The Billionaire's Bride (Complete Collection) by Aaliyah Andrews Page A

away.
    It might be sad, but I believed in that moment that I belonged with Jayne. It helped dig me deeper into that spiraling darkness. Devoured by it, I walked away from her a different man, a shadow of the one weeks ago. I marched to the lounging girls.
    I picked Anna first. Then I spotted Nicole, a brunette not quite as rich or refined as Jayne, but just as skinny. Breasts bouncing in their tiny bikinis as they hopped up, they followed me to my bedroom on the bottom deck.
    “This is interesting. We never get to see The Room,” Anna said, gawking at everything around her, none of it personal, all of it arranged by the crew.
    “The Room?”
    “We just call it The Room. It’s where no one gets to go. Until now,” Nicole said while gazing upon my suite.
    Their chatter went on behind me but I was hardly listening as I poured shots of vodka for us all. Anna refused, but Nicole, pleased to be chosen for something downed it and wiped her lips with a twinkle in her eyes. I poured another. And another. And another. No matter how much I drank, my demons won.
    I staggered to the edge of my bed and sat down. My hand slipped into my pocket and I brushed the edge of my phone. What would Tia be doing now? It seemed like the best time to text her.
    Wasn’t it always the best time to text someone you really shouldn’t once you had a drink or two? Clearly alcohol and cellphones belonged to two different times that should never mix.
    “Why’d you call us in here? The suspense is killing me,” Anna told me, bobbing on her toes, protruding her breasts. As much as she tried to play it in the beginning, she wasn’t wholesome.
    “Kiss,” I said.
    “What?” Anna and Nicole froze, jaws going slack. They tuned to one another, then back at me.
    “Did you say kiss?”
    Nicole let a moan slip. Confident, flinging her hair back, she strode toward the bed. She thought I meant me. No. That’s not what I meant at all.
    I halted her advance. After meeting Tia, touching another woman wouldn't mean anything.
    She took a step back with Anna.
    “Kiss her,” I said, grinning at Nicole, then to Anna. Their eyes went wide and their jaws dropped again. Their reaction struck me as somewhat amusing, like I had a button I could press to make them do that.
    “Okay, if that’s what you want,” Anna said with a giggle. I waited. A fake giggle, but her enthusiasm wasn’t.
    Nicole got into it right away. They both kissed in front of me, but I wasn’t done. I remained on the edge of the bed, watching the whole time as I instructed them to keep going. They didn’t need to be instructed for long. They eventually got the hint. I told them to keep going as I walked out to Anna eating Nicole out, both feverishly humping legs.
    Above deck, Jayne lowered her book on how to succeed in business. She placed it on her lap and grinned at me as if to tell me I couldn’t run.
    She was right.
    Not even my sexual amusements cured me now. The whole experience had left me in a somber mood. My cock hadn’t budged a centimeter.
    Sober, but needing to wait until the alcohol cleared my system, I waited near my jet ski on the side of the yacht. I would go for a long ride.

Chapter 9
    Tia
    L ucas sent me texts that bordered on erotica...and then he shut up? It didn’t make any sense, but then again, the reason I found myself in this predicament in the first place was because he didn’t make sense. If he wanted me why not simply pick me as the winner and be done with his game?
    ...Unless he was ashamed of me.
    I couldn’t blame him there. I wasn’t feeling too hot about myself, either. Who could feel sexy working the balloon game at Adventure Zone? I went full carny, dressed in a pinstripe suit, I waved and screamed for children to throw darts at balloons. “You’re not trying,” my manager said as he passed me by. Despite his comment, he remained pretty cool about it. He didn’t expect me to shout the entire time, but if I didn’t flail my arms every once in a