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For ten million dollars.
She fanned her face with the sheet of paper, panic filling her up as she continued to utter a whole slew of new noises. This wasn't good. This wasn't good at all.
She forced herself to get rational. She shook out her arms and straightened her shoulders, but she desperately needed to sit her butt down, so she inched, rather ungracefully, toward her chair and sank into the leather seat, then tried to mind-map everything that had led up to this one startling event.
Except, her brain had turned to mush.
So she just sat there.
Marcy texted her again, and she managed to type a reply.
Not fired. It’s worse.
Marcy immediately texted her back.
Leave office now. Meet you at home. With food.
Okay. Kensley typed back.
What? You’re not going to argue about the vulgarity of leaving the office early? What the fuck happened?Marcy shot back.
I can’t even begin to explain it.
She had gone from having a blind date that morning to getting a monetary offer for her virginity from their new boss, who happened to be a multi-billionaire.
Not daring to stall for even a second, in case she reverted to her old self, who wouldn’t dream of leaving early, she stuffed her laptop into a bag, gathered her handbag, and fled her office.
Under the circumstances, she was definitely within her rights to leave early. She almost sprinted to her car in her heels. She drove faster than she would ever allow herself to drive. She lived by all the rules, but in one afternoon, Hunter McLeod had her breaking them fast and furiously.
Marcy arrived a few minutes after she had. Even though she hadn't eaten all day, what with her lunch ruined when she thought she was going to be fired, her stomach remained tightly knotted, and food was the last thing on her mind.
“Tell me everything,” Marcy said, kicking off her shoes in Kensley's frighteningly neat apartment and emptying the food bags onto Kensley’s highly polished, gleaming dining-room table. “And eat while you’re doing it.”
She had no idea where to start, so instead, she fished out the contract from her handbag. It wasn't in as pristine a condition anymore as when Charles Smith had slid it toward her that afternoon. She handed it to Marcy and waited.
History was made for a second time that day by the same man. Marcy had been rendered speechless.
Marcy lowered herself onto a sofa but missed the seat by a breath and slid to the carpeted floor instead, where she stayed, still dazed. “I can't even...” She looked up at Kensley and then down at the sheet of paper in her hand. “Holy fuck, Kensley Reid.” Even Marcy's freckles looked stupefied.
“I know, right?” Kensley murmured. Once more, the express randomness of it all sunk in, and she was equally floored, yet again. Why on earth would one of the richest and definitely one of the most insanely gorgeous, unfairly sexy, and, at the same time, powerfully intimidating, Hunter McLeod, want with her little virginity?
She had flaws a mile long. She didn't work out. She tried to eat well starting every morning but had a weakness for coconut chocolate bars on the daily, so that didn't help. She just could not wrap her brain around that at all. Firstly, what was wrong with him? No, that was the only question that could be asked.
What was wrong with him?
Seemingly over her shock, Marcy jumped up from the floor and basically attacked her.
“Oh, my god, oh, my god, oh, my god. What are we going to do?” She asked, shaking Kensley by the arms and almost toppling them both over.
“Nothing, Marcy. I’m going to do nothing, and Hunter McLeod can stick this contract up his sexy butt because there is no way—”
Her cell phone rang at that precise moment, and she answered it immediately, despite the state she was in. When it came to her grandparents, nothing was more important. She had gone to live with them when she was around seventeen years old after witnessing something no seventeen-year-old should see her parents doing. And her parents' defense, which they kept up and stuck with throughout the years, was that they had expected her back much later and certainly not with company and just like that her world changed.
They apologized, although not for what they were doing. Oh, no. They said they were sorry because Kensley had walked in on them. After that, they told her to grow up already and that she needed to accept that some people did things differently, which didn’t make it the wrong way.
Yeah right.
Thanks to them, she vowed never to fall in love. She had been in like with Hugh, which was totally different.
