Page 41 of Ravaged For You

“Why did you choose me for this, Axel?” she asks. “It’s what I’ve been wondering since last night when you turned up at my condo.”

I sigh. “You’re strait-laced, Maddie. Lucas has looked into you and you’re practically faultless. No history of drugs or anything. You’re not a groupie, so therefore you’re not threatening to my female fans. You’ve got that virginal quality, even though I’m pretty sure even you have had sex before. You’re the ideal candidate.”

She brushes a strand of hair away from her face, and I notice her lightly blushing. “You think I’m pretty?”

“I also just basically called you a virgin.”

“Yeah, I won’t forget that.”

“Is that a threat?”

“You may think of me as some virgin, Axel, but let me make you understand something,” she says, her voice lowering. “I’m not some wide-eyed princess who’s been locked away in an ivory tower all my life. I’ve been through shit myself. You seem to have this perception of me as being some naïve young girl who’ll bow at your feet and call you master, but I’m here today to tell you I’m not. I know what I’m getting into. I’m prepared for it.”

I’m taken aback by her forthrightness. She’s sassy, I’ll give her that. That revealing red dress is starting to really fit her.

“Are you sure that you’re prepared?” I ask her quietly. “Are you ready to deal with my life?”

“Look, Axel,” she closes her notebook and stares me right in the eyes. “I want to get a few things clear. Emotions can’t get in the way of this fake relationship. I’m not one of your conquests you can boss around. In fact, that’s my first condition.”

“Fine.”

She straightens her back. She’s bolder. Less nervous than when I first entered this room. “I also want no girls at all during the length of the relationship. No groupies coming and going from your bedroom, alright? No busloads of women at every stop, you got that?”

“Well, since I’m not actually physically fucking you, I should be allowed to get my fix,” I reply. I can’t do no sex. Not me, not Active Axel.

“That’s not how I operate,” she retorts bluntly. “No girls. Period. The contract is terminated if I even see another girl’s panties in your room.”

“Well then, I have a condition of my own,” I growl back in response.

“Spit it out, then.”

“You have to do what I say in public. Be like my doting girlfriend. Can you do that? Act besotted with me. Act like you’re in love. All the time, please.”

Maddie sighs. “If I must, I must.”

“Hey, you don’t find me that bad of a looker, do you?”

“Maybe not,” Maddie replies. “But no funny business, okay? No groping or anything. I’ll walk straight home if you do.”

“But if I kiss you in public, then you must kiss back. That’s how the game’s played.”

She raises an eyebrow. I want to see her squirm at that suggestion, and she doesn’t disappoint. “You want to kiss in public?”

“That’ll be what everyone expects. What the paparazzi expect. You’ll be meeting those assholes soon enough.”

“Okay, so kisses and hugs in public are fine.”

“Good.”

Picturing her kissing me does things to my cock. She despises me so much that it would be fun to have her hold that all in and pretend to like me in public. Pretend to be obsessively in love with me. Put aside all her morals to make me look good in front of the cameras. There’s something about this girl that makes the pleasure signals in my brain go into overdrive. The thought that we’re going to spend the next few weeks basically tied at the hip makes me go crazy.

Yeah, who cares about fucking other women when I’ve got Maddie Leaver to tease?

“Do you understand how weird this all is for me, Axel?” she asks.

“Ditto.”

“Good that you feel the same. I thought I was crazy for thinking this is all crazy.”