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Billionaires in Paris
A Dom Vs. Domme Story
Cynthia Dane
BARACHOU PRESS
BILLIONAIRES IN PARIS
A Dom Vs. Domme Story
Copyright: Cynthia Dane
Published: June 27th, 2016
Publisher: Barachou Press
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BILLIONAIRES IN PARIS
Chapter 1
KATHRYN
Paris. City of lights, city of love. A city with a rich and detailed history going back thousands of years. Something about Normans and the English language… conquering… revolutions… Napoleon… free and kinky love…
Fuck it. I’m here in this spot for one thing.
Haute couture.
I stand on a Parisian sidewalk, gawking like a total tourist at the simple display in the shop window. Most people wouldn’t look at it twice, regardless of the heavy gold writing and the black, feathery dress in the single-mannequin window. But if you’re me, then you know that this is one of the greatest boutiques in all of France. Maybe Europe.
The whole fucking world!
I’m not usually big on fashion. I grew up in New England, where anyone with means wore the latest styles and then pitched them in the garbage as soon as the season changed. Schoolgirls from the nicest public schools would rummage through our trash looking for designers they had heard about online. Givenchy who? Dolce & Gabbana who? Anna Wintour could eat our hearts out!
When my boyfriend asked me to go to Paris with him for a week, I thought, oh, how nice. Some elegant meals and maybe a gratuitous selfie by the Eiffel Tower. Ha. Ha.
The moment we stepped off the private jet, he went off to a dinner meeting, leaving me to my own devices. I checked into our historic hotel suite.
Then I came here, drawn by the call of beautiful, mind-blowing clothes.
I love couture. I never wear it, but I love to stare at it, admire its craftsmanship, and maybe drool. I can’t pull off extravagant styles. I’m as Boston chic as it gets. (Or is it called Autumn in New York now?) I wear simple dresses when appropriate. Otherwise, I’m in pants, sweaters, scarves, boots…
Fuck it! Let me in!
A man in tailored tails approaches the window from the other side. He has a tiny spray bottle in one gloved hand. Doubtlessly, I am a rutting cat in need of spritzing. “Get away, vermin! These aren’t for you!” He’s joined by a dowdy middle-aged woman with curly red hair and a floral sweater dress. Not exactly the types you expect to be working at a couture shop that processes hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.
They look at me. I gape at them. Me, in my brown cashmere sweater and $700 jeans. I’ve got a Prada bag, but is it enough?
No. It’s not enough for these fuddy-duddies. The French invented fuddy-duddies! (Sorry, Britain.) Their judgment is scathing. I’m gonna need burn treatments later on. That’s just from the searing looks both man and woman send me. Soon enough, security will arrive, scraping my fashion-desecrated body off the street.
I open my Prada bag and pull out my leather wallet. Do I go for my ID? No. Are you fucking kidding me? Like I’m gonna slap an American driver’s license against a haute couture window! Did you not get the memo where I’m trying to get in to this boutique and be treated like the spoiled princess I damn well am?
Instead, I slap my black credit card against the window. Greasy fingers leave marks on the glass. My grin announces my victory.
Their sudden, kind smiles flash back at me. The woman scuttles away, and the man makes a welcoming motion. By the time the woman pops out of an intimidating door below street level, I’m hopping up and down like a girl on her sixth birthday.
My phone starts buzzing. I ignore it. Pfft. It’s only my boyfriend asking if I want to meet him at the restaurant. As soon as I pick up some new threads, babe!
Chapter 2
IAN
I don’t know where the hell Kathryn is (answer my texts, damnit,) but I hope she’s having a better time than I am.
Don’t get me wrong. Paris is a great city. I’ve been here many times in my life, and every time I always find something to amuse myself with. Last time it was a busty brunette named Simone. Ahem. This time I’m sure it’s going to be my lovely girlfriend, Kathryn, whom I’ve been with for over a year now. Could we call this an anniversary trip? Maybe. It’s sort of a mulligan from a botched getaway to Vegas a few months ago.
Yet when my father, the always meddling and plotting Dominic Mathers, heard I was coming to Paris, the first thing he did was arrange a meeting between myself and Damon Monroe, one of the richest fuckers in America. Also one of the most intimidating. Not that I am ever intimidated, mind you.
What’s funny is that this guy actually lives in the same city as me back in America. Yet we have to meet in Paris if we’re going to meet at all. That’s the life of the rich, folks.
“The portfolio should be substantial enough to please my father,” Monroe says, casually sitting with his legs crossed and hands in his lap. A half-eaten plate of luxurious French food grows cold on the table. One of the most celebrated French chefs in the world owns this restaurant, and neither Monroe nor I can be too impressed anymore. At least I’m eating all my food, though. My mother taught me some manners. “I’ll have one of my assistants do a more thorough investigation into your family’s holdings, but I’m sure it won’t be an issue.”
I’ve spent most of my life dealing with men like Monroe – hell, some would say that I am a man like Monroe – and he has to be one of the biggest examples of an asshole I’ve ever encountered. I wish I could say that I’m kidding. Monroe and I are almost the same exact age, and yet while I was captaining the soccer team at the Winchester Academy in 2004, Damon Monroe was halfway through his undergrad at Princeton. He knows his shit. So when I hand over a portfolio detailing my family’s extensive real estate holdings, I better damn well make sure I check them over a million times and make sure they’re accurate. The Monroes are prime to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into my family’s business, and if I don’t secure it, I think my father will disown me. (I’m his only child and heir, by the way.)
He’s wearing one of the finest tailor made suits I’ve ever seen, and I have no idea what it is. His cologne is halfway to seducing me, the most heterosexual man you have yet to meet. (I swear. I’m not protesting too much. Really.) His body language both irritates and intrigues me. Fuck me. I’ve got a guy crush.
Monroe holds his hand up, and two assistants sitting off to the side leap
up to do his bidding. Here I thought I was hot shit for having a full-time assistant back in America. Valerie would smack me across the face and pour her baby’s piss into my coffee if I treated her like that.
“Yes, sir. Absolutely, sir.” Some twiggy guy in a suit as expensive as mine takes the portfolio away. The other assistant pulls out her tablet and gets to work verifying the information. Riiiiight in front of me.
Not that I have anything to hide. It’s the principle of the thing. Like, really?
“My father will be in contact with yours over the final decision.” Monroe plucks his wineglass off the table and savors the aroma. Do I look like this much of a douchebag when I go to wine tastings? “By the way, how are things?”
He’s giving me a chilly smile, as if we’re best friends, or at least go back to Winchester. I think we may have attended the same Young Men’s Gala when we were thirteen, but that’s it.
“Things are well. Business is on an upswing this year. We’re looking to purchase and remodel an estate in the Hamptons.” I drink my wine faster than he does. I have nothing to savor. “Turn it into a quaint bed and breakfast. With eighty rooms and ten breakfast nooks.” It’s my mother’s ridiculous idea. I’m only along for the ride.
“Fantastic.” Oh, yeah, I can feel his enthusiasm seeping from his finely-trimmed brows. “Except I was inquiring more into personal matters. I saw in the paper that you and Ms. Alison have passed the one-year mark.”
Would it be uncouth to pour another glass of wine? Why the hell is he asking about my girlfriend? Like it’s any of his business. Does he even know Kathryn? Damon Monroe is not the kind of man she would bother with. Kathryn spends her free time in soup kitchens and underfunded libraries. Monroe is the man making people homeless and asking interviewers “What do we really use libraries for these days?”
“Yes, I’m a very lucky man.” I’m by myself here, so I don’t have servants or assistants traipsing around Paris with me. Valerie would’ve loved to come, I’m sure, and she probably silently stewed when I told her it would only be Kathryn and me in Paris, but I’m a big boy who can do most things on his own. I don’t even need my assistant to hold my dick for me while I take a piss. “It’s the real deal with her.”
“With so many weddings happening this year, I would think you two are next.”
Thank my stars I am a controlled, contained man. Because Monroe brought up marriage and he has no idea what a can of worms that is.
To some degree I’ve asked Kathryn to marry me. More than once. I’ve at least implied that I want her to be my wife. She knows how I feel. Unfortunately, I know how she feels too.
“We’ll see,” I say, ready to break my wineglass stem. “We’re still young and taking time.”
“My father always said that when a man knows, he knows.” That all-knowing grin is worse than my father’s when he’s about to do something incredibly stupid. “I’m a bit jealous.”
What the fuck do I say to that?
I’m saved by one of his assistants springing forward. “Sirs,” he whispers over the table, “there is a woman asking to come in.”
Neither Monroe nor I flinch. “Who is it?” Monroe asks with a firm tone. The male assistant scurries to the female one, who looks up from her tablet and announces my girlfriend.
Another smile flashes in my direction. “Speak of the lovely lady and she appears. Go ahead and send her in. I’m sure Mr. Mathers will be fine with his girlfriend joining us.” Nevertheless, Monroe is buttoning up his jacket. “I’d like to say hello anyway.”
Does he know Kathryn?
Oh, hell, does he know Kathryn? The woman sauntering into our private dining room in one of the hottest blue dresses I’ve ever seen?
I’m not good at fashion terms, but they suddenly spring to my mind as I see my queen brush off Monroe’s assistants with an icy hand. Ow. My heart. My gut. My cock.
Queen Anne has nothing on Kathryn and the way that neckline frames her breasts. The sapphire blue fabric hugs her body as it travels down her long torso and grabs her hips like I often want to. Dark blue heels cut into the carpet, ass sashaying, French-tipped nails clutching a Chanel… clutch. (I’m starting to lose it here, sorry.) What kills me is her hair and frosty makeup. When she’s out and about, Kathryn likes to wear her light blond hair up in a French twist, either with dangling earrings – three rattling blue beads each – or none at all. One of my favorite things to do is rip that twist apart when in the throes of lovemaking. It’s a very convenient way to grab all of her hair and pull until she’s crying from the powerful ecstasy we share.
“Ian,” she says coolly, the very incarnate of the ice princess the papers love to say she is. I’m swooning, like the biggest sap in the universe. “And… Mr. Monroe.”
They exchange an even icier look. I knew it. They do not like each other. Why would they, when…
Monroe holds out his hand, and to my surprise, Kathryn gently takes it with a glittering smile. “Please. It’s always Damon for you, Kathryn.”
I am not the only man in this room who notices the way she looks away and sputters through another smile. What? No. No way. Monroe is not flirting with my woman in front of me. I know he isn’t. He’s a cocky, arrogant bastard, but he’s not stupid, right?
Furthermore, why is my sweet Katie giving this fucker the time of day?
Tension mounts in the room, although I think Kathryn is the only one not feeling it. She draws her hand back and turns to me again. Her eyes linger on an empty chair next to me. I pull it out, eager to have her near me and not him.
“Sorry I’m late,” she says. “Or early. I can’t remember if I was supposed to join you.”
“I think you’re early.”
Monroe chooses now to interrupt, even though his assistants are packing up their things and conferring about the rest of their boss’s schedule for the day. “Is that Martine Collette?” He gestures to Kathryn’s dress. “My, you are on the forefront of fashion, Kathryn. You better wear that to my party next weekend. There are going to be many fashion blogger vultures hanging outside the fence. They’d love the show, I’m sure.”
“Perhaps I will.” Wait, we’re going to his party? We were invited, but Kathryn and I rarely go to parties unless it’s pertinent to business or someone we know really well. Monroe is neither at the moment. Fuuuuck, she’s still flirting! What has gotten into her? “Yes, this is Martine Collette. I was at her boutique before coming here. Do you like it?” She’s asking both Monroe and me.
“You know I love blue,” I say.
Monroe goes on some obnoxious diatribe about fabric, cuts, and Fashion Week. Apparently he goes to those. Kathryn is so flattered that he has noticed these details on a simple blue dress that she’s blushing, and she hasn’t even had a drink of wine. I’m pouring her more than a glass. Not that I think she needs it. If anything, I probably need to get her a cool ice pack to quell these flames.
Hey! Look at me! Pay attention to me!
I’ve seen Kathryn flirt with other men before. Sometimes it’s to stroke their egos and get her way, and other times she’s just flirting. It usually doesn’t bother me. For some reason this is riling me up, and not in the sexy way.
Okay, a little in the sexy way. My alpha tendencies, which I am usually very good at keeping quiet, are ready to rage. Kathryn desperately needs to be thrown on this table and shown who her damned boyfriend is.
If she’s not calling me Master by the end of tonight…
My hand wraps around her leg beneath her hem. She barely notices.
“Martine Collette is going to explode this next year, mark my words.” Monroe is up, pulling his coat on and shaking more of that cologne in our direction. Gee, sure would be nice if Kathryn would stop grinning at him like a love-sick idiot. My hand goes from her leg to the small of her back, and then around her torso. Mine. Mine mine mine. I didn’t spend months chasing after her, training her in the world of submission, and convincing her that it was okay for us to be in love for D
amon Monroe to come waving his cock around like a rival baboon.
Dear Paris: you’re a bit too open-minded for me. Chill on the ménage a tois vibes. With other guys, anyway.
“I must be going.” Finally! Monroe nods to us before turning around. “Perhaps I will see you two around The Dark Hour.” His deadly wink slaps me across the face and stabs Kathryn right in the heart and loins. I quit.
Once we’re alone, Kathryn slaps her hands against her legs and flashes me the goofiest grin.
“You like my dress? It’s couture.”
Okay, first of all, we have things to talk about here. Like how you’re hoisting your breasts in some other man’s face… right in front of me! “That’s couture?” I know how to pick my battles. “Looks like a regular dress to me.”
“I didn’t want to buy something too ostentatious, but I had to buy something after going through half their racks and sobbing over some of the best craftsmanship you’ve ever seen. Isn’t it crazy that he knew who Martine Collette is? The only reason I know her is because I got to go to that private show two weeks ago.”
Uh huh. That’s nice. “You sure were sweet with Monroe.” A waiter comes in to clear the man’s dishes, but Kathryn stops him and takes the plate for herself. “Are you serious?” She grabs my dirty fork instead of his, at least. “You’re going to eat his scraps?”
“What? Let this food go to waste?” All Kathryn orders is an iced tea. The waiter leaves the room. “Wow. His cologne is all over this plate.” She goes from slightly disgusted to giggling again in two seconds.
“Something you want to share over here?”
“What?”
“What do you mean what?” My hand clenches her shoulder as she takes the first bite of Monroe’s leftovers. I know. I’m acting like a possessive caveman dickwad who found his most precious treasure being dragged by the hair to another cave. Monroe is also the kind of shit to start painting pornographic pictures of their encounter on his cave walls, not only for me to suffer through, but for our descendants to rediscover thousands of years later. Facebook trending headline: “Caveman Drawing Depicts Prehistoric Cuckold.”
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