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“Ford brought her here, so I can bid on her.” Ash gets possessive. “I want her. She looks real and Ford wouldn’t put someone I couldn’t trust in my path. Would you, Ford?”
“Just hire an escort, Ash,” I bite out. “Get the girlfriend experience.”
“With all those rich fucks in the room?” Ash peers at me. “They’ll spot an escort a mile away.”
Ford gets to his feet, the tension rising between us. “Did you hear me, Emery? You can’t sleep with her.”
“Why do you think I’ll agree not to sleep with her?” Ash asks, then gasps. “Oh, right...” He gets in Ford’s face. “You think I don’t want a woman anymore.”
The spite in Ash’s voice looks like it knocks the wind out of Ford. Ash will nail that woman just to get even with Montgomery.
“Why isn’t the sex part up to her?” I challenge Ford.
Ford looks ready to explode.
“Emery is right.” Ash folds his arms in defiance. “What if she wants it?”
“You guys bid it out then.” Ford finishes his drink. “If either of you lays a hand on her against her will, I’llbreak every one of your fucking fingers. You need your hands, Dr. Ives. I’ll make sure to tell her to come to me if she’s being forced.”
“I doubt I’ll have to force her to fuck me once she sees what I’m packing,” I say with confidence.
Ford swears under his breath. “Don’t test me.”
“Fucking hero complex you have,” Ash says, like he forgets that Ford quit NYU to join the military right after 9/11.
“Just so we’re clear, if she’s on board, then I can fuck her?” I ask.
“I’ll be talking to her regularly.”
“I’m not a prick.” I defend my honor. “I have a daughter and a lot to lose.”
“And you think I don’t?” Ash scrolls on his phone.
“Checking your liquidity?” I ask him.
He glares at me. “You bet.”
For years, he traveled all over the world with Doctors Without Borders, SAMs, and the Red Cross. He went broke from all his time with those charities. When Ford nailed his father in the courts, that bastard had to cough up almost one hundred million.
Now, Ash is as rich as me.
I grew up poor and made my money breaking my back. I sacrificed my marriage and nearly lost my daughter in a vicious custody battle. I should hate trust-fund babies, but because Ash dedicates himself to the underprivileged, I respect the hell out of him.
Just not enough to let him win.
I look at her again. “What’s her name?”
Ford watches me cautiously. “Bernadette.”
I catch her gazing at Ford with a smile. There’s energy there. But it’s all around her.
Amazing.
Those lips and all that hair make her the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.
On the cocktail table is a card with a QR code that leads to a very secure website on the club’s private servers. There are bios and pictures of the girls.
I quickly swipe through all the thin blondes and exotic-looking brunettes with cinnamon skin and big tits. Bernadette’s bio is on the last page.
