Billionaire Romance: Club Billionaire (The Complete Series) by Lexi Duval

with good
ones. To lose yourself to what you loved before in the hope that it
will help numb the torture in your mind.
    As with everything in my life, I refuse to let Brad take
away my lust for Kyle too. Now, that lust has been well and truly
joined by something more. Something deeper, more meaningful.
    He's told me how he'd do anything to protect me, and
that alone has sent my heart soaring. My desire for him, far from
being diminished, has increased. My need to keep him close, my
protector, my savior, my lover...
    So when he tenderly kisses my forehead, I make sure I
drag his face down so that his lips roll over mine. I make sure that
his hands busily explore me as they have so many times now. I do it
to test myself, to find out the true extent of Brad's crimes. To
discover whether he's robbed me of my sexual desire, my need to feel
Kyle inside me.
    “ Are you sure you want to...” Kyle asks, the
gentleman inside him understanding how I must be feeling.
    I don't answer with words, but actions. With my
guidance, I slide his fingers beneath my skirt, coax him into it as
he massages my clit and slips his fingers inside me. It's a test, and
I'm passing it, my pussy growing moist, my body beginning to tremble.
Not from fear, or from lingering memories of Brad's attack, but from
unadulterated longing, an appetite for Kyle that nothing can quench.
    Kyle is gentle, more so than usual. He takes it slow,
undressing me, making love to me like it's my first time. In some
ways it is. My first time since the attack, my body primed to reject
such advances, to close down and grow fearful at the touch of a man.
    But it doesn't. I open up to him more than ever. I enjoy
his flesh as he does mine, feeling comforted when he penetrates me.
Feeling altogether happy, delirious even, that I'm able to find joy
in this. Knowing that Kyle, and only Kyle, knows how to push my
buttons just right. That he's sensitive enough himself to understand
the thoughts that must be running through my head. To lead me through
it all and return me to my original state.
    When we finish, I feel as if a reset button has been
clicked in my mind. I feel as though being with Kyle, like this, has
helped me put everything behind me. And now, more than ever, I want
to tell him how I truly feel. For everything he's done for me, for
everything he keeps doing. I want to tell him I love him.
    But I don't. I'm scared it will turn him away. I know,
even if he reciprocates it, that he'll never act on it. That I'll
never be anything more than a secret to him, something set aside from
his life of wealth and power and influence. A man like him will marry
an appropriate woman, not a waitress and former stripper with no
education. I know, deep down, that I'm damaged goods.
    And so does he.
    Before Kyle leaves, he tells me to say nothing of the
attack on Brad. That the cops might come to investigate, asking
questions of the members and staff. I need to keep my mouth shut, for
my sake and his, and just keep going as if nothing has happened.
    “ You won't see me here for a while,” he tells me.
“I'm going away on some serious business, which may last a few
weeks. I'll be in contact when I return.”
    With that he kisses me, on the forehead once more, and
vanishes from my sight.
    Over the next week, Kyle's predictions come true.
Despite the secret nature of the club and the power of its members,
no one gets in the way when the police come asking questions. Each
member, it seems, is keen to find out exactly what happened to Brad
Turner. To show solidarity in the face of this 'brutal attack', as
the press have started to call it, even though some of them, I'd
suspect, like the boy little more than I do.
    It's about a week after the attack that I'm questioned
myself. A kindly looking officer asks me a few simple questions, but
nothing more. Frankly, they don't tend to spend too much time on the
waitresses, and seem to be clutching at straws. By the looks of
things, they have no real leads