All Chapters of One Night Stand With The Billionaire Boss : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

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Alice“Red or white?” Saxon asks.It’s Sunday evening, and we’re at Saxon and Catie’s house, about to have dinner. She’s baked some focaccia, and we’re currently dipping chunks of it in olive oil, salt, and dukkah.I look at where he and Catie are sitting opposite me and Kip at their dining table, noting that neither of them has a wine glass in front of them, and say, “I’m happy to stick to soft drinks.”“Aw,” Catie says, “I don’t mind if you have a glass of wine. I’m living vicariously at the moment. Saxon won’t let me have mayo, soft cheese, alcohol, or too much coffee. He’s like Hitler with food and drink at the moment.”“Harsh,” he says. “But probably true.”Kip chuckles. “I’m happy with Sprite, too.”“All right,” Saxon replies good-naturedly, and he pours us all a glass from the bottle he brought out for himself and his wife.“So,” Catie says, picking up her glass and sipping it, “what have you two been up to this weekend?”“Playing Scrabble,” Kip says without missing a beat. Sax
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“Oh my God, I’m so full,” I declare after I finish the last mouthful. “That was divine.”Saxon gathers up the plates, looks at his brother, and gestures to the kitchen with his head. “Come on, bro. Let’s do the dishes and let the girls put their feet up.”Kip chuckles. “Yeah, all right.” He gets to his feet and kisses the top of my head before following Saxon out to the kitchen, carrying a pile of dishes.Catie looks at me and smiles. “Would you like to see the nursery?”“Oh, I’d love to!”“It’s not finished yet,” she says as we get to our feet, “but I’ve started getting a few bits for it.” She leads the way along the corridor to the other end of the house. “That’s our room,” she says, “and here’s the nursery.”We go into the room. It’s empty apart from a table covered with magazines and swatches. The carpet is covered with newspaper. The wall is divided by a dado rail. She’s painted it light blue above the rail and light green below it, so it looks like the sky and grass. I can see t
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We haven’t known each other that long. We’ve only slept together a handful of times. We’re not even dating properly.I can’t have fallen in love with him.I blink and realize he’s looking at me because someone’s asked me a question, and they’re all waiting for me to answer. “Sorry, what?”He grins. “Saxon asked you who you’re interviewing next on your podcast.”“Oh shit, sorry.” I try to bump-start my brain and steer it away from the thought of saying I do to Kip Chevalier. “I’m talking to the guy who wrote the Ruffpunk series on Wednesday.”“I haven’t read that,” Saxon says.“I have,” Kip tells him. “You’d love it. It’s a historical fantasy set in a Tudor steampunk world, where Shakespeare invents a new form of magic using poetry and casts spells with his words. It’s fantastic, and it’s won loads of awards. It’s quite a coup to get the author on.”“I’ll definitely listen in,” Saxon says. “I’d like to read that.”“She did an AMA on Reddit,” Kip says. “She had so many questions.”“Most
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KipMy heart is banging on my ribs, but I make myself sit still as I study Alice’s face in the semi-darkness while she strokes my cheek.I don’t like her talking about this being our last night together, but I’m not yet sure what I can do about it, and the answer isn’t going to come to me sitting in the car. I’m wasting valuable time that could be spent in bed. All I can do is show her how I feel about her, and hope that she misses me so much she can’t bear to be apart from me.I study her mouth and watch her lips part and the tip of her tongue emerge to moisten them. She’s right that I’ve tried to be gentle after she told me how she was so unused to being with a man. I felt more than a tad guilty that I shocked her, and so I’ve spent the past couple of days taking my time to make love to her, and reining in the darker desires that threaten to rise when she’s in my arms. But her words,Give me everything you’ve got, make me instantly hard.Unbuckling myself, I shift in the seat to face
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AliceI’m already regretting teasing him like that. As soon as the words left my mouth, I felt him stiffen. I can tell he doesn’t want to talk about this ending tonight. And I suppose that’s fair enough—why spoil the last hours we have together? Still, I’m not quite sure why he’s glowering.“Are you angry with me?” I ask as we get to his bedroom.“No.” He shucks his boxer-briefs, his erection jutting toward me, apparently eager for some action. “I’m just conscious we’ve got a lot to get through.”“What do you mean?”He pulls the duvet off the bed and tosses it onto the floor. “You told me that if you ever dated someone for real, you didn’t want to look like a fool.”“Yes… but—”“I promised I’d show you everything I know so you’re ready for when you meet that other man.” His eyes gleam.I give him a wry look. “Kip…”“Get on the bed,” he says.My eyes widen. His lips curve up, just a tiny bit.He points at the bed.“All right,” I mutter, and I climb on.“Not like that,” he says as I go
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KipI’m not sure what happened at the end there. I’d held my climax in for so long that I was shaking with the sheer effort of not coming. And when I did, I think I actually shifted into an alternate dimension. Or maybe I died for a few seconds before being hauled back into this world blinking like a new babe. Whatever happened, it felt as if it went on forever, and now I feel faint and exhausted and dizzy and elated all rolled into one.“You sucked me dry,” I tell Alice. “I must look all desiccated and withered like an Egyptian mummy.”She giggles and strokes my face. “You’re a god in the bedroom. I’m the luckiest girl in the world.”I lower onto my elbows—carefully, shakily, afraid of collapsing on top of her and then suffocating her because I’m unable to move—and kiss her. A slow, luxurious, heart-achingly tender kiss now all my passion and energy is spent.Then I lift my head and look at her. “Don’t go,” I say.Her expression softens as if she’s been expecting this. “Kip…”“Stay an
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I shake my head. My chest is hurting so much that for a moment I wonder whether the coronary I foretold earlier has actually come to pass. But it’s just my throat muscles clenching, locked in a spasm of grief that I fight to hold in.I don’t know whether she truly meant that, or if she said it to make both of us feel better. It must be the latter? Surely I’m not the only one here who’s fallen in love?I look into her eyes. They plead with me not to say it. And they shine with all the emotion she’s trying to hold in.Clearly, I’m not the only one.There is no obvious solution. The path ahead is blocked by brambles, and I can’t see my way clear. I can’t control this situation, any more than I could control what happened with Christian. For the first time in years, panic rises inside me at my impotence, a word no man ever wants to encounter.I take a deep, shaky breath, and blow it out slowly. Alice has feelings for me, and I need to take consolation from that, and hope that the way ahea
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AliceKip’s voice breaks, right at the end. Rain dances on the windscreen, and the light that comes through it casts a reflection of the rivulets over his face. It makes it look as if he’s crying. He’s not, but I can see he’s very emotional.We sit silently for a moment, just listening to the rain. Although I know it would still be incredibly hard, in the long run it would be easier for me if we parted now, and we agreed not to talk again.But looking at him, it’s impossible not to think back to last night, and that moment when he trembled with passion because he wanted me so badly. I don’t want to lose him either. And I can’t bring myself to insist.“All right,” I say softly. “I’ll message you later.”The relief on his face almost makes me cry. “Thank you,” he says, and he kisses me again.“I’d better go now.” I give him a quick hug, then get out of the car, pulling the hood of my jacket up over my hair.Despite the rain, he gets out too and takes my case out of the boot for me. Then
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AliceI stare at my mother. “We haven’t said that to each other. I haven’t known him that long, Mum.”“Okay, let me rephrase it. Are youinlove with him?”Totally. Crazily. Head-over-heels.“I’m trying not to think about it,” I reply.“Why?”“Mum…”“I know you don’t want to have this conversation,” she says, “but we’re going to have it.”Something twists inside me. “Please, don’t.”“Alice, you’re a sweet, sweet girl. I know how much you’ve given up to look after me. You’ve missed out on the end of your schooling, on university life, on having a normal job, and on dating.”“I don’t want—”“Alice,” she says firmly, and I close my mouth. “Please, let me speak. I haven’t argued with you because, well, I haven’t really had an option. I can’t live on my own, and we haven’t had the money to pay for someone to look after me.”“And you’d hate that anyway.”“I can’t deny that. And of course, maybe most importantly, I love having you home. You’re the light of my life, sweetheart. You have a beaut
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My phone buzzes in the pocket of my jeans. I roll onto my back and, wiping my eyes, take it out.Kip:Has Charlie gone? How are you doing?I sigh.Me:Yes, she’s gone. I’m okay.I hesitate before I send it. It would be best if I didn’t tell him about our conversation, but it’s at that moment that I realize he’s the closest thing to a best friend that I have, and I miss him, and I want to talk to him.Me: I just had an argument with Mum. Well, a disagreement, anyway.Kip: Aw, sweetheart. What about?Me: I’m sure you can guess.Kip: Ah. I’m so sorry.Me: She feels bad, and I don’t know what to say to her. She wants me to have a normal life, and we both know that’s impossible.Kip: Maybe. Maybe not.My shoulders sag.Me: I don’t want to argue with you as well.Kip: We’re not arguing, we’re discussing. It’s what couples do.That makes my breath catch in my throat.Me: We’re not a couple.Kip: You can deny it all you like. The fact is that I want to be with you and you want to be with me. We
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