Book 1 Chapter 1: Zeke Armani

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Her Playboy Contract Husband

Genre: Billionaire Romance

Female Lead: Blair Monore (A Simple coffee barrist

Male Lead: Zeke Armani (The playboy billionaire

Supporting Character

B: Aurora (Blair's Best friend since childhood

World Set: Set in a modern world in New York

Theme: Love, Romance, Lust, betrayal

Blurb-What do you do when you need to clean up your past and image especially if you're the most talked about man on earth and in the country!

#Clean up your reputation and silence the scandal

#Start a new leaf of life.

Billionaire CEO Zeke Armani the notorious scandal faced bad boy has built quiet an infamous reputation for himself. Definitely not by intention of course but the paparazzi are always just a step away from getting out a new story about him, Zeke decides the horrid scandals needs to stop especially when they post and blog about stories that were false and as a bad boy that he is or was he definitely hates the fact that they give him credit for things that did and did not exist!

Also he is a billionaire and he can't continue watch his company stock plummet every time a bad story about him gets out.. Even a bad boy like him cares about his company and money.

And now he feels it's time to settle but on his own terms!

Blair Monore, Blair in Gaelic means plain, and just like her name you could say her background is as plain and simple. Blair comes from a very humble background, and definitely wasn't born or raised with a sliver spoon. Blair works as a barrister in a coffee shop near Zeke's company. They aren't really friends neither are they strangers just in between but Zeke's quest in cleaning up his image leads him to he

Zeke is In need of a contract wife and Blair signs a contract agreeing to give him one. Can Blair really not breach this loveless contract of theirs. He has promised to make her dreams come true with the promise of wealth and a life outside the coffee shop and it's supposed to be a loveless marriage?

A Contracted loveless marriage but with desire and perfect chemistry.

Zeke Armani's P.O.V.

Zeke Armani!"The strict familiar voice radiates throughout the room without delay he stared up and the head of the PR branch storms his office.

What in the hell have been you thinking?”

The sound of a cellphone hitting Zeke Armani desk was nearly as loud as Diane's question. Zeke appeared up from his work to see a very angry girl obvious at him.

“Just what in the hell were you thinking?” Diane repeated, her voice low and dangerous. She motioned to the newspaper. “Do you recognize how challenging I have been working to change your image? And then you go and pull this shit?”

Zeke glanced down at the paper to see the headline: “BILLIONAIRE SEX VIDEO LEAKED”

Wonderful, He has made information again. The trending hashtags ought to be insane, he's honestly going to be listening to a lot from his shareholders!

“That's no longer me Diane, how did they even....,” he said, frowning and staring intently at the video. The video was censored, however it was truly him balls deep in some blonde chick at a bar.

“Shit! Am sorry"

“You bastard,” Diane whispered. She shook her head. Her generally neat bun was coming undone and grey wisps of hair framed her face. “I can’t accept as true with you’d do this.”

“Do what?” Zeke scoffed. “The woman used to be of age and very consenting. It used to be a tryst we both together enjoyed.

“You had been in public couldn't you even suppose to get a room. For a profitable business man like you, should you be controlled by using your libido"Diane hissed via gritted teeth.

“We weren’t supposed to be, but that was half of the fun,” Zeke admitted. He took yet another right seem at the video again. “I suppose her name was Shane or used to be it Sheryln"

“It used to be Shane.”Diane says angrily.

“Oh, yes. I remember.. She used to be pretty something” Zeke smiled with the memory.

“Are you critically now not seeing the trouble here?” Diane asked him, her hand going to her head like she had a headache.

“That I didn’t get their numbers? Or perhaps that there was a photographer at a personal birthday celebration taking pix except consent?”

“No.” Diane narrowed her eyes at him. “It’s that your business is going down the drain and the only way to keep it, is to smooth up your reputation. You tell me that you’ll keep your palms to yourself for a bit and remain out of trouble. And simply when I suppose you're truely changing, you pour gasoline and light a healthy to ruin the whole lot we’ve worked so difficult for.”

“This is not my fault. You stated to preserve a low profile. This was a private party. I don’t even understand how this photo got out.”

Diane rubbed the bridge of her nose. “Getting into a fist battle is now not low profile. Fucking a lady in public is now not low profile and it doesn’t count number what form of party it was. You have been supposed to behave and hold your hands to yourself.

“At least she had a exact time,” Zeke responded with a smirk. He remembered now. It had been a amazing night. He leaned again in his office chair, keeping his cool.

“Right.” Diane glared at him. “Wow. I need to retire so I can get that compensation and retirement charge earlier than this company goes bankrupt due to the fact this mindset and conduct of yours its very gentlemanly.

Infact it's truely boosting sales for you and our stocks!

“This will blow over in a couple of days,” Zeke instructed her. He sounded greater confident than he felt. He’d never viewed Diane this angry. The PR woman was normally the epitome of peace and tranquility, however usually rolling with the punches. Physically, Diane reminded him of his very Italian grandmother, so her being irritated was now not a fantastic experience.

“It will now not ‘blow over.’” She sighed and smoothed her hair lower back into the neat bun at the lower back of her head. “Sales are down. The stock price is going down and the extra I stare at it the greater it plummets. The feedback on our social media platforms and commercials are out of control.”

Even our emails, F******k page, I*******m and even, Twitter is on fire. If you search your name, You're virtually trending for the incorrect reasons, even our newly launched brand is affected. Orders are being again and cancelled, we're critically taking a massive hit on all our subsidiaries...

“It can’t be that bad. It’s never that bad.”

Diane pulled out but every other tablet showing him ledger money owed important points of all their subsidiaries of, Armani Clothing Line, their phone line, the Armani Jewelry line, their electronics line, literally all their businesses have been receiving backlashes. Even the bank they lately obtained below a enterprise takeover!

She showed him calls from the directors and shareholders, emails too from them and this time 10 instances worse than normal and even some threatening to pull out from the Armani industry. Diane pulls out but another phone and starts offevolved reading feedback and tweets.

Zeke shrugged. “There will usually be poor remarks and critiques about me..

“There are over three thousand like that on an advert that solely ran for five hours,” Diane knowledgeable him. “We had to give up running the ad because of the negative comments. Our moderators couldn’t hold up with them.

Zeke felt a cold settle over his shoulders. This should be bad.

“So, we change advertisements. I lay low,” Zeke replied.

Diane shook her head. “We did that remember, barring the board of directors is performed with you. They’re starting to discuss about kicking you out.”

“They can’t do that,” Zeke said, anger heating his voice just slightly. “This is my company. This is my father’s company.”

“They can if you are a detriment to income and their precious stocks.” Diane motioned to the tablet. “Which you are. Your playboy antics are hurting your organization and given the evidence, you don’t care. That story isn’t the first one to blow up given that you were supposed to lay low.”

“The board shouldn’t care about this sort of thing,” Zeke said.

“And if your antics weren’t costing them money, they wouldn’t. You also did not think about how all this might backfire...

“Diane you be aware of this. It's now not my fault the paparazzi are decided to ruin me. Zeke knowledgeable her. "Besides this girls come to me willing and I didn't ask for this. They choose their fifteen minutes of repute and are inclined to use their bodies to get it. I’m not going to say no to a exact time.”

Diane sighed. “I understand you aren’t a horrific guy, however no one else does without me. They just see the headlines. And the headlines aren’t good.”

“What do you know about the board?” Zeke asked, pointedly searching away from the paper. “How a great deal time?”

“Not long. This today's advertising blowup has them all riled. They prefer you gone,” Diane advised him. “And right now, they’re right. You are costing profits.”

“I’m not dropping my company,” Zeke growled. He got up and paced in the back of his desk. “What do I do?”

“Other than resign with what I count on you consider dignity?”

Zeke gave her an annoyed look. “Yes.”

She evaluated him for a moment, her dark eyes looking him over. Once again, he was reminded of the way his grandmother used to seem at him. The solely difference was that Grandmother favored to preserve a timber spoon as a threat.

“I have a answer to our problem,” she told him. “You aren’t going to like it. It’s some thing the board can’t recognize you planned, but if you do it, they will depart you alone. It will let you preserve your company.”

Zeke sat down in the back of his desk. “Tell me.”

“You want to get your lifestyles straightened. Change your image, That playboy picture desires to be erased” Diane told him.

Zeke couldn’t help however let out a rapid laugh. “Okay, it truly is easier said than done. The board technically hates me right now, am currently a liability to them and to the company and at this rate nothing will make them or the world alternate their perceptions about me, besides I magically get married. Once am married and even maybe a family man then possibly they may recognize me again” he says, leaning again in his big workplace chair. His expression modified from one of wry to one of shock and surprise. Probably the shock of bringing out a smart thought like that made him stunned

“See, now that wasn't so difficult now was it?"The slim woman settled into the over-sized leather-based seat going through the desk and acquired comfortable. She crossed her legs at the ankle and as soon as once more smoothed her graying hair returned into her bun.

“Wait what the hell are we even talking about! Anyways as ludicrous as it sounds I in reality am now not searching to settle whenever soon” Zeke said

"Well don't you think it's time you settle, you are like what, 40?"Diane says to him grimacing...

"Am 35 and very properly nevertheless in my prime so do not you call me old. Isn't there any different way to go about this. Besides the place am I going to find a proper female who would not favor to convert my wealth. Besides marriage is a big choice and I don't suppose am geared up for that sacrifice"Zeke said

"It's real you're still in your high and it's additionally genuine that marriage is a huge selection but are you prepared to lose your company. Yes you certainly might not go broke due to the fact you're one of our largest shareholder and your father began this company. But it is also states that if your image and your presence is a fault to the earnings of the equal organisation you may be removed. Yes of path you will nonetheless have get admission to to all the profits made from the business enterprise and subsidiaries but you may not be the CEO of Armani"Diane says to him with a grim appear on her face...

"Your father constructed this organisation from the scratch Zeke and he made certain to place you as the head of the business enterprise however you have been reckless and now your father's efforts to let the Armani industry being run by way of an Armani as chairman and CEO has been destroyed. If you don't make a choice and a cross then you will lose it,” Diane eacknowledged, bowing her head slightly as she slapped him with the cold challenging truth.

"While you were off having fun and no longer preserving your image our rival companies numbers has been going up and yours are going down. Cheap isn’t triumphing anymore. You need humans to choose to buy what you represent. You want people to have faith you. ”

“What’s no longer to trust?” Zeke asked, giving Diane a prevailing smile. His blue eyes clouded.

“That.” She pointed to his grin and then his total body. “You exude self belief and charm. You’re full of effortless sex appeal.”

“And what’s wrong with that?” He requested her, nevertheless giving her the full Zeke Armani’ smile. It had the effect of making girls drop their panties and willingly give themselves to him on a regular basis.

“You prefer to know what’s incorrect with that?” Diane says with a disappointing look, "You Should recognize better Zeke, you're a commercial enterprise man calculate your losses and suppose clever for once!

“You are recognized as a playboy. You have a extraordinary model or actress in your bed each other night. And that was first-class until the company's photograph got dragged into your mess and drama..

“And that’s not me,” Zeke agreed.

Diane stood up from the chair and put her hands on the the front of the desk.

“You hired me, Mr. Armani, to fix the fact that each and every single one of your products is down this year,” Diane instructed him. She was all confidence. “Your manufacturer is at stake, company's photo is at stake, even future investors.. We have competition and if we have to beat the competition, we need to be on top!

"Your repeated scandals and Clash with the press and you usually trending for the incorrect motives is not a excellent look"She finished saying as she stared at him

Zeke evaluated her for a second before speaking. He hated that she was once making sense. The only alternate in the market was once the addition of a new player. Competition has usually been constant and will be and he wants to be at the pinnacle of his game

“So, you prefer me to get married and have a baby,” he repeated back. “What if that’s not what I want? I’m not precisely looking to trade my ways. I instead like a different model or actress in my bed each and every other night.”

“And I’m no longer telling you that you can’t,” Diane replied, standing up straight. “Once you have this set up and human beings trust you again, you can go back to being the bad-boy billionaire. Until then, you have to be the epitome of fatherly love and trust. And that capability no screwing up. I don’t care if it’s in a non-public putting or not. This is all or nothing. You can’t by chance slip up with this.”

She pointedly appeared at the pill that balantly confirmed the video of him. He would have to say goodbye to his fun for a while if he agreed to this. He may want to understand that. If he had a wife and child, there was once no way he could even go to a party where ladies threw themselves at him.

It would be a tough change. He wasn’t simply reducing the sex he had with random beautiful women. He’d be giving it up.

“And if I don’t do this? If I employ anyone else to restoration the brand?”

Diane shrugged. “Your income are down twenty percent this year and dropping. Last year, it was ten. Since the article ran! You can do the math on how long you have before the board kicks you out.”

She was right. Something had to change. As much as he hated it, the exchange used to be going to have to be from him.

Zeke sighed. “And you’re sure? You’re certain that this is the only way to salvage this?”

“We’ve carried out countless market surveys. The human beings who purchase and put on our brand don’t have confidence you. They hate you and see you as a depraved spoiled rich fuckboy, and for this reason don’t believe your brand. But am distinctly sure if you offered condoms, you would be a billionaire.”

“I am a billionaire,” Zeke corrected her.

Diane shrugged. “For how long? Till your trust fund cash runs out and your personal property and wealth receives bought off settling money owed and paying your way thru your losses with breached contracts? What about the investors? The shareholders? Zeke you are now not simply a billionaire, your organisation and subsidiaries homes and feed hundreds of thousands of human beings in New York City if you are that reluctant to abandon and now not see the larger photograph then you are a better fool"She completed

Zeke stood from his desk and stared out the window at the city skyline. It used to be early summer, which meant that all the girls have been out in flowery dresses and beginning to show pores and skin with the hotter weather. His preferred time of year.

His eyes looked over to the picture on his desk. The black and white image held a seven-year-old little boy with his father smiling at him from the background. Zeke remembered that day in his father’s office. It used to be the day that Zeke knew his future used to be with this company. His future was the Armani Empire

His father had constructed this employer from scratch with simply a little loan from the bank, he acquired an hotel which was on the verge of bankruptcy and then he acquired the resort back on track, pulled in greater buyers and from there, With his father’s tough work, the organisation had grown, but it used to be Zeke who’d made it into a billion greenback enterprise. He’d taken his father’s small employer and created a line the world can not do without. Everybody desires to wear an Armani dressmaker or very own a vehicle from Armani motors, adding some banks to the list, hotels, resorts, actual estate. The list nonetheless goes on , the Armani Empire has it's fingers embeded in all the businesses...

The one component he had continually been proud of was being able to grow his father's legacy into something more, he had hoped he too would construct a legacy for himself too however it all looks so bleak right now. His household legacy that is supposed to be run by using an Armani sitting on the CEO function looks to be out of the option.

Diane is right, the shareholders can hold an specific meeting all through the next board assembly to cast off him out of his position. He will nevertheless experience the benefits and profits however it hits different when he's the head and ceo. You’re sure?” Zeke grew to become from the frame and appeared out the window at the city below.

“Positive,” Diane guaranteed him. He grew to become slowly. “And it’ll all be for show?”

Diane shrugged. “If that’s what you want. Just get your social existence straightened and out of the media and exchange the people's perspective. Also end trending for the wrong motives our shares have suffered enough!

“That might be harder than it sounds,” Zeke replied. He alternatively preferred his wanton ways. They were a phase of who he was. How could he per chance be with solely one woman? It sounded like torture.

But dropping his business enterprise was once worse!

“It’s solely for a couple years,” Diane reminded him. “Once the public trusts you again, you can go back to your ancient ways, you’ll have to be a little greater discreet.

Zeke sighed. This wasn’t going to be an effortless thing to do. He preferred his life. He preferred knowing that he ought to have any girl he wanted. His world revolved round girls and his company. He was once going to have to provide one of them up.

“You referred to something about kids?” Zeke asked, raising an eyebrow at diane“You’re sure simply getting a spouse won’t do it? I need a kid?”

I Dont be aware of for sure however I think you want some serious responsiblity “What you want is exchange Zeke. I think having a youngster will be a massive accountability and I be aware of for sure you won't go again to your old existence style.

The greater he regarded the notion of the public trusting him to having a baby, the more it made sense. He knew that his actions had been hurting the company. He wished to alternate what the public notion of him. He wanted to be a trusted source, not simply a supplier.

He also knew that if he was once going to deliver a child into the world, he was once going to be a father to it. The mother should come and go, however the baby would most without a doubt be his. He would make positive that child had the entirety he/she could ever want.

He seemed at the image again and idea of his very own father. The man had been stern but kind. Zeke as a substitute favored the notion of raising a son like his father had raised him. It used to be something he could get behind. He’d never truely estimated himself a father, however that didn’t mean he couldn’t be an magnificent one.

Just because he wasn’t appropriate at sticking with female didn’t imply he couldn’t be proper at sticking with kids. Kids had been special.

“How will we persuade my new wife?” he asked Diane “Marrying me is handy money, however having a baby? That’s a little extra complicated.”

“It’s not like you have a tough time convincing girls to sleep with you,” Diane replied with a shrug. “It’s no longer a big step from there.”

She had a point. It was rather ironic, actually. For the past few years, he’d been doing the entirety he ought to to forestall having a child. He’d gone out of his way to make sure he didn’t knock up one of his one-night stands looking for an convenient meal-ticket in the form of toddler support. Now, he was once going to have to strive for that specific outcome.

He seemed at the photograph of him and his father again. Zeke could do this. He may want to find any one that would play the part. And he would love the child. Staying away from women wouldn’t be the stop of the world. And if it would retailer his business, he would do anything.

Time held for a moment, the way it constantly did proper before he made a massive decision.

“Okay.” He hated the way his belly twisted. “I’ll do it. For the company.”

“Excellent, sir,” Diane said with a challenging smile. “I have a list of possible brides for you. They’re all in advertising, so they understand what to do. I can have the agreement and a pre-nup to you by way of the cease of the day.”

Zeke nodded....

“I would suggest deciding on anybody that you get alongside well with, so I’ll have you do some interviews first. You need someone brilliant and motherly You like her and most importantly, the public should like her. She needs to be excellent with kids..

The phrase, “bright and motherly" stuck out in Zeke’s mind. Good with kids. He regarded away from his desk and at once at Diane.

A idea was already turning in his head. “Someone who is candy and kind, loves kids, and would seem to be correct on a billboard with him due to the fact as soon as news gets out about them the reporters are going to have a discipline day!

Diane nodded. “As any one who has regarded you lengthy enough I don't assume you need another bimbo caught to you. We need any individual with a motherly vibe and of route she wants to be attractive, but greater girl-next-door and much less your regular Barbie-doll. The market need to consider that she’s a actual person, so in all likelihood any person from humble beginnings...

Zeke smiled. He already knew the perfect girl for the job. Someone he bought alongside with and was once possibly the most cheerful individual he’d ever met.

“I won’t need your candidates,” Zeke informed her. “I have someone in mind. As long as I can convince her, she’ll be perfect.”