Bought: A Dark Billionaire Romance by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2018-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Ethan

She doesn’t understand how special she is, how unique she is. She doesn’t understand how I have bribed and seduced, and otherwise manipulated my way through the swathes of people who have stood between me and what I want.

She is an obstacle in a world where there are increasingly few. I live a life in which almost anything is possible. I could quite easily make a phone call to a friend with a rocket ship and be in low earth orbit inside a week if I wished to be. That has little relevance to this situation directly, but the fact that the sky is no longer the limit for me does weigh heavy at times.

A man is made a man by the difficulties he overcomes. I have overcome all of them—all, except her. I was impressed by her strength yesterday, and then again today. I am impressed again now. I know she is uncomfortable in her new garb. I know she is out of place, and that given the chance, she would slink away and hide, like a frightened kitten. But she does not have that option, so she sits opposite me, and she questions me, the man who has become her tormentor.

She has a purity I no longer possess. She has ideals and ideas. She is brilliant in her own right. I respect her intellect immensely, even though it is her body I make the most use of.

Now she is looking at me with an expression of adorable perplexity. She doesn’t know what to make of my comments, because she doesn’t understand me. Not yet. Maybe she will soon. Maybe she’ll unravel me and maybe I’ll take her apart and maybe we’ll come together and make something…

These are all very highbrow ways of rationalizing something very simple to myself.

I am lonely.

A man cannot have friends in this stage of life. He has allies who can become enemies at any moment. As for female companionship, that can be bought directly, or come at a cost later.

It is impossible to trust a smile. But I can trust her, because she has no artifice. She wants to destroy me. And that is the most refreshing thing I have experienced in quite some time.

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