’t.”

  Drake looked up at me for a moment, and when I opened my eyes I could see the need in his own. It was suffocating and intense. His hands went to either side of my thighs and pried them apart. Then he moved his body in between my legs. I knew then that I was not going to be able to tell him no. I never wanted to tell him no again, and it was one of those moments that he wasn’t going to allow it. While Drake was gentle with me most of the time, there was now a look on his face that was a bit much to take. There was no telling him no, and when his head moved down to disappear in between my thighs, it wasn’t long before I was screaming out his name over and over again.

  He knew when the begging was real and when I really couldn’t take anymore. As he smiled down at me, I felt his lips and barely saw him moving down to kiss me. I could feel his need pressing against me, and my own whimper as he entered me ever so slowly. It was like magic to feel him opening me wide and stretching every inch.

  My eyes slammed shut and I couldn’t watch him anymore. All I could do was feel. He was overwhelming me with everything. Each stroke in was like a release of drugs to my brain, and soon I was just as loud as I was before, begging him for more. Then it was enough, too much, and I was exploding underneath him.

  His lips silenced my moans and screams, while his hips pressed deep to fill me with his need. It was hot and burned my insides as my breath tried to slow down. Did he know what he was doing to me? When I finally opened my eyes again, he was still inside of me, staring down at me with a look of love that brought a thickness to my throat.

  “God, I love you, Erin. So much.”

  I just kind of nodded and accepted his lips against mine. My insides clenched him hard and he drove deeper, making me squeal.

  “If you keep doing that, Erin, I will not be able to stop myself.”

  I kind of smiled and squeezed him as hard as I could. He was too much, but I still wanted more. I didn’t have much sense that way when it came to Drake.

  The End for Now

  BILLIONAIRE DESIRETH

  An Alpha Billionaire Romance

  Book 1

  Billionaire Wanteth

  By : Ashlee Price

  Description

  Desiree is ready for a new job. She’s been looking for several months and has finally scored an interview for a promising internship with the city’s most prestigious hedge fund. She knows that securing the internship would put her one step closer to the job of her dreams. After spending so many years in college, Desiree is looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. She is ready for her life to begin.

  When she goes to the interview and finds that she’s just one of hundreds of applicants, Desiree is sure that she has no chance. But her interviewer turns out to be the CEO of the company, and when he tells her that she has the job, Desiree is on top of the world.

  It’s only when he starts to ask her out – alone, without the rest of the interns – that she realizes he wants her. The problem is, Desiree wants him too. But she doesn’t want to jeopardize her new job, and an office affair is the last thing she needs. Desiree has to get her mind off of Greg Jefferson before she loses herself and puts her new life at risk.

  Chapter 1 – Desiree

  “It’s going to be okay. You worry too much.”

  “I hope you’re right. I don’t know what I’m going to do if I don’t get this internship. There is nowhere that will even hire me without some type of work experience.”

  “I told you last semester to do that work program for Calley’s.”

  I nodded in agreement. While Fran had tried to convince me that it would be great on my resume, I hadn’t been thinking about that. All I’d been thinking about was getting the summer off. It was the one time that I didn’t want to worry about classes or financial aid or any of the stress of the rest of the year. Now I was kind of kicking myself for it. I should have listened.

  “You were right.”

  She looked at me a lit
tle shocked. If she had known how many people I had talked to about a job and how many of them told me they would hire me when I got some experience, she wouldn’t have been. Fran had been right, and I now wished I would have listened.

  “I can’t believe you just agreed with me.”

  “Don’t get used to it, but I can admit when I’m wrong. I was definitely wrong about that. I don’t know what I was thinking.”

  I really didn’t. It had been almost three months since I had graduated, and I was starting to get the feeling that I had missed out on some sort of advice that everyone else knew.

  “You will find something.”

  I smiled back at her. Fran’s gloating was over, and I was thankful that she was not that kind of person. She had been right more than once in the years I had known her since we started middle school together.

  “You’re just worried I won’t be able to pay rent.”

  “It’s due.”

  Sighing to myself, I looked back at my reflection and tried to convince myself that today was the day that everything was going to change. I might have talked brave, and I would never admit the fear I had inside, but it didn’t stop me from feeling like this was the last chance. If I didn’t get into the accounting internship program at Jefferson & Marshal, I had a feeling that I was going to have to take a bookkeeping job that paid less than the bar job I had now.

  “So how do I look?”

  “I would hire you, especially if I didn’t have to pay you any money.”

  “It’s only for six weeks, unpaid.”

  “That’s if you get the job.”

  I gave her a look. I didn’t want to be reminded of the chances of getting a job from the internship. It wasn’t guaranteed, but I had to believe my luck would change if I could just get my foot in the door.

  “I have some faith. If not, I got a couple of shifts this weekend that will take care of the rent.”