PROLOGUE
Sleeping With The Forbidden Billionaire
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Madeline Bailey POV *
"This will never happen again,”
I stressed the words hard enough, as I stepped inside the presidential suite he had booked for the night.
“Agreed.
Come in,”
He raised his glass in the air like a single toast before taking a sip.
A cocky grin on his face.
“I want you to step down from Mr. Meyers project.
I want that,”
Demanding my request, I slid out of my trench coat.
Prepared for tonight.
“You mean, you want the tender for your company, so you want me to step down voluntarily?
Okay, agreed
Even though I hate to lose, your worth it.
But it will always be me vs you.
Bailey's Vs Harrington.
Right?”
He stated the facts, with a cool tone.
That's the thing about him.
Mr. Xander Harrington, the twenty-nine-year-old Billionaire, the CEO of number one business in the hotel chain industry.
Printed suits, that f**k me eyes everywhere he goes.
The playboy reputation attached to everything he does.
He is a womanizer, but can't deny the fact that he is the best when it comes down to business.
No one can beat him.
At least I couldn't.
Every time, he bets on a tender for his company, he owns it.
Not to forget the fact, he sits opposite to me in every boardroom.
Winning against me.
He is the CEO of our rival company.
But here I was, calling the deal.
“This will never happen again, Mr. Harrington,”
I stressed again, as he took a step forward.
“That you are sleeping with me to get the project for your company?
Understood, Ms. Bailey”
He nodded, a serious business tone which he used in the board meetings.
“No one should know.
If my father learns about this.
He will kill us both,”
I whimpered, frustrated at the thought.
He was one person my so-called father, Howie, hated.
One man I should never even think about…
But I did try
“Do you think I care?
If you think so, then you don't know me at all,”
He stated, an arrogance in his voice.
He didn't care about anything.
If he had, we wouldn't have been here.
Because no way the billionaire would come up to me to ask me to spend a night with him, even willing to lose some millions for his company.
Telling me he gets what he wants and that he wanted me.
“Still, I'm his only daughter.
Ten years your junior.
So take some shame,”
A sarcastic grin formed on my lips as I said that.
“Last time I checked, eighteen was the legal age according to the law.
Involving with someone less than eighteen, a minor, would get me into trouble.
That's not you.
You're an adult in my eyes.
Moreover, you are a beautiful woman.
I'll take no shame in wanting you,”
He stated again, as he took a step further.
Getting closer to me.
His eyes transfixing me…
“I have some rules,”
I blurted out…
Tensed
“I'm listening” He added, his lips forming a thin line
“No kissing”
I spoke sternly , my eyes trying to look away from his gaze which had captured me.
“Your loss, not mine.
Next?”
He ordered,
“I don't want you looking at me.
Especially not eye to eye,”
I stated, losing my sanity.
“Then I'll f**k you from behind.
Next ?”
He asked, like he was going through some business deal.
The clauses in it.
I swallowed hard as I continued.
“The minute we are done.
I'm leaving.
Or you will.
Not even a second-long I want to be in your company”
His lips curled up, hearing me.
“Anything else?” He asked, his voice sluggish.
“This will be a secret” I breathed out the words, suddenly feeling the air thickens.
“Yes, it will be.
Off course.
I'm not a man who will kiss and tell.
But Ms. Bailey.
I thought this was going to be just one night,”
He raised his eyes, like he was confused.
“Yes.
Just this one night,”
I murmured, as he took a few steps closer to me.
Suddenly I could feel his cologne, his hot breath on my skin.
His tall figure looking down at me.
Consuming me.
“But you stated rules like we are going to do this.
Again and again.
Again…” He smirked.
“Also I have some rules of my own”
He added, his thumb coming forward to brush my shivering lips!
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INTRODUCTION :
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Xander Harrington, the richest billionaire who was into the hotel chain industry.
The playboy, CEO, and founder of Harrington group of industries, the rival to our business.
He always won over us.
Always made sure he did.
He looked like a sin, when he used to sit in the boardroom.
Having all the control it takes to get anything and everything done as per his needs.
When he confessed he wanted me.
I laughed.
But he didn't find it funny.
I told him, my father would kill us if I went against him…
It was always been that way...
I didn't share a typical loving father-daughter relationship.
My so-called father, Mr. Bailey, was very controlling.
He had me trapped in a way, I had no choice but to obey him.
But I knew what kind of cunning fox he was, he would hurt people who would cross him.
Howie Bailey, the man I called dad, hated Xander, that he couldn't stand to even hear his name.
I feared my father, to be honest,
But Xander didn't care.
He liked the game, those secrets moments where he will possess me in those arms.
Lust full eyes, a burning passion.
The forbidden taste of sin.
It was intriguing in the beginning.
The harder I tried to deny the attraction, the deeper it grew.
I had sworn off men from my life, I was already holding on to the bad past that still breathed through me.
And men didn't sit well on my skin…
But when I Cross my path with Xander…
I betrayed my own self.
They say when the devil starts to tempt, you burn.
And so did I.
I burned for the man I should have never wished to have.
Let alone screw him like there was nothing beyond us.
I loved the thrill, the idea that I was doing something my father hated.
Xander liked the chase.
He always did.
The playboy billionaire soon had me in his bed, wrapped.
To secure my already broken heart, I called the deal.
Rules for our arrangement.
But can those lines be kept?
What happens if we cross them?
I am broken, been trapped since the last year.
One mistake, changed my whole life.
I'm looking for my missing mother.
With a question hanging in my mind,"Is she alive?"
I'm still waiting to find her.
To know anything about her.
Haunting past , a loss which is still grieving...
Moreover, a bad mistake which my father holds against me.
While him?
Xander Harrington looked handsome in his three-piece suit, but deep down he was as broken as I was.
He had dark secrets that could tear us apart even before we get any closer.
His past was knocking back on the door, with death threats and stalkers at the door.
there was a piece of him which he always hid...
a darkness inside him, which he always masked up.
lies.
Too many of them.
It was a risk.
But we still found our way to one and other.
To save the last few pieces of our hearts, we needed to keep the line apparent.
But it's not that easy as we say it.
Soon, the feeling starts to erupt.
I want to convince that I hate him, and I'm just using him for pleasure.
But all I can do is try.
Only try.
I Want to find my mother, fill all those blanks in life.
Also have to let go off my past which is crushing me deep down.
And he got to save himself.
Because when the threatens gets worst?
It started to look like revenge.
But why?
who is doing all this?
How will these secrets connect us in the end?
or will they throw us apart?
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Hi, my name is Madeline Bailey.
And this is my story
“Sleeping with the forbidden billionaire”
— a story of a secret love when you have only seen the dark and when there is no hope left…
A story of lust with all the rules framed to avoid the four words called love.
A story of a nineteen-year-old girl who sleeps with the enemy, the forbidden man, ten years older than her.
And the worst, he sits opposite to her.
Every time winning against her.
A story of unexpected love, lust, secrets, dark past and broken hearts.
A world of desire with suspicion, deceit and a Forbidden secret.
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Author's Note
1. The story revolves around Billionaire Romantic-Suspense theme, which will be part of the Stary writing Academy III contest.
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