Bartered Betrayal: The Billionaire's Wife, Part 8 (A BDSM Erotic Romance)

By Ava Lore
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Published: Nov. 29, 2012
Words: 10,029 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301763375

Short description

Devastated to find her marriage has been built on a lie, Felicia goes back to her roots to figure out what she truly wants. Away from the swaying influence of Anton's sexual hold over her, Felicia discovers her true feelings, but can she express them to a man who seems to fear love more than anything else? This 9,500 word short story is the eighth installment in The Billionaire's Wife series.

Extended description

Devastated to find her marriage has been built on a lie, Felicia goes back to her roots to figure out what she truly wants. Away from the swaying influence of Anton's sexual hold over her, Felicia discovers her true feelings, but can she express them to a man who seems to fear love more than anything else?

This 9,500 word short story is the eighth installment in The Billionaire's Wife series.

EXCERPT: (Read more) Devastated to find her marriage has been built on a lie, Felicia goes back to her roots to figure out what she truly wants. Away from the swaying influence of Anton's sexual hold over her, Felicia discovers her true feelings, but can she express them to a man who seems to fear love more than anything else?

This 9,500 word short story is the eighth installment in The Billionaire's Wife series.

EXCERPT:

I rolled off my old mattress, stumbled into my kitchenette and spat bile into the sink for a few minutes until I felt less like death. Then I went over to Mrs. Andersen's door and knocked.

The old woman opened the door on the third try, wearing curlers in her hair and a lacy bathrobe in a startling shade of chartreuse. “What do you want?” she said.

I blushed. “Could... could I borrow a few dollars?” I asked. A few dollars could get me almost a week's worth of ramen. I wasn't sure what I would cook it in, but if worst came to worst I could just eat a block of dried noodles and call it a day. I'd done it before. I have a lot of flaws, but pride, I don't think, is one of them.

“Haven't you made up with your husband yet?” she demanded. “Seems like you should talk to him or something.”

I stared at her. “I haven't even been gone for a full day,” I said.

“So?” She waved a bony hand at me. “Time is wasting. Isn't your head on straight by now?”

I barked out a disbelieving laugh. “I've been trying to get my head on straight for years,” I told her. “I did therapy with, like, three different counselors before—”

“Bored,” she said. “You are boring me. If I give you five dollars will you go away?”

I shut my mouth and nodded.

She slammed the door in my face. I heard her rummaging around in her apartment before the door opened again and she shoved a five dollar bill in my hand. “Here,” she said. “Go get something to eat, and then for God's sake go home.”

“I am home,” I told her.

“You are married now, this is not your home!”

My eyes stung. “What matters to me is still here,” I said, and it wasn't a lie. My clay. My tools. My art. Why had I left it here? Why hadn't I come back? Had I really been so swept up with Anton and planning my stupid wedding, pleasing my husband and my mother, that I'd just... stopped being an artist?

Stopped being me?
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romance, love, sex, erotic romance, bdsm romance, arranged marriage, billionaire romance, billionaire bdsm

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