The Billionaire's Temptation

The Billionaire's Temptation

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Par:  Hemme-E  En cours
Langue: English
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PLEASE DON'T READ (Under major editing*) He stepped closer if that was even possible at this point. "I want you, Melanie." He rasped beneath his breath, his gaze falling to mouth. I hated the way I shivered visibly at his words. "So much." He ran his thumb along the inside of my elbow, closing his lips over mine again. One minute we were trying to kiss slowly. The next he was parting my lips and we were back to devouring each other. Our lips stayed locked even as he moved his fingers higher and higher. **** Melanie Steele and Damon Trent were practically the two opposite poles of a magnet. They had almost nothing in common. She liked her solitude, he liked being in the spotlight. She loved living for herself and being comfortable. He was in a constant competition with nobody. She hated attention, he craved it like the oxygen he breathed. They could never work... Or could they? When Damon finds out that he had to be married to get possession of his late father's properties, he let his friends talk him into putting up an ad in the News Paper and making a public spectacle to look for his future wife. What he didn't see coming was Melanie signing up for the competition. Somehow along the way, lines are not just crossed they're being completely erased. He's broken all his rules with her and she's thrown way her sanity when it comes to him. They find themselves battling an attraction that was slowly becoming something more. What happens when Damon's secret gets out? Would Melanie be able to forgive him? Or will their story end before it even has a chance to begin?

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Chapter 1

MELANIEI was in deep trouble. Glancing down at my wrist watch, I winced at how late it was. I was supposed to meet Trish at Starbucks about forty five minutes ago, but I'd been too engrossed in my writing to remember that we had agreed to meet up for lunch.Increasing my pace and stretching my legs as far as they could go, I tried to think of a good excuse. I could tell her that I'd forgotten but that would just leave her disappointed. In the end, I decided to go with the truth. Trish knew me too well for her to believe any of the stories that I would make up.She was my only friend.I wasn't even kidding. I could count the number of people interacted with in just one hand. See, I wasn't the social type. I wish I could say that it was because of one trauma that I'd passed through to at least excuse my behavior, but sadly it wasn't.I just didn't like people. End of story.Pausing for a few seconds to catch my breath, I pushed the door to the café open and tried to stealthily walk in.

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Amaya Gómez
Good book but we need more updates please
2023-07-26 12:53:10
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Dona
Amazing but the are daily?
2023-05-30 07:15:24
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Chapter 1

MELANIEI was in deep trouble. Glancing down at my wrist watch, I winced at how late it was. I was supposed to meet Trish at Starbucks about forty five minutes ago, but I'd been too engrossed in my writing to remember that we had agreed to meet up for lunch.Increasing my pace and stretching my legs as far as they could go, I tried to think of a good excuse. I could tell her that I'd forgotten but that would just leave her disappointed. In the end, I decided to go with the truth. Trish knew me too well for her to believe any of the stories that I would make up.She was my only friend.I wasn't even kidding. I could count the number of people interacted with in just one hand. See, I wasn't the social type. I wish I could say that it was because of one trauma that I'd passed through to at least excuse my behavior, but sadly it wasn't.I just didn't like people. End of story.Pausing for a few seconds to catch my breath, I pushed the door to the café open and tried to stealthily walk in.
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Chapter 2

DAMONI raised my head when I heard a knock on my front door. I frowned, hoping it was not the woman I'd been with throughout last night and in the early hours of this morning. I knew I had made myself clear when I'd told her that it was a one time thing. I always make myself clear from the start.Looking at my reflection in the mirror, I picked up my tie and began heading for the door. My eyebrows drew together when I saw who it was through the one way mirror. She didn't normally show up this early."How come you're here so early?" I asked after opening the door. I took in the way her chest seemed to be rising and falling faster than usual.Did she actually...run?She trolled past me, heading for what had to be becoming her favorite room in my house. I caught the sounds of spoons clinking and pondered for a moment if Shayla had actually lost her mind."Shayla?" I called after her, closing the door and following her to the kitchen. I glanced down at my wrist watch to make sure that it
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CHAPTER 3

MELANIEToday was one of the rare days that I choose to take a walk in the streets. Sometimes, especially when I'm faced with writer's block, I just lock up my apartment and breeze about, almost always ending up at the central park.The weather was cold, which was expected since rain had only been falling few minutes ago. I tried to walk as composedly as possible in my ankle boots, avoiding tiny pools of muddy water where I could.Tucking my hands in my coat pockets, I breathed in the fresh scent of rain. It was one of the things that I seemed to love.The smell of rain.Probably because my mother and I had a ritual of playing in the rain when I'd been growing up. At least until she was forcefully taken from me by a ghastly accident.I pushed down the lump in my throat, my eyes almost instantly stinging. I'd come home from school and she hadn't been in the house the way she always was just for my sake, even though she was fully employed.My dad had returned home hours later to inform m
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Chapter 4

DAMONI gripped the neck of the bottle in front of me and lifted it to my mouth, enjoying the way the liquid burned my throat as it rushed down. It was six days already since the day I'd found out that I had to get married in less than three months and stay married for three years. My life had taken a dive since then."It's not fair for your dad to have tried to control you like that." Shayla voiced out from where she sat beside Jake. We went out to a club like we did every Friday night. I finally decided to disclose what had gone down in the meeting I'd had with my father's lawyer.Their reactions weren't surprising to me. They didn't know the kind of man my father had been. He hadn't wanted me to make a name for myself. Luckily, I wasn't someone who could be pushed around. I'd grown up trying to live up to his expectations as the only child.It didn't take long for me to realize I would never be able to match his expectations of me. He would always see me as less than him. After It
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Chapter 5

MELANIEI narrowed my eyes, wondering why he was headed in my direction. Trish was saying something about how crowded the bar was even though we weren't exactly that late but I wasn't paying her any attention. My blood heated in my veins and I tried to remind myself that he was like any other person I'd come across. There was nothing special about him."Oh my gosh," Trish gushed beside me, gripping my arm like it was a lifeline. I turned my attention to her. Her eyes, smoky with make-up, were rounded and her lips were wide open with surprise. I already knew what had gotten her in such a state of glee. "Damon Trent is coming right this way," She reduced her voice to what I'm sure she thought was a whisper. "And he's staring right at you."I winced when Damon came to stand in front of me right after she had just finished speaking. I had no doubt that he must have heard caught onto her statement. I was going to kill Trish and then burn her dead body one of these days. There was nothing a
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Chapter 6

Damon"She doesn't want to have kids yet." Jake stated bluntly, running his hand through his hair, a frustrated look on his face. My eyebrows arched in surprise at his words and I watched in concern as he lifted his drink by the bottleneck and drew it to his mouth. I released a deep breath, not quite sure how to respond to that.He'd messaged me earlier and asked if we could meet up for drinks. I had known just from how curt his text was that he wasn't meeting up to just drink. There was something going on. And I'd been right. I had thought that Shayla had already discussed whatever her problem had been a week and half ago with him. It appeared that I had been completely wrong and she was only just now opening up.I tilted my head to the side, trying to mull his words over in my head. If there was anyone I knew who was going to be a wonderful mother to her kids, it was Shayla. There wasn't a woman I'd come across who was as amazing with kids as she was. I'd seen her with Jake nieces a
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Chapter 7

MelanieI was a bit reluctant to answer that final question and I wasn't exactly sure why. Shayla had already put me through every single thing that I was apparently supposed to do. I didn't think I was incapable of reason but she must have thought so with the way she had been behaving while trying to prep me.I already told myself that I was not going to take the contest seriously. Why should I? I had no interest in getting married to Damon Trent. And I didn't think that was ever going to change. Then again I've never been one to do something half-baked. If something was worth doing, then to me it was worth doing well.Especially since I could tell that Damon Trent didn't want me here."I guess I could just tell you the answer I'd been prepared to give earlier," I heard myself saying, deciding to be completely honest at the last minute. "But I know that's bull." And Damon would definitely know it too. I raised my shoulder, trying to be casual. My eyes cut to Damon and unsurprisingly,
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Chapter 8

*Damon*I found it really funny that I could live for almost five years in a city and not so much as hear about someone but suddenly I meet them and I can't seem to stop seeing them wherever I go. Especially since I desperately wanted to. She was following me. Or maybe I was the one following her. The point was that one of us definitely had to be following the other.That was the only explanation.There was no way she could suddenly start showing up everywhere that I was. I had frequented this gym for the past three months and not once have I laid my eyes on her. I would have known it if I had. I wouldn't meet someone as intriguing as she was and then forget about it. I hated it. The way she seemed to suddenly barge into my life and start popping up everywhere that I turn to.I inhaled a calming breath and fisted my hand at my sides. I threw my arm and punched the boxing bag in front of me, trying to not take a glance in her direction and failing woefully. When had she registered her
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Chapter 9

*Melanie*I stared at my phone, not sure what it was that I was looking at. I had been sent an email about some readjustments in the contest rules. Something about not being in any entanglement or relationship while we were still part of the contest. I wondered if Damon instigated the new rule after what happened the other day at the gym.I had no doubt he probably thought that I was following him. Even I was confused as to how we had managed to live without so much as bumping into each other but now it seemed like it was all it could do. I decided that I was going to add some activity that was going to ensure I got out of the house and the best I had come up with was securing a gym membership.I figured that a gym was probably the most social place I could find where people didn't actually interact and chit chat. Not to mention the annoyingly huge amount that I'd paid was sure to get me out of the house thrice every week.I dropped my phone on my bed and continued with folding my clo
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Chapter 10

*Damon*She was doing it again. Buttering my friends up. This time it was just Shayla. I narrowed my eyebrows at Shayla, trying and failing to keep my irritation in check. She wasn't doing anything wrong. If anything she was probably doing something right trying to know the contestants on a more personal level. It just irked me that she would become friendly with this contestant out of them all.I felt like Melanie was getting relaxed and familiar with them in a way that she never would with me. I felt her letting her guards back up as if to prove my point. The smile that had been on her face just seconds ago was suddenly nowhere to be seen. She seemed to instinctively take a cautious step backwards and stand up straighter."Help me with these would you?" Shayla said with more attitude than she was used to displaying. I arched an eyebrow when she literally dumped the files she'd been holding on my arms. She gave me a smug look, turning to fix her gaze on Melanie. "Damon will show you
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