The Taming of the Billionaire by Jessica Clare

Author:Jessica Clare
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Next time, Edie decided, she’d go with a princess costume like Bianca had demanded, if it included a purse. Finding her missing peg leg was a chore, but with Magnus’s help, it wasn’t so bad. A short time later, Edie found her peg leg, still intact and still with her phone inside. Time to text Bianca. She decided that a headache was the best excuse. Got migraine. Gretchen got me a cab. Heading home. Stay out as long as you like. Enjoy yourself! I’m going home to sleep. XO.

It was the perfect excuse, really—Bianca was too afraid of Gretchen to double check on things, so her alibi was ironclad. She put her phone away and turned to Magnus, who was texting as well. “Ready to go?” she asked, feeling a little uncertain at the sight of him with his phone in his hand. Maybe he’d changed his mind and was sending out an SOS so he wouldn’t have to go home with her?

But then he put his phone away and pulled her against him. She suspected he’d have kissed her, but he was wearing his dumb helmet again. “Just ditching my brother. I’m all yours for the evening.”

“Then let’s blow this joint,” she teased, feeling lighthearted and, okay, a little giddy. She didn’t even care that her knee ached. Fuck the knee. She’d just had incredible sex on top of a sundial (or at least its rocky stand) and with a gorgeous, sexy man.

And they were going home to have sex again. This had definitely turned out to be her night. Edie put her hand in his and they cut through a few back rooms at the party, avoiding conversations, and made their way out the front to where the valets were waiting.

“Leaving already, Mr. Sullivan?” one asked as he approached with Edie.

“Already,” Magnus agreed, not expanding on the subject. “Got my car nearby?”

“We were very careful with it,” the valet agreed enthusiastically, and Edie wondered about it until she saw the damn car.

A Maserati. Jeez. She eyed it with a bit of trepidation. At least there wouldn’t be a driver to sit in the front seat and judge them as they went back to her tiny townhouse full of cats. “I sure hope the interior’s roomy,” she commented to Magnus.

For a moment, the look on his face was stricken. “Shit.”

“It’s fine,” Edie said quickly. “Just drive fast.”

He laughed. “Now that, I can do.”

They made it back to Edie’s place in record time, zooming down the highways at high speed. The interior of the Maserati was actually pretty comfortable, but she was in a hurry to get home with Magnus, just in case he changed his mind about wanting to be with her at the last minute. All of this felt surreal. Like if she blinked her eyes or snapped her fingers, she’d wake up and this gorgeous guy who had an incredible dick and wanted to be with her would disappear and she’d be Cat Lady Edie again.

Which was not such a bad person to be, of course, but it was lonely.

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