Page 124 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 8
I wanted to show her more of my world. “It’s boring to go to the same place twice. Let’s go to my vineyard instead.” I snapped my fingers and we appeared in the courtyard of my villa. Nigel was wearing lederhosen and picking grapes.
“Ugh, of coursehehad to be here,” said Chastity.
“He’s usually wherever I am,” I said. I thought she knew what a houseboy was?
“Wow,” said Ash as she stared out at the rows and rows of grapes growing. “How long have you owned a vineyard?”
“I bought it in the 80s.”
“Which 80s?”
I laughed. “The most recent one. I used to play football for Fiorentina.”
“Really?”
“Yup. We were pretty good too. We were the runners up to Juve in Serie A in 1982. We would have won the next year, but I had to quit for fear of getting found by DODO.”
“You should play again! Maybe you could join NY United.”
Hm.It had been years since I’d partaken in the gentlemen’s game. I wasn’t sure I wanted to be a starter. I was a little busy trying to figure out how to find Ash her lesser true love. But I had some time to spare. Maybe I could buy the team and just attend a few practices or something.
“Okay, here’s the plan,” said Chastity. “We need to send Ash on tons of Society dates to interview prospective donors. Then if she approves of the boner donor, she’ll let them fill her at the end of the date. It’ll help Ash get a baby and she’ll probably find true love along the way. Easy peasy. Two dicks, one solution. Or one dick, two solutions? No, that doesn’t sound as much fun.”
That wasn’t a saying.
“And obviously it’ll end up being more like dozens of dicks...”
Ash groaned.
I turned to her. “Can’t we just go to a different fertility clinic?”
She shook her head. “No. My fertility journey is ruined.”
“Isn’t itourfertility journey? And I’d really prefer if we go back...”
“My body my choice, buddy.”
“What is with all these strange sayings?” I asked.
Ash gave me a funny look. “I think a lot of people know that one. It’s a women’s thing.”
I shook my head. “The only popular saying I know about women is that they’re meant to be seen and not heard.”
Ash laughed. “No, that’s not right.”
Modern-day fluff.I mean...I might be free right now if it washerbody butmychoice. And maybe if she’d been seen and not heard at the fertility clinic we’d still be there. Although...it’s possible what she’d done wasseen. Seriously, what had she done?
“What are you thinking?” asked Ash.
“Nothing. It’s fine if you don’t want to go back to the clinic. But if we do Chastity’s plan, we need to set some ground rules. I don’t want a repeat of Ireland.”
“Ireland?”
I cleared my throat. “Rule 1: You have one date to close the deal.” I didn’t want her going on tons of dates with the same guy. Iwasn’t going to risk losing her. “Rule 2: No revealing my secret. Rule 3: Always tell me what you do.” I wanted to wipe these idiots’ memories after the dates if she fucked them. I didn’t want anyone to remember touching my girl. I would have wiped Ash’s memory too, but once my curse was lifted, the only thing she’d remember about other dicks was how inferior they were to mine.
“That’s a lot of rules...” Chastity started, but I cut her off.
“And rule 4: No dating my friends.” I needed to befriend Cole ASAP so Ash couldn’t bang him. I hated that piece of shit. “Oh, and I get to choose the guy.” I already had the perfect guy picked out. A good lad named Mike.
