All Chapters of The Billionaires Club: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Beaumont Equestrian Center spent a lot of money on a fire system that was tested and maintained several times a year, but the one, and only time they needed to use the system, the fire raged undeterred. Where were the wet sprinklers and the alarm? Why hadn't the fire triggered anything? Was the system defective? Celine realized she was going to have to turn the sprinklers on manually. There was a lever on the side of the building, where she could turn the sprinklers on and hopefully put out the fire.Coughing and gasping from the smoke, Celine ran the length of the stables. The beam of her flashlight bounced across the ground until she found what she was looking for, the manual release. All she needed to do was pull the lever. Where was the lever? Did she have it wrong? No, she was positive this was the place, but there was no lever. Looking closer, she saw the lever had been torn off. What the hell was going on? Had someone accidentally done this and not reported it, or was this int

Smiling reassuringly at Celine, Ethan took the empty glass of water, set it down, and then turned in his seat to face Sebastian. “My name is Ethan Sommer. You must be Sebastian.” Dismissing Sebastian, Ethan turned toward Celine, a gentle smile lighting up his eyes. “Better?” Ethan asked.Celine nodded, grateful someone in this insane asylum was staying levelheaded. She, too, was trying to stay calm, and she took slow, shallow breaths. She didn’t want to start coughing again, but the tension in the room made her anxious, making it difficult to control her breathing.“Celine, we are going to take this outside so you can calm down, okay?” Ethan said and handed her the call button in case she needed help.He gave some kind of look at Collette, who sighed heavily. “He’s right, let’s take it outside.” Ethan and Collette walked outside leaving Sebastian standing there looking down at her.Sebastian reclaimed his seat next to Celine. Having him this close to her made her fingers twitch to tou

When Celine lost everything, it altered her focus by clearing away the distracting clutter that her avarice wrought until what remained were her priorities, well-defined and finite—her father, sister, and herself. Clinging to all she had left in the world, Celine had no illusions that she could safeguard her most precious people. Therefore, she needed immediate access to power to protect herself and her family. Her mom used to say the best way to take down a colossal power was to undermine it from within, meaning infiltrate and ingratiate, gather trust and power, and then turn on those who bestowed it. The fastest way to do this was to marry a billionaire.Celine was a phoenix rising from the ashes of her scorched barn, reborn and remade into a vessel of justice. Her first step in her quest for vengeance, catch herself a billionaire, which was why she sat on Sebastian’s desk, swinging her lovely bare leg. Trying to remember everything Kim had taught her about flirting.Down with the

Silk and sequence hugged her curves in a dazzling silhouette. She knew the dress was beautiful, but now that she was out in public, she wished she had selected something that blended into the crowd. She could feel the unwanted attention of lingering eyes like phantom caresses as she strained the slit in her floor-length dress, gliding around the dancefloor in Sebastian’s arms. Celine prayed she wouldn’t twist an ankle; it wasn’t a lack of agility on her part. She was a decent dancer. The concern was Sebastian. He was distracting her.It started in the backseat of the car on the way to their first event as a couple. He took one look at her and closed the gap between them. “You look amazing, wife.”, Sebastian said.Celine could smell whisky on his breath. She raised an eyebrow and wondered if he would be a problem. “I’m not your wife yet, Mr. Gale.”She reached for her seatbelt and fastened it. “Are you going to sit here?” He was inches from her in the center seat instead of the customa

The car pulled away from the disastrous evening that was their first public appearance as a couple. Sebastian sat in his seat. A rigid and unmoving rock on the outside, but she wasn’t deceived. She could see the heat in his eyes. Eyes that led deep down to the core of him that was currently building in pressure. All it would take was a little mishandling, and he would erupt.But Celine had a few questions, a few hundred questions. Therefore, she would have to risk asking. She had a feeling this strange man, this cousin, who had never existed until today, could be the wild card that rearranged their carefully laid plans and could change the difficulty from moderate to extreme.Carefully, Celine asked her first question. “I didn’t know you had a cousin.” And left it hanging out there, open-ended. Hoping that it would initiate the story that lay behind their encounter with the strange man who approached her in the outdoor hallway.Sebastian gazed out the tinted window, and they sat in si