The Billionaire's Christmas Bargain: Billionaires in Bondage, Book 3 by Joely Sue Burkhart

Author:Joely Sue Burkhart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: grief;bdsm;mistress;French maid;rich hero;mistress for hire
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Whether she’d intended it or not, she’d given Harvey a new fantasy to play in his mind. The image of being naked on his knees before her wormed deeper into his brain, refusing to be banished. Combined with the stress of waiting for his attorney to call with the final deal, he’d been up all fucking night in his freshly cleaned room. He only had four days left to buy enough shares to stage the takeover, if he wanted to make the announcement at Aunt Lauren’s Christmas Eve party. All the board would be there, so that’s definitely where he wanted to break the news to her.

On cue, his phone rang. “Tell me the good news.”

“We have a deal on the table for the final shares,” Stephanie Gyles said calmly. “But you might not be willing to accept the terms.”

His heart thudded painfully fast. He sat in his desk chair and took a deep breath, willing his body to calm down. “Go.”

“The only board member who was willing to budge on their number of personal shares was Roger Mallory, and only after I admitted you were the buyer as a last resort.”

“I always knew he was a bastard,” Harvey muttered. At least the other board members were loyal to Caine Enterprises, even if indirectly, that meant to his aunt rather than him, the true heir to the company.

“He’s willing to sell off one percent of his shares, giving you the final cut at fifty-one percent for one ninety a share.”

Harvey jotted the numbers down on a piece of paper. “That doesn’t make sense. That’s the going market rate anyway. Why wouldn’t I like this deal? Hell, I’d be willing to pay double to get those damned shares.”

“He’ll sell at the market rate if…” The first crack in her calm facade splintered through her voice. “If you sign the Knightmare over to him.”

Harvey fell back in his chair. His chest banded with pain and for a moment he couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t think. Of course the bastard would make it hurt. He’d known exactly how to dig the knife into him. The value of the yacht more than made up for the cheap market rate of the shares, but more, it’d rip out his heart at the same time.

“You still have the yacht, don’t you?”

He opened his mouth, but had to clear his throat roughly to make any words come out. “I believe so.”

“Are you willing and able to part with the boat? He seemed to think that you wouldn’t. He even laughed about it, like he’d asked the impossible.”

“Fucking son of a bitch.” Harvey gripped the arms of the chair, trying not to rip it apart with his bare hands. He needed to destroy something. Beat something up. Or better, numb himself into oblivion. He’d spent most of his adult life numbing himself, dulling down the sharp edges of his personality so that he could fit in a little better with his peers. “He knows my parents gave that boat to me as my graduation present from Yale.

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