Sold To The Hottest Bidder - An Auctioned to the Billionaire Romance by Layla Valentine

Author:Layla Valentine [Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Eva stepped into the elevator and tapped the button for the ground floor, glancing around as she waited for the doors to close to make sure no one got on with her. Last thing I need right now is to have someone asking me what happened, she thought irritably.

Finally, the doors closed and the elevator hummed slightly as it began its descent, and Eva leaned against the rail, shaking her head at the twist her day had taken on.

She hadn’t been surprised that her decision to stand up for herself had gotten her fired, but it irritated her nonetheless. I definitely needed to have something else refuse to go my way, she thought bleakly, reviewing the past several months. She had known—intellectually—that she couldn’t go back to the life she’d had before; she’d only barely avoided being arrested and charged for her part in the last job she’d taken before going “straight,” and that had been too close to comfort for her.

Eva shuddered, remembering the hours in the interrogation room; the only way she’d been able to get out of fraud and racketeering charges had been to tell the complete and total truth. While she hadn’t been in charge of the operation that had gotten her caught, she’d been a valuable member of the team.

The job went south, Eva thought, glancing up at the lights that went on and off to indicate the floors she was descending through. Just because one job went south, it doesn’t mean you can’t get back in the game. The idea had a tantalizing gleam in her mind. But even if you could get back in the game, how would you start up again?

Eva had gotten her start hustling jewelers, selling them counterfeit pieces that were just good enough to pass inspection by the juniors and then taking the money before the manager could arrive; she’d run a few blackmail games on married men she found on Tinder, until—working that very scam—she’d met Jared.

Jared hadn’t been married; the spouse listed on one of his social profiles had been a fake. When Eva had given him the option of paying her $1,000 or being “outed” to his wife, he’d laughed and told her that she could message the woman in question all she wanted. When Eva had tried harder to find a way to get something out of him, he’d made his counter offer: work for him, and make substantially more money scamming companies instead of individuals.

Eva had at first assumed that Jared meant to put her out on a limb and then escape with whatever money she managed to make for his enterprise, leaving her high and dry; but he’d offered to let her come along on one of the jobs, in a low-stakes position as his “assistant,” for a smaller cut. Within three days of going with Jared to make the pitch, Eva had pocketed two thousand dollars in cash. It had only made sense to join the group.

The elevator pinged when she

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