Billionaire on Board by Dasha G. Logan

forever! What about an outdoor quickie?"
    "My parents are here!"
    "Ok, but I'm glad you're not generally opposed."
     
    Did he mean he had any future plans regarding our, well, copulating? Plans exceeding this weekend? I shut out the thought. Men say all sorts of things when they are horny. 
    Women do too. 
    Why would he be the one to call the shots anyway?
     
    Damn, I thought, Tina had been right, I was getting emotionally involved. Why on earth had I slept with him? It was against all the rules in the dating guidebook world! He could never regard me as wife material. Not after being such an easy prey! Ellen Fein and Sherry Argov would throw raw eggs at me!
     
    But who said I wanted to be his wife material? I did not! I liked being single! He was a great fuck and nothing else. What did I know about him anyway? Nothing but his name! He could be a total maniac! In fact, why would a man who was as rich and as handsome be single at the age of thirty-seven? Something was definitely wrong here!
     
    "Are you cold?" he asked when he saw the goosebumps on my arms.
    "A little." I lied again. "Ryan?"
    "Yes?"
    "Have you ever been married?"
    "No. Not that I know of. Why?"
    "Oh, I only thought, you know, never mind."
    "You wondered why I was still single at thirty-seven. You thought there must be something wrong with me."
    "No, of course not!" I protested. "I'd never think such a thing. It was only curiosity. I mean, why not? Nicky was married to someone else before Lilly, it's completely normal these days."
    "I didn't have the time. I work too much, didn't you hear? Do you want to go back inside? I don't want you to catch a cold before we start our twenty-four hours tantra workshop."
    "Yes, let's go inside."
     
     

Fourteen
     
    "We're getting married next week." Anita had stopped drinking the moment Lilly had enlightened her about her condition and she had found solace in talking. "In a lovely little church in Durban. We're both from there."
    The rest of us were slowly drifting into numb indifference. I had fallen against Ryan who kept looking at his watch. Philppe Patek. Any questions?
     
    "Forty-five minutes to go…" 
    "We got married in our car," Lilly yawned. 
    "How would you like to get married, Jude?" Anita asked.
    I looked up with a start. "Sorry?"
    "How would you like to get married. In church?"
    "Hell, no. If I have to get married at all, I'd do it on a helicopter flight over the Matterhorn."
    "I thought you were afraid of flying?" Ryan asked.
    "Yes, exactly. I'd be scared shitless. It would be the ultimate sacrifice."
     
    "I don't think you'll ever get married now, Jude." Corinna stood behind us, swaying dangerously.
    "Hello, Corry. Are you having a good time? It's a wonderful party."
    "I'm having a better time than you have." She laughed stupidly.
    "You're the bride, you should be having the best time of all."
    "I got him, you see?" She slurred. 
    "I'm very happy for you."
    "No, you're not," she spat and ambled around the table to face me. "I know you still want him for yourself!"
    "What are you talking about?"
    "What does she want?" Ryan demanded. His German was very basic.
    "The usual. It's that time of the night."
    "Oh God."
    "I know you love my Chris! You have always loved him, you will always love him, but he's mine, you see, mine! Even if you bring your rich man here." She changed into English. "She will never marry you! She wants my husband!"
    "Is that so?" Ryan did not even glance at her.
    "Yes! Yes! Never. She does not love you."
    "How dreadful."
    "You're a scheming bitch!" She was back in her native language. "You only came here with this man to make my husband jealous! So he would leave me! You will never accept anybody else."
    Without warning, I went hopping mad. The toad had insulted me one too many times. "As a matter of fact, I have!" 
    "Ha! I don't believe you, you liar!"
    "Ryan has asked me last night and I said yes!"
    "Never! You'd have a ring! You wear no ring!"
    "Yes and do you know why, you