Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 129:.It isn’t that Archibald gets louder so much as his perpetual composure cracks into something a little wild and insistent, a taste of feeling that gets kept under lock and key. The emphasis is accompanied by a slow, purposeful thrust into Isabella’s body that threatens to undo her completely.“I want to fill you up so full of pleasure that you can’t remember ever being hurt,” Archibald says like a caress, a promise, a confession. “I would keep you safe and make you happy, if only you would let me. All you would ever have to do is ask it.”Isabella is being tortured.Lovingly, kindly, mercilessly tortured under the soft, steely warmth that simmers in her guts and underneath her skin at Archibald’s words and the way he’s able to take her apart by barely touching her. By barely doing anything. One finger combined with the way that man is talking to her has Isabella rolling her hips to meet each movement, uncaring of the way her back arc
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 130: .It’s the kind of orgasm that takes away her breath and all her strength to hold herself up; the position she’s in doesn’t require much to start with but Isabella’s still fawn-shaky, face pressed into the upholstery and trembling head to toe. Isabella’s allowed two or three heartbeats to gulp helplessly like a fish out of water, suddenly empty and hating every second of it, before she’s being bodily scooped into Archibald’s arms and pulled into his chest like she’s tiny and easy to protect. God, it feels so good; Archibald knows exactly how Isabella likes to be held—not gently but with a fair bit of squeeze and pressure. *I’m here* is what that hold says, not a suggestion or a question, but a fact. *I’m here.* Isabella’s eyes are wet and burning, and somewhere in the back of her mind she knows that she’ll be mortified about this later, will think about being rendered a teary mess from one really, really good orgasm with a fair
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 131: .It doesn’t go remotely unnoticed; Archibald’s fond smile goes just a little sharper when he uses both hands to grip Isabella around the waist and yank her closer.“You seem awfully desperate for someone who claimed she was near death mere minutes ago,” he teases, tauntingly out of reach. He pops the lid on the lube to slick up his cock. “Perhaps you need a few moments to calm down?”“Absolutely the fuck not,” Isabella growls, even when it tapers off into something low and quiet when Archibald lines himself up with her entrance, smears precome over her asshole like the worst and most wonderful tease on earth. “Unless you want me to go fuck myself instead.”“Tempting,” Archibald says mildly. “That will have to be a show for another time. For now, I’d like very much to give you what you were so brave to ask for. May I?”Isabella’s toes curl in anticipation, and she slaps both hands to her face in a failure to cover up the color rising
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 132:.Isabella clings tightly to Archibald’s shoulders and drowns in sensation. All she knows how to do in this moment is hold on and take it, to let Archibald fill her with pleasure like a vessel designed to hold it.“Say it, dearest,” Archibald orders sweetly, the words accompanied by a delicious and brutal roll of his hips that makes Isabella’s toes curl and her cunt drip. He runs one gentle, gentle hand through Isabella’s damp, sweaty dark hair, brushing it out of her face with care. “Who do you belong to?”Isabella sobs, “You,” and then, louder and insistent, “You, you, you.”“Mine,” Archibald agrees without missing a beat, “That’s right, sweetheart. You’re mine, and I’m going to take such good care of you.”Isabella nods wordlessly, glassy-eyed and desperately clingy, warm and fizzy and sex-drunk. Putting herself in Archibald’s hands has never felt so easy and letting him be in control of what’s happening has never felt so safe.Isa
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 133:.“You’re made of jello.” Isabella slaps the mattress with her hand. “Bed. Now.” Belatedly she amends, “Please.”Archibald snorts and nevertheless tugs down the bedspread to slide in next to Isabella, who immediately cuddles up against him like a limpet, arm flung over her thighs and face pillowed against her belly as she settles against the headboard.“Such a good girl for me, taking me so well and letting me make such a mess,” Archibald praises, rubbing his free hand all the way down Isabella’s ribs like he’s stroking a cat. “I wasn’t too rough with you, was I?”“No…” Isabella replies, voice muffled through fabric, “no, it was nice. Not for all the time, but I liked it.”Archibald makes a pleased little noise and leans in close to nuzzle his nose into Isabella’s hair and press a kiss into the side of her head. Isabella’s body feels warm and heavy and so, so tired. Like this, it’s easy to snag one of those big, warm hands and drag it
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire . Chapter 134: . When Isabella wakes up, it’s dark. It’s early even for her, and she spends several minutes marinating in the quiet sounds of a sleeping world. And a sleeping Archibald, too, who’s curled up around her like Isabella’s a particularly beloved teddy bear. There’s something hard poking her in the side, and Isabella realizes that it’s the tablet Archibald was working on the night before. He must have been up late, especially if he didn’t put it somewhere out of the way before falling asleep. He didn’t, at any rate, so Isabella does it for him now, reaching all the way over to plop the device on the wireless charger before wriggling carefully out of his grip. Isabella’s never been good at staying in bed once she’s awake, and a quick glance at her phone, which has been plugged in by someone more motivated than she was at the time, tells her that she’s got some time before sunrise. Coffee at the very least, Isabella decides, and br
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 135: .There’s the temptation after breakfast to go back to bed and find another way to entertain themselves, but Archibald shuffles her to go shower instead.“It’s about ten miles to get into town,” he says when Isabella protests in an appropriately dignified manner, definitely not pouting at having to put pants on. “You’ll like it.” Isabella does pout, then, and is rewarded for her bad behavior by being hoisted up onto the bathroom counter and thoroughly kissed until she’ll say yes to just about anything. And she does say yes, eventually, and delays the inevitable by about ten minutes by sticking her hands down the back of Archibald’s pajamas.Isabella’s never had this kind of domesticity in a relationship before, and it should feel strange but it doesn’t, just scaffolds its way up the norms built in by months of getting to know each other. It doesn’t feel weird at all for Isabella to snag Archibald by the wrist and tug him into the sho
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 136: .“Oh, please. Because your boytoy just woke up and bought half our board and their corresponding shares out from under us for some weekend summer fun? I didn’t think you had it in you, but I guess you had to grow a spine sometime.”Isabella’s brain goes blank. Chantelle’s words land with all the delicacy and grace of anvils, pinning her down under their weight like a butterfly in a box.“I didn’t—you’re wrong,” she protests.“Sure, okay. Keep telling yourself that. Anyway, don’t bother saving this number; I’m ditching the phone once my plane boards. Congratulations on your win, Izzy. We always knew you’d ruin the family, but I didn’t think it’d be like this. Have a good rest of your life, I guess.”There’s a click and then a dial tone. Isabella tries to call back, but it goes straight to a generic voicemail that she knows won’t ever be checked. At best it’s a burner phone; at worst it’s Chantelle’s regular phone that she’s willing t