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2025-02-22 20:00:50When Cruz broke the kiss, her breathing was uneven.
“Dance with me,” he whispered against her mouth as the music shifted to a slow song.
“I thought you can’t dance.”
“I can’t. Two left feet. Yet, I’m willing to sacrifice pride and ego to hold you in my arms.”
“Is your photographer taking sound bites as well as photos?”
“Not at all. I mean it,” he cupped her cheek, his big hand engulfing the entire side of her head. “I know you think I’m playing, Presley but the minute we kissed today on the swing, my entire gameplan has changed. This isn’t only about fixing my public image. I’m going to win you over. I’ll spend the rest of this vacation convincing you I’m not the same kid who hurt you growing up. I don’t think I ever was, but I want to show you who I am as a man now.”
“Cruz,” she protested hi
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Presley tore her hand out of his and smacked him. “What is wrong with you? I lost weight because I was stressed. Why is it me that has to be the one under stress?”“I was coming up with a reason for you not having a ring.”“How about you never gave me one?” she growled at him.“Well, that’s going to ruin our story. Do you want me to get you a ring, Ladybird?”“Fuck off,” she grunted and waved around frustratedly. “This entire vacation is going to the shitter and I’m over it. Can we go back to our room now?”“Why are you so mad?”“I don’t even know!” she grumbled.“You should be glad I’m here. Imagine if I wasn’t and you were here at this resort all alone fighting off the Algernons and the Parises of the world? It would be awful.”“I’m not glad you’re here thoug
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-23Badgering My Billionaire Bully Morning Run
She was surprised when she woke at dawn to find Cruz wasn’t in the bed and evidently hadn’t come back to the room. She grabbed her phone and noted the time was coming on five thirty. Finding herself wondering if maybe he’d slept on the patio, she got out of the bed, padded to the patio, and found no sign of him at all.He really hadn’t come back. Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth she made her way to the bathroom and quickly took care of her business.By six-thirty she was wondering where on earth he’d gotten to because she knew this was an expensive resort which usually sold out well in advance. Her phone didn’t have a single message since she’d fallen asleep the night before. She went back to the patio annoyed with herself over how much she was worrying over him when he was a grown ass man who shouldn’t even be there to begin with.Scanning up and down the beach from the patio there was n
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-24Badgering My Billionaire Bully Cannes
Strolling along a cobbled sidewalk, licking an ice cream cone which cost far too much money, Presley reminded herself she was in a part of the world mere mortals like her should never tread. She wondered whether the people walking around dressed to the nines in the early morning did this every day. It seemed a waste of an effort which would have taken her hours to do, considering she normally woke up in the morning and put her hair in a messy bun, added sunscreen and lip gloss and called herself ready for work.Her phone buzzed again in her pocket, and she knew it was impossible for it to be anyone from home. When she’d spoken to her parents it was after eleven at night. She’d seen her last text messages from the girls after midnight their time and took one annoyed call from her editor while she’d been on the train.It was easily two in the morning now in Vancouver so the person blowing up her phone right now needed to be Cruz. She considered shutting
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-26Badgering My Billionaire Bully Surprise!
Cruz was holding Presley’s hand as they strolled back towards the resort’s hotel following their day in Cannes and he couldn’t stop smiling.Despite the rocky start to the day, they’d actually spent an incredible afternoon day in Cannes. They’d eaten lunch together strolled the streets and shops and he’d enjoyed watching Presley finally relax in his presence.“I really had a fun time today, Ladybird. How would you feel about having dinner together in the restaurant here? I didn’t book anywhere off the resort.”“Actually, I’m exhausted. The run this morning and then all the walking this afternoon, I want to put my feet up and relax.”“What if,” he looked at her hopefully, “we order room service, I give you the best foot massage of your life and we have an early night? I bet I could pull up a movie on the laptop.”“Really? You wouldn&rs
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-27Badgering My Billionaire Bully Sorry Isn't The Hardest Thing
Presley sent a quick text to Sloane.We messed up. The ex is crazier than expected. I believe we may have opened a virtual Pandora’s box of plague and pestilence on France and Cruz.Sloane was seconds in responding.What? Why? How?Presley sent a message back her fingers flying frantically over the tiny keyboard of her screen. Her eyes kept darting to the patio where despite the doors being closed, she could hear his muffled raged and see his hands waving in the air and occasionally tugging at his hair.I forgot to tell you he keeps restraining orders against her. I thought it was simply because she was in his DMs a lot. Nope. Turns out nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake. She showed up here screaming baby across the lobby. He told me she’s so unhinged her parents have her under conservatorship.Like Brittany was? Poor Brittany.We all agree poor Brittany, but this seems to be required.And she’s there?She is here. She is wild. She twitches, Sloane. She actually twitches. We need to f
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-28Badgering My Billionaire Bully Breakfast
Presley was feeling very nervous as she and Cruz entered the breakfast room of the hotel the next morning. She wasn’t sure where Ramona was lurking but she was quite certain, based on the way Cruz was complaining while she was in the shower how the woman was still at the resort.“I hired local security services,” Cruz told her as they took a seat. “There are two men sitting at the table next to us who are part of my security detail now. They will ensure Ramona doesn’t cause a scene. Unfortunately her parents can’t get here until tomorrow to collect her and bring her home.”She leaned back as the hostess poured them each a cup of coffee and left them with the menu.“We have four more days here before we go to Spain. I wonder if maybe we could get the itinerary changed?”“I already asked Anderson to look into it and no. The resort in Spain is packed solid. I tried to find a different one but it wasn’t near the same location and Sloane appa
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-02Badgering My Billionaire Bully Big Brother
“Presley!” A man’s voice called her from the lobby of the hotel as they were leaving to go walk down to the beach and her head snapped sideways in disbelief. “Odin?” “Holy shit, you two are together!” Her older brother and nemesis unlike no other, stormed towards her and Cruz with a furious expression on his face. “She’s my kid sister, Cruz!” “I called you a few weeks back and you said she was nothing to you, not a sister and you would never acknowledge her as such.” Cruz boldly called him out. “Yeah, because I didn’t want to get pulled into the blame for her shit. She’s crazy.” “Insult her again and see what happens,” Cruz’s eyes were more green than brown as anger filled them. “Neat,” Presley looked up at him. “You really do go all hulk smash when you’re mad. Your hazel eyes look more green than the mix.” “You shouldn’t be looking into his eyes, Presley. He’s known you since you were an infant.” “What do you care, Odin?” She asked folding her arms over her che
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-02Badgering My Billionaire Bully Algernon To The Rescue
Presley was seated by herself on the patio outside the room she was sharing with Cruz when a voice hissing her name called her. She looked over the rail and noted Algernon standing there.“What the actual hell?” She questioned quietly. Why now of all time did Cruz say he needed the bathroom? She was not close enough for them to be using toilets in each other presences and so she’d vacated to the patio, despite him telling her he wasn’t shy and she could stay. She shuddered with the notion and then looked back at Algernon. Which was worse? Algernon or Cruz seated on a toilet with the door off the room. Right now both men felt repulsive.“Presley. Your name is Presley right?”She did not want this man to know her name but yet something in his facial expression told her something was wrong. “Yes. Why?”“Okay, I was jut having drinks in the bar,” he waved his hand as he got closer to her patio, tripping over some flora as he continued talking, “well, actually I was avoiding my wife. S
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Wandering through the casino she now owned, Presley was trying to get a feel for the way people gravitated to the flash and noise of the scene.She couldn’t understand it at all. Perhaps because she’d never felt a desperate need to make ends meet or to find a quick way to make cash, the appeal to throw money into a machine in hopes of a jackpot never appealed to her. There was more than one person sitting at the slot machines who were greasy-haired and reeking of desperation. It reminded her she was better off than most for the entirety of her life. Now, though, she was far wealthier than any of these people at the machines would dream of being even if they hit it right and won a jackpot.She didn’t deserve any of it.She was taking it though. Presley lifted her chin defiantly. If for no other reason than to thumb her nose at the man who thought he’d be able to convince her to be his wife and steal her life from her, she was taking what she knew he never intended to hand over so soon.
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“Where are you?” Belkin’s voice was gruff in her ear.“I’m on my way to talk to my editor. I told you. I’d come to you when I was done my meeting.” Presley was as gruff back to Belkin.“I will meet you there. I have an update for you.”“It can’t wait until I meet you at the holding cells in the casino?”“No.”“Good grief,” she muttered when the phone went dead. She looked to her driver who was watching her in the rearview mirror and shrugged. “Do you think I’ll ever get used to dealing with cranky mob bosses?”“You are one of them now, Miss.” Her driver grinned at her.“Fair.” She nodded her agreement and then turned her attention back to looking out the window. She missed being able to walk everywhere and to have anonymity and freedom to come and go as she pleased. What was only a thirty-minute walk from her home to her editor’s main office, was now impossible to navigate on foot because she needed to travel with guards, paparazzi were chasing her since Liborio’s death was announced
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Sitting at the dining room table in Cruz’s condo overlooking Coal Harbour the next morning, Presley wondered why she was clinging to her teeny, tiny, little apartment so much. The view from here was incredible. In other rooms of the condo, you could see Stanley Park and from the balcony you could see beyond the ferry terminals. It was stunning from a location perspective. Add in the fact it was a four-bedroom condo, tons of wide-open space, warm and inviting and Cruz’s bed was a king-sized bed, and she could probably fit her entire apartment in his bedroom alone, well she was almost dreading going back to her miniscule hole in the wall.She took another bite of her sandwich while Cruz was in his home gym, another perk of his condo despite the building having an entire gym of it’s own, she listened to the clanging of metal. According to Cruz, the shared gym didn’t have weights which were heavy enough for what he usually lifted. The grunting sounds as he began lifting whatever he’d put
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“I can’t stop scratching,” Presley muttered as they loaded into the waiting SUV to go home. “I’ve never had lice, but I think maybe I have them now. Did your guys get the shampoo?”“Stop saying lice,” Cruz hissed at her as he scratched the top of his head.“It’s what they are!” She peered at him carefully, “I can’t help but think of how you hugged your assistant while she was crying.”“You cannot be jealous.”“No! I’m not jealous. I mean Ramona kept their heads pretty tight together. Then you hugged the poor girl while she came apart, and rightly so,” she glared at him, “but your heads were close and if one of those things crawled from Ramona to her and it crawled to you, you might have lice.” She paused. “I hope she is okay.”“She is going to be fine. Her husband was meeting her at the clinic and I already arranged for a psychologist to meet her there and to do a debrief with her to make sure she gets some help for what she went through today. I also gave her paid leave and told her
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“That might have been the hottest thing I’ve ever witnessed.”She snickered at Cruz’s comment when they were back in the SUV.“Where to next, boss?” Cruz waggled his eyebrows at her and she laughed.“You were supposed to go to work today and you didn’t. You should probably get something done for your own business.”He gave a sigh, “yes. I know but this was fun.” He made a face, “I also am not quite ready to let you leave me.”“What if I hung out in your office? Is there anything happening there which is top-secret or confidential? Can I hang out on the sofa?” She’d been to his office earlier in the week and there was a giant plush suede sofa he confessed to having for naps when he needed a break.“I would love this.”“Can we swing by my place, grab my laptop, and outline book? I’m feeling really inspired after this morning and I want to jot dot some ideas and maybe begin the framework of my next story.”“Definitely.”It didn’t take long before they were back at Cruz’s office and she w
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She was standing in the lobby of the Hawley Telecom building, holding Cruz’s hand feeling like the most powerful bitch on the planet. Truth be told, she might even be her, and the thought sent a shiver of excitement down her spine.Their meeting with Belkin had been long but in the end, he’d told her the four other families, his included, would manage all the illegal activities for her as proxies or she could sell those businesses to them outright and they would split it. She’d decided on the latter because peddling drugs was not anything she wanted part of. Then when she’d had a mini panic attack over suddenly being responsible for several large companies, she was reassured all of the companies had CEO’s at the helm. She was the president of them all and everyone would report to her, but each company was very effectively managed. Cruz and Belkin both promised to guide her through the process while making sure she could still have time for her writing and anything else she wanted to
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“I’m so very confused,” Presley rubbed her forehead and with her other hand reached for Cruz. She needed his strength as all of hers seemed to have seeped from her body to pool somewhere under the table. She felt comforted as his large hand engulfed hers completely and then he moved sideways and pressed his lips to his temple.The lawyer spoke, “Miss Brookmore, my name is Atticus Marella. I am the legal advisor for multiple families associated with the Phoenix Initiative.”“Phoenix Initiative?”“Yes,” this time it was Belkin. “When we were coming up with a name of the organization where five families who usually fought one another for territory and profit were teaming up together, we came up with this name. Our goal is each woman we rescue to be like a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Liborio, when drafting our insignia, insisted we use the same shade of auburn in the flames which matched the hair of his sister and mother in tribute to them. I digress of course,” Belkin sighed, “however
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Cruz looked at Presley sideways as they sat in the back of an SUV worriedly.“You didn’t have to come.”“It’s me he is threatening.” She rubbed the leather upholstery of the bench seat they were on. “This is nice. Maybe having to be driven everywhere won’t be so awful if I get to sit on buttery leather, have a hot driver and you in the backseat.”He turned his torso to face her pursing his lips in annoyance, “hot driver?”“Cruz look at him,” she whispered mockingly to the man on the other side of the glass partition. “Your security team found me a guy bigger than you! It’s my type.”“You’re not his. He likes men.”“No way.”“You think jacked up guys can’t be gay?”“Yes, they can but not him. He looked at my ass.”“When?”“When I was getting into the car. I saw him checking me out.”He shook his head and frowned, “you’re trying to get me going.”“Am I?” she made wide eyes at him.“Distracting me because of where we are going.”“Well, you’re squeezing your cell phone so tight I’m surpri
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Presley looked down at Cruz as her shaking fingers unbuttoned his shirt to push it back off his shoulders. His hazel eyes were clear and focused on her as if memorizing each tiny detail of her features and yet she was mesmerized by the golden flesh she was uncovering. Vacation sunshine gave his skin a sun kissed and burnished glow Her palm ran over his thick pecs, stroking his nipples and cupping the taut sinew of his flesh. His cock twitched under her as she explored the curves of his abdomen and then back up his shoulders and it forced a smile to her face.“What are you grinning like the Cheshire Cat for?” he asked as he wriggled his arm out of the sleeve of his shirt to allow her further exploration.She ground her pelvis against his, “ten seconds of touching you and you’re already getting hard.”“Ladybird, I can get hard thinking of the smile on your face, let alone having you touch me.”She continued letting her hands search as he pulled his shirt from under him and tossed it asi
