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“Okay, if you insist, but I have conditions.”
“Then we will discuss them over dinner.”
She glances down at her crumpled dress, and I nod toward Melissa’s dress on the chair. “My sister offered you a change of clothes. Why don’t you shower and change and meet me downstairs in thirty minutes? Can you manage it this time without falling asleep?”
I raise my eyes and she nods slowly. “I think so, although part of me believes I’m still dreaming.”
“This isn’t a dream, Laura, it’s a beginning. Our beginning and it’s up to you when it ends.”
I stand and smile down at her confused expression.
“Thirty minutes and I suggest you prepare your ‘conditions’ while you change. I’ll have a contract drawn up and we will make it for ninety days initially with a view to extend it if we are satisfied with the arrangement.”
I turn and she whispers, “You can’t buy me, Mr. Remington. I’m not a whore.”
I turn slowly. “I don’t want a whore, Laura. I want a lady.”
Then I turn and leave and congratulate myself on getting what I want—again.
CHAPTER 29
LAURA
This is the strangest day of my life. It has turned full circle and now I’m going to be Troy Remington’s pretend girlfriend. If only I could tell my friends, they wouldn’t believe it. I’m not sure if I believe it, but it’s happening.
I should have said no, because if Adonis is right, this man is only using me. That was the first thing I thought of, and then something snapped inside me.
Everyone uses me.
From Oscar to Troy. To my parents, who never told me the truth and used me for monetary gain. My grandparents, who never really wanted me but paid somebody else to raise me and my mother, who sounds like a psycho who would probably have murdered me before I could crawl.
Nobody wants me as a person, which is why I’m taking this chance. I get to be some kind of paid escort and I may as well have some fun before reality comes back to bite me.
Thirty minutes later, I am dressed in another woman’s clothes and heading off to meet my new employer to discuss an extremely inappropriate job offer. I am nervous, crazily so, and yet the way he looked at me melted every doubt I had.
Having a man like that attached to my side for however long it’s going to last is no hardship and at the end of it I get to walk away with more money than I would earn in years and a great new wardrobe. What woman wouldn’t be happy with that and I’m hoping I get to go to some swanky evenings and mix with people I only read about?
When I reach the bottom of the huge staircase, I swallow hard because Troy is waiting for me dressed in a smart suit. He has obviously showered and his aftershave wafts across the space, tempting me to hurry to his side like a love potion.
He reaches for my hand and whispers, “You look lovely, Laura. Now, we should head off because I arranged a table at Scarlett’s, and you must be hungry.”
As I follow him, I say quickly, “Scarlett’s. Wow, I heard it’s impossible to get a reservation there.”
He shrugs. “Not for me.”
We step outside the huge front door, and I blink when I see a gleaming black Maserati waiting for us.
“You’re driving?” I say, my eyes wide and as he holds open the door to the passenger side, he winks.
“I have passed my test; I just prefer to let someone else do the work.”
“But not tonight.”
“No.” He leans in and fastens my seatbelt in place, his fingers brushing against my breast as he whispers, “I prefer to handle my own women and this car is the other woman in my life, so nobody gets to touch her but me.”
“The other woman?” I am breathless as he leans in and whispers against my lips, “I’m looking at the other one. If you sign the contract, that is.”
He pulls away and as he heads around the car, I actually pinch myself. Wow, dreams really do come true for those whowait and fuck the contract. I’m going nowhere except as a passenger in this incredibly gorgeous man’s life.
