“Do you need mine?” I ask.
“Actually, Lizbeth already gave it to me. She had it on the paperwork you filled out for the auction.”
I don’t know what to say, so I kiss him again. He reciprocates in kind.
“By the way, my name is Aiden,” he whispers into my ear after he pulls away. “Aiden Black.”
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?
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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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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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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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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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“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 beautif
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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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“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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Chapter 1 - Ellie
When I get ready…
The idea of going to the Caribbean isn’t anything that is well-planned. But I’ve had a lot of planning for a while. It’s just something that he proposed we do and the next thing I know, we’re taking off.
“So, you’re leaving? Just like that?” Caroline asks. I nod as I pack my bag. I don’t really know what to bring. All of my summer clothes are packed away in the back of my closet and I’m struggling to get them out.
Caroline is pretty much up to date on everything that has been going on. Our failed engagement. The Page Six article that revealed me as a romance writer, and the yacht auction where I met and started dating Aiden Black. His firing as CEO of Owl.
“I promise that I will be back soon,” I say. We still haven’t talked much about what happened to her in Maine. All I know is that Tom was arrested and charged with rape and assault and he’s awaiting trial. She will be the star witness against him. I am also expected to testify, since he attacked me as well. But I haven’t heard anything from the District Attorney, or her attorney, about any of this.
“I’m going to have my cell phone with me. And I will have email as well. That way, if anything happens with the case, I will be available. I’ll take the first flight out.”
Caroline looks away. She hates talking about this, but we have to. I need her to know that I’m going to be there for her, no matter what.
“This whole thing…it’s just a bit much to deal with,” Caroline says. Suddenly, something occurs to me. Perhaps she wants me to stay. Maybe she needs me more than I thought she did.
“Do you want me to cancel the trip?” I ask.
Caroline shakes her head. “Don’t be silly.”
“It’s not silly. It’s no problem. I mean, I’ll stay if you want me to.”
Caroline just shrugs her shoulders and looks away. “I’m going to be fine. I’m just worrying about this for nothing. The trial isn’t for another month probably, who the hell knows. You should go and have fun.”
“And what are you going to do?” I ask.
“Talk to my therapist. Go to work.”
I’m glad that she has started to see someone about this. I’ve been asking her to go for some time, but she kept resisting.
“Go out maybe?” I ask. I know Caroline won’t be back to being her old self unless she starts to go out again and have fun.
“Yeah, maybe.” She shrugs. Okay, maybe that was wishful thinking. For now, I should be happy that she’s just going out to work and to the therapist.
“Is the shrink helping?” I ask. When she went to her first session, she refused to talk about it except to say that it went fine. I’m hoping to get a little bit more info about it now that some time has passed.
“She said it’s going to be an uphill climb to get over it, but it’s going to be okay in the end.”
I nod.
“I just don’t think I have the energy, Ellie. I just feel so tired all the time.”
I nod and put my arm around her.
“I’m really, really sorry, Ellie. I just wish there were something I could do.”
“You can.”
“What?”
“I want you to testify against him. No matter what.”
“Yes, of course, I will. Caroline, just because I’m going on this trip doesn’t mean that I’m not going to testify. The minute that your lawyer or the DA need me, I’m there.”
“Okay, that’s good,” Caroline says, wiping the outside of her eye. Is she crying? Why would she think that I wouldn’t testify on her behalf? My mind spins a mile a minute.
“I love you,” I say and wrap my arms around her.
“I love you, too.”
I finish packing the rest of the time alone. Caroline says that she’s tired and goes to her room to lie down. She just woke up an hour ago, but she doesn’t have much energy these days. I again deliberate whether it’s such a good idea for me to leave her alone at this point. But when I voice my concerns out loud, she says that she’s planning on going to visit her family for a few days. So, there’s no need for me to hang around anyway. No one will be here.
With great effort, I manage to retrieve my large box of summer clothes from the back of my closet, I look through the contents and pick out a few tank tops and shorts that I think will work well in the Caribbean. I also try on every swimsuit I own and I’m disappointed to find that they, unfortunately, do not fit as well as they did last summer. Damn the sugar and carbs that were too hard to resist in the long dark days without Aiden. I decide to not give them any more thought and just toss them into my suitcase. I’m not going to let the fact that I look (or maybe just feel) fat prevent me from taking the trip of a lifetime with the man of my dreams.
Speaking of which, I still don’t exactly know where the hell we are really headed. When I agreed to go, I said yes to the Caribbean. But the Caribbean has hundreds of islands and at least half a dozen different countries. The precise location of where we are headed is still unknown.
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Where exactly are we headed? I text Aiden.
The Caribbean, he texts back.
Yes, but where?
It’s a surprise. I’ll pick you up at seven.
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I smile and return to my suitcase. At first, I was thinking that a carry-on would be enough, but after going back and forth between all of my blouses and different dresses and finally deciding to take them all, nothing but a large suitcase that weighs over fifty pounds will do.
Chapter 2 - Ellie
When we take off…
Aiden picks me up on time. This time, we have a driver who hel
ps me with my bag. Aiden just stands near the car and takes me into his arms.
“You’re not going to need this,” he whispers, petting my thick winter coat with his hands.
“Well, it’s freezing out here and I didn’t want to be cold when we came back.”
“And what if we don’t?”
“Ever come back?”
“Yep.” He presses his lips onto mine. “What if we decide to just stay and live on the yacht? Maybe go all the way across the Atlantic and then around the world.”
I consider that for a moment. “That does sound…nice.”
“Let’s do it then,” he says, kissing my hand. I smile at him. “Let’s just see how it goes at first.”
I’m not sure why I’m hesitating. I don’t really have anything to come back to here. My relationship with my mom and Mitch is a bit on the rocks and I don’t really have the strength to try to make it any better. I can write and publish from anywhere. The only thing that I do have is Caroline. I hate to admit it, but one of the main reasons I want to go on this trip is to get away from her. I hate how helpless I feel around her. I want to do something to make her better, but everything I do is futile. Nothing seems to help one bit.
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