All Chapters of Badgering My Billionaire Bully: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

“What the hell happened?” Gavin came into the room with Scarlett quick on his heels. Odin was awake on the bed, but Algernon was sitting on him, refusing to let him up.“Cruz punched me out,” Odin laughed hysterically. “He’s mad because I told Presley the truth about how he’s not really going to marry her and it’s all a big prank.”“No, you giant asshole,” Cruz grunted from where he leaned against a wall, “I punched him because we found out he tried to sell Presley off to a mobster.”Odin’s head snapped up, “What?”“You told Liborio Bartoli you could make your sister be his mistress in exchange for your debt being paid off.”“How did you find out?”The blood caking Odin’s mouth made Presley grimace but then his question caught up from her ears to her brain.“You really did?”“I told you, you bitch, I hate your fucking guts. If a mobster wants to make you his sex slave in exchange for wiping my debt off, who am I to say no?”“What the hell is wrong with you?” Gavin asked clutching his

Presley stood staring at the water lapping gently on the shore. It was quite possibly the calmest the sea had been since she arrived. It mocked her. While everything seemed right in nature, her entire world was imploding all around her.“Say something,” Cruz said from beside her, standing close enough she could feel the heat from his body and yet it felt like the entire world was between them. “Tell me you don’t think I’m a pervert for wanting you when you were seventeen or nineteen or twenty-one. Tell me you’re not going to leave me before we’ve even really gotten started.”She remained quietly watching the shoreline, the echoes of people laughing as they strolled the pathway between her patio and the beach, straining her ears.“Presley,” he stepped closer, his fingers reaching to grip her baby finger, “Ladybird, talk to me.”“Was it a prank?”“What?”“When you called your friend to offer the job, was it a prank?”“What do you mean a prank?”“My entire life, or at least from the time

Presley was wrapped up in Cruz’s arms at her suggestion of them making up when a knock on the door made them both groan again.“Seriously. Our friends are not kind.” Cruz complained as he moved to look through the peephole and then froze. He looked at Presley and put his finger to his lips shaking his head.“What?” she mouthed at him.He looked to the patio as if contemplating opening the curtains and going out of the room via the wall Algernon and her brother climbed earlier in the week. He grabbed his phone and sent a text to his security team, showing her, he asked them to come immediately. He took Presley by the hand and pulled her into the bathroom when a second knock at the door was harder than the first.He whispered, “it’s Liborio himself. He’s at the door. My security team is not on the floor, and I don’t even know if they’re in the building. Christ, I don’t usually travel with a huge team because I’m pretty low profile most of the time. I’m a single guy who doesn’t date and

Presley stared at Cruz while he paced the room frantically.“It’s insane.”The first words he’d spoken since she’d explained why she asked for tinned fish were not the most comforting of words, but she understood why he was, quite frankly, panicking.“So crazy it might work?” she asked with hope.“No. I mean you are ready to rival Ramona for crazy chick of the year. And the award goes to,” he waved at her as if presenting a trophy.“Nice. There is no need to be rude.”“You want to prank a mafia don!” he snapped at her. “I said to use your creative mind to come up with a plan to get us out of this shit Odin dragged us into and instead you want to prank him?”“Yes.”“No.”“Yes.”“With tinned fish?”“Among other things.”“Such as?”“My mind is running now,” she bounced in the bed happily. “First I’ll make the fishy perfume so when I ask him to take me to dinner tomorrow night, I smell like my coochie has rotted.”“Yeah, we’ve been over this one,” he shook his head. “I don’t want you goin

Entering the room after her chat with the girls, she immediately noted Cruz was not there. Considering she’d snuck out on him while he slept without leaving him a note, she knew she didn’t have an argument to win by his disappearance. Yet disappointment coursed through her veins he wasn’t there to talk to about the things she planned for the day.Deciding to take a quick shower in the hopes he’d be back by the time she was done, she gathered her belongings and made her way into the bathroom. She left the door open so she could hear him if he came back and acknowledged it was kind of funny to think of how much she fought him on the door and now she was not even using it.All her ideas were running through her brain at a pace she could barely keep up with. The more absurd the idea, the more she was leaning into it. She knew at some point she was going to have to face reality but this pretending she was in control, acting like she was taking charge was making her less fearful of the real