Change of Passion (Falling for the Billionaire #1) by Karolyn James Page B

hitting the red
emergency button, stopping the elevator, and… what?
    The thought made her cheeks blush. 
    Rebecca hadn’t had an erotic
thought in weeks, if not months.  Not since Cancun.  Not since life got real
and things seemed to be requiring her to live on a plan.  And that plan, thus
far, didn’t including dating, men, or sex unless it came from her own touch,
which only went so far on a woman like Rebecca.
    “You’re new here,” Bradley said
breaking up the silence in the elevator.
    Rebecca looked up and saw the light
moving from five to six. 
    There wasn’t much time until her
stop would come.
    “First day,” Rebecca said. 
“Finished graduate school this year and this is my first job.”
    “You know, I get a hell of a
kickback for hiring post graduates.  Keeps the schools happy because they can
say they effectively placed their hard earning students.  Keeps the politicians
at bay too.  They love when I hire people.  But the thing is, I don’t need to hire
anyone.”
    Bradley looked at.  Rebecca never
felt so helpless in her life.  She felt as if she were about to die yet she had
an erotic feeling surging through herself.  It was so intense that she stepped
back to lean aganst the elevator as she felt the feelings in her legs started
to disappear.
    “See, they need me to hire people
but I don’t have to keep them.  I usually don’t either.  What’s the point?  Why
pay for something someone else can do… or something I can do myself?”
    Rebecca didn’t understand yet, but
that moment was perhaps the most important moment of her life.  Bradley turned
now and faced her, his hands at his sides.  The numbered lights told her they
were now approaching the ninth floor.
    She needed to answer Bradley and
her answer would be everything.
    Literally, everything.
    Why pay for something someone
else can do… or something I can do myself?
    Rebecca opened her mouth, trying to
recall anything related to business and finance.  Some kind of stat or phrase,
but she had nothing.
    She only had her heart.  Her mind. 
Her real desires that hid beneath the shell of her life.
    So she answered Bradley with the
truth he hoped she would.
    “Because I can do that something better.”
    The elevator dinged and came to a stop.
    The tenth floor.
    Where Rebecca’s career was supposed
to begin at The HB-Ley Corporation. 
    She was frozen in place and wasn’t
sure if she could move or not.
    Bradley’s stare hadn’t left her.
    The elevator did its job, pausing. 
    It made another sound and the doors
started to shut.
    “You just made the greatest
decision of your life,” Bradley said.
    “How so?” Rebecca asked.  Her heart
pounded in her chest and her mouth felt dry as hell.
    “You could have chosen that life. 
That life that begins on the tenth floor.  Where they all come and all go.  But
instead, you’ve chosen something different.  Something more submissive. 
Something you’ll never be able to let go.”
    Bradley made his move at her.
    Within a second, his body touched
Rebecca’s, taking Rebecca’s words away, leaving her with the ability to moan
and nothing else. 
    Bradley’s mouth came down to hers,
hovering an inch away.
    Rebecca tried to move at him to
kiss – she had no idea why she had this urge – but Bradley pulled away.
    “The first thing you’ll learn is
that I’m in control, always.”
    Rebecca nodded.
    “The second thing you’ll learn is
that you are now mine.  I am the world, your world now.”
    His fingers grazed Rebecca’s hair,
sliding it behind one of her ears.
    “Becky,” he whispered.  “Oh Becky…”
    “My name is Rebecca,” she replied.
    Bradley’s hand moved from Rebecca’s
hair to her mouth.  The sweet touch became serious, almost too serious. 
    His grip was fierce and his eyes
were full of rage.
    “I’m calling you Becky,” he said. 
“Understand?”
    Rebecca nodded.
    “Perfect.  Now…”  Bradley’s hand
slid from her mouth, leaving just