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Watching as Mina sipped her coffee, Presley wondered if it was possible this woman was really as innocent as she proclaimed. The way her tongue darted to the edge of the coffee cup to lick the droplet of the brew and the way her eyes seemed to be drinking in the scenery while completely ignoring the way every man seemed to be looking at her felt far too innocent to be real. Yet, the woman appeared truly oblivious to her effect on multiple men in the area, including Liborio.

He on the other hand was even colder and more aloof than previously. He was tearing at a pastry with his fingers and glowering at his coffee cup as if it contained arsenic instead of the best coffee Presley ever tasted.

“Presley, how did you two meet?” Mina asked suddenly, her big eyes with the dark lashes batting exaggeratedly. “I have to admit you make a striking couple and when you were getting out of the car, I couldn’t help but think how perfect you look together.”

Presley considered Cruz’s feelings would be h
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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Never Ending Nightmre

    Cruz was pacing the hotel room aware he was on the cusp of losing everything.His PR manager was on the phone and her silence was telling.“What did we lose?”“Nothing yet, Cruz. Our team is on it but the paparazzi, which the hotel was doing so well to keep out of the resort managed to get multiple shots of Ms. Brookmore getting into a vehicle with Mr. Bartoli. There are pictures of them getting out of the vehicle to have breakfast together and his hand is on her low back. It looks intimate.”“Fuck,” he mumbled.“We can pass it off as a business breakfast but what kind of business your fiancée, a bestselling author, is doing with a man who runs casinos all over the world as a front for his mob activities is going to take some creativity to spin.”“This is a nightmare.” He knew in his gut it was Bartoli who got the photographer on site. It was to remind him Liborio held all the cards, and he was nothing in the grand scheme of things. Cruz made his billion by investing in medical scienc

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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Day Out

    “Over my dead body,” Cruz finally spoke as Presley began packing up things in the room. “What are you doing?”“Packing.” She fought the tremor in her voice. She was hurting. All of Cruz’s angry words were under her skin like a million little needles. He thought she was a child. He thought he was the one who needed to come up with an adult plan to save her like she was some damsel in distress who needed a man to rescue her. Didn’t he realize it was a stupid man who got her into this shit?“Why are you packing?”“Can’t have Liborio’s babies from your bed,” she said bluntly.“You think you’re going to go move into his suite?”“I did tell him I was going to have his kids.”“Ladybird, if I have to bring Algernon into it and kidnap you and throw you on a yacht in the middle of the,” his voice trailed off. “That’s what I’ll do. I’m going to get you the fuck out of here.”“Then he kills Odin, he releases the information Odin accused Mom of child abuse which will destroy her career as a child

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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Dress Shopping

    Presley and Cruz held hands as they were followed at a discreet distance by a security team, both hired by Cruz and Liborio.“I feel like we’re criminals being followed around by cops.” Presley grumbled.“Ignore them. I know it’s hard but ignore them,” Cruz kissed her knuckles. “Remember when we went skiing at Whistler?”She looked at him in surprise. “What?”“When your dad took us all skiing at Whistler. You were in grade seven or eight. Remember?”“I do.”“I was trying to think of all the fun things we did, like a family, and not the pranks and stuff. Your dad always made me feel like I was part of your family. It was partly why I felt so guilty about lusting after you when I saw you in your undies. I considered you a sister and there I was hard as a rock. Anyway,” he shook his head, “I was thinking of Whistler on my run this morning.”“What about it?”“It was fun. We didn’t prank each other once. Odin wasn’t a completely miserable twat because he was on the ski hill and let’s be re

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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   On A Ship

    Presley opened her eyes to the feeling of the room swaying. Her stomach was lurching as she recalled being tased and Cruz falling to the floor right before she did. She looked around the room and found she was alone, in what appeared to be a cabin in a boat.“Ah you’re awake,” the door to the cabin opened and Liborio Bartoli stepped in. “How’s the head?”“You motherfucker.” She tried to sit up in bed but found she was devoid of the strength to do so. “What did you do?”“A little subterfuge. Did you really think I was into Mina?” he gave a laugh which was dark and menacing. “If I wanted a virgin bride, I could have such a thing on my own. I let you think I found her scintillating. You have a very romantic view of the world, Presley, or should I say Perris Brooks, and as a result, all it takes is a little pointed stare, a bit of discipline not to shoot a woman in the head for throwing coffee which had long grown cold and a little patience for a man who thinks he’s bigger than he is, and

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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   All A Prank

    Presley followed Estrella up the stairs and was surprised to find she really was on a ship. It wasn’t a yacht or a fancy rich person’s boat but an actual ship.“What kind of boat is this?”“Fishing trawler,” Estrella shrugged, “a big one.”She looked around the deck and noted a lot of men working and she made a face. “Why am I dressed up for dinner?”“You’re going to the captain’s quarters. Everyone else will eat in the main dining hall.” Estrella’s features took on a smug countenance, “you should wave.”“To whom?” Presley frowned as she looked in the direction Estrella was staring. “Shit. Is that Odin?” she wanted to immediately run over to the man who was tied up to a post on the deck, but Estrella pulled her arm. “What on earth is he tied up for?”“As an example of what happens when you cross the boss.” Estrella shrugged.She shot a worried glance at Odin who didn’t even appear to be conscious. “He’s going to burn in the sun.”“Let him. I hope he catches fire. He’s not a nice man.”

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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Love?

    Presley looked at Liborio and then measured her next words carefully.“You’re wrong, Liborio. I think you believe you’re saving me but you’re wrong.”“You will see things differently in time.”“Have you never said anything in a fit of anger you didn’t mean?”“No.”“Lucky you. I do it all the time. Do you know who else shoots their mouth off when they’re angry, frustrated, panicking?” She thought of Cruz earlier calling her a child and yelling at her and knew his fears for her were not faked. He loved her. This man sitting opposite her was never going to convince her otherwise. “Cruz does, Liborio. He’s a big man with big emotions and it is why he says things he doesn’t mean. I also know there isn’t a bone in his body which would truly hurt me.”“He broke your arm when you were kids. He literally and physically hurt you. You brought it up yourself at the restaurant.”“Stop.” She took a breath. “He broke my arm because he didn’t see me riding my bike behind his car. He cried more than I

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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Wake-Up

    Cruz felt his head throbbing painfully as everyone whispered around him. It had been more than an hour since he woke up on the floor of the room he shared with Presley. Anderson was still hovering over him as he continued to lay on his side on the bed.According to Algernon, who was also in the room, he’d been tased and then when he was on the ground someone injected him with a sedative. He was then transported back to his room and dumped there with Presley nowhere in sight. His heart clenched painfully.“Cruz, you need to sit up and help us.”“He took her,” Cruz whispered sadly.“He did but we can get her back. Algernon knows people.”“My Russian friend is on his way,” Algernon spoke seriously. “I believe Liborio Bartoli underestimates who I am and what I do. I tend to lay very low and operate more in shadows. I have a very public image here in Europe which makes a good cover for my more,” he made a face, “illustrious activities.”Cruz noted Algernon was speaking to him in French as

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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Crazier Than Ramona

    Presley returned to her room on the ship and immediately noted pajamas laid out for her. She gave a sideways glance at Estrella who stood in the room her back to the door.“You’re staying?”“I presume you’ll want to brush your teeth after eating.”“I didn’t eat.”“Are you hungry? I can get you something and bring it to you.”“No.” When the woman continued to stand there she rolled her eyes angrily. “Estrella, what the hell do you want? Why are you still standing here? You can leave.”“I’m to take your dress with me. You get one change of clothes only. There are straps on the dress you’re wearing which could be used to strangle.”“Oh my god, I’d never strangle anyone. I can barely write violent scenes in my books without feeling nauseated and you think I can do it with my bare hands?”“In your last book, your heroine used the neck of a wine bottle to stab someone in the neck. In another one the heroine used the metal chain of handcuffs to choke out her opponent. My favorite,” Estrella

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  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Damn Odin

    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.

  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Pitching Ideas

    “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

  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Planning

    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

  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Itchy

    “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

  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Hostage Situation

    “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

  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Mr. Hawley

    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

  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Legitimate Businesses

    “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

  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Surprise Visit

    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

  • Badgering My Billionaire Bully   Piece By Piece

    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

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