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“Let me get back to you on that,” I said. I didn’t want to share Jelly. But if there was one man I’d considerdoing that with? It would be Nico Salazar. And I knew how much he liked her.

“Jelly is all yours, Paolo,” Carmen said into the microphone. I nodded at her with a smile.“That concludes this month’s Cinnamon Auction. I usually leave you with a tease as to who is going to headline next month’s auction, but I’m not sure yet. I’ll let you all know very soon,” she smiled in a flirty way as all of the women auctioned off in the evening’s festivities came back out on the stage.

“We want it to be you!” a couple of men called out, but Carmen just smiled.

While her brothers shot dirty looks at the guys, I noticed that Byron’s hands were clenched. He was doing his best not to look up at her, though. I felt bad for him. Byron was an objectively great looking guy. He was incredibly handsome, tall, built to the point of being shredded, and women pretty much dropped at his feet. Add to that the fact that he wasn’t a manwhore like the rest of us? He rarely fucked women he wasn’t in a relationship with. And he was rich? He was a catch.

But Carmen wasn’t looking to catch anyone, and I hated seeing my friend suffer in any way.

My mind snapped back to the stage, where all of the women were lining up. They were going to be announced once more as they made their way down the catwalk.

Jelly stood in the center of all of them, clearly the star of the show. I couldn’t take my eyes off her. I stood, waiting for her to make her way to the end of the catwalk. There were stairs on either side of it, where the women were coming down on the floor and exiting the auction room with their man.

I couldn’t wait to touch her. Even just hold her hand.

Enzo came over to me.“This is going to go a little differently than the Vanilla Auction was going to go.”

“What do you mean?”

“You’re supposed to take Jelly to one of the rooms here in Cinnamon and fuck her. Carmen thinks that’s the best way to get nerves out of the way.”

I blinked at him.“You mean we were supposed to take the society woman we won in the Vanilla Auction to the Waverly for the weekend where we’d seal the deal at some point during that forty-eight hour period. But we’re supposed to just grab our Cinnamon Girl and fuck her in the nearest room?”

“Yep.” Enzo stood with his hands in his pockets watching the women climb down the stairs using the hand or arm of their auction winner for support.

Well. That sucked. The Waverly was the only five diamond resort in town. So, to fuck the society women, we were to take them there, wine and dine them, and build up the romance before taking them to bed.

The Cinnamon Girls? They were supposed to get right to it.

“I’m not doing it that way,” I declared, and Byron and all the Salazar men looked at me.

“What are you going to do?” Nico asked.

“I’ll fuck her here because she’s given me blue balls for months. But I’ll also book a suite at the Waverly and use it with Jelly sometime during the contract time.”

Byron gave me a fist bump and a bro hug.“Good deal. She deserves that. They all do, really.”

Leo frowned, watching us with interest.“Maybe I should talk to Carmen about changing that about the auction. It does seem a bit… crass.”

Joaquin smirked.“Thatseems crass? We’re running a sex auction.”

“Fuck off, you know what I mean. I think we could handle things better.”

I watched as Jelly got closer to the stairs. Before I could go to the stairs and help her down, Nico walked over to do it. I cocked my eyebrow at him as he walked her over to me.

“Just giving you a hand,” he said, but the look he gave me reminded me that he wanted her, too. He handed her off to me, and as I finally held her hand in mind, the other men in the room scattered. I knew they’d find their way to Sugar or Cayenne to enjoy the rest oftheir evening.

But I would have a beautiful woman on my arm. One I’d be spending a lot of time with over the next few months.

“Jelly,” I said, as I twirled her.“You’re looking absolutely ravishing.”

“Thank you,” she said, seeming a bit uncomfortable.“I… I didn’t think you were going to participate in the auction.” She studied my face.“At least not this one.”

“I changed my mind.”

CHAPTER TWENTY

Jelly