Seduced By My Billionaire Boss (The Billionaire Boss Series, #1) (16 page)

“Where to now, sir?”

“Back to Times Square.”

I looked at Tom curiously, pulling the scarf higher around my mouth. “Are we going skating again? Not that the first time wasn’t a blast, but isn’t it closed by now?”

He swung my legs over his lap and nestled me back in his arms. “All in good time...”

I should have seen it coming. I honestly don’t know why I didn’t think of it before. But I had no idea what we were doing back out in the city until I saw the huge tree.

An enormous throng of people had crowded around it, waiting for the annual countdown to fire up the lights. For a second, I just stared in wonder. Despite all my time living in the city, I had never seen it in person before. Rose and I usually just watched from the couch, that is, if we hadn’t passed out already from our holiday bar hopping.

I leaned a little further out of the carriage to get a better look. “Are we going to go right up to the base?” The excitement in my voice made me sound like a child. I turned around to see Tom smiling. He was also holding something out in his hand. A little-wrapped box.

“What’s this?”

“Merry Christmas, Jenna.”

My face paled. “Tom...I didn’t...I didn’t get you anything. I didn’t think we’d see each other today or that you’d want—”

“Relax—the day was my present. Now open yours.”

I still felt outrageously guilty, but he pressed it into my hands with a little coaxing smile. The wrapping came apart easily (despite his other perfections, Tom was a terrible wrapper), and as I opened the box, I literally gasped in astonishment.

Two beautiful diamond earrings sparkled back at me.

They looked like he’d simply taken the falling snowflakes, and fashioned them into art. Each one had a million little curves and facets. A million delicate intersecting lines, woven together to make them look like actual drops of fallen snow.

“Do you like them?”

He was staring at me intently, tense—as if there was a chance his huge gesture might be taken the wrong way. In truth, I didn’t know how to take it. I didn’t know how to take the whole day. We’d made a plan, right? We’d knew that a relationship was against the rules, and we’d decided to get it all out of our systems.

But looking at the man in the carriage beside me, holding these exquisite diamonds in my hand, I wanted nothing more than to stay in this moment forever.

Outside the carriage, the countdown began.

“Ten...nine...eight...”

“Tom, I...I don’t know what any of this means. I don’t know what comes next.”

“...seven...six...five...four...”

“I don’t either, Jenna. I really don’t.”

“...three...two...one!”

The world around us exploded in light. Fireworks shot through the sky as the enormous tree danced in the glow of a billion sparkling lights. Couples started pairing off, kissing each other and wishing everyone Merry Christmas.

“But Jenna?”

Our lips met, for the briefest moment, before he lifted his up to my ear.

“...I can’t wait to find out.”

To be continued...

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Britt woke up in Jack’s glorious arms. 

Jack...whatever his last name was. She hadn't a clue who he was. Kicking her way out of the sheet, Britt got to her feet and clutched her head instantly. It pounded like an unsuccessful road construction project and her teeth hurt, actually ached from the hangover. Stumbling to the bathroom with annoyance, she drank water and took a shower and drank more water, chastising herself for letting it get this bad. 

She knew to drink water and take aspirin before bed to help curb this hideous feeling. She needed a full breakfast, something big. But she was stuck with this guy who thought it was socially acceptable to hang out after a one-night stand. Britt didn’t have any experience with a one-nighter except that time in college with the one guy in her women’s studies class, the one with the tattoo of a hard drive motherboard on his chest. That hadn’t ended well but for sure he had at least had the courtesy to leave her dorm immediately afterward. Were they supposed to have breakfast together? Bond in some way? She had work. He had...probably the unemployment line or guitar practice or something. Mainly, she needed head-space to get ready for her day and try to forget what she’d done the night before, namely some guitarist whose last name was a mystery better left unsolved. The guy was HOT! But she knew she would never see him again. 

Or would she? 

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She thinks he’s despicable. He wants her back...with a vengeance. 

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Short blurb: A woman must travel around the globe with her despicable ex in order to get her hands on her inheritance. 

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Five years later, Jake steps back into her life... 

He realizes that being a no-show for their nuptials was the worst mistake of his life. A little older and more mature, he is ready to fight for Ashly’s love once again. When Ashly sees him, she can’t deny the attraction she feels, but her hormones are overruled by the horror of what he did to her in the past. Nevertheless, Jake’s most potent weapon, those dazzling baby blues, ignites a spark in Ashly, no matter how angry she wants to be. She cannot deny the spark, and she only hopes the inferno it ignites will not consume her heart again. 

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Needing someone to protect, he goes against his better judgment and steps into her world and makes her fight his own. With the largest syndicate in New York searching high and low for them, the pair doesn't have the luxury of living in the present. They're forced to stay on the razor edge of tomorrow.

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