Page 191 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 8
“The cricket world cup!” yelled Nigel.
“You’re welcome to come too,” I said.
“What?” Nigel turned to me. “But...lads on tour.”
I ignored him. “You’re definitely invited.”
“Is it just for the day? I might be able to take tomorrow off.”
I shook my head. “It lasts a couple weeks.”
“A couple weeks?” She sighed. “No way my mean boss will let me do that.”
“Great!” said Nigel. “Lads on tour! I’ll go tell Master Matthew about our holiday.” He snapped his fingers and disappeared.
Ash closed the distance between us. “Do you really have to go for so long?” She put her hand on my chest.
I was going to miss her too. But I couldn’t tell her why I was running off like this. I nodded.
“But...you are coming back, right?”
I wrapped my hand around hers. It was a valid question. I’d run away from her before. But I wasn’t doing that again. I was doing this for us. I needed to go to India to find and zap Princess Karima with a curse that would turn her into my puppet. And then I was going to take down the genie council from within. AndI knew exactly where Karmia would be the next couple of weeks – the Cricket World Cup. Her love for cricket was the only good thing about her.
But if I said any of that out loud, then Ghazi would know my plan.
I cleared my throat. “Of course I’m coming back. This is just a special treat for Nigel for being such a loyal houseboy.”
“You’re sure it’s not because you’re mad at me about yesterday?”
For pretending to blow all my teammates? Why would I be mad about that? I smiled down at her. “Not at all. You were great with them.”
She smiled. “Well, can you come back every night?”
I shook my head. “It’s too risky to time zone jump that much. I could easily get caught by DODO.” And I already had everything I needed from DODO.
“What should I do while you’re gone?”
I stared down at her. “Experience all the Society has to offer.”
“Like…go to every sex room?”
Well...yes.But we both knew she wasn’t going to be doing that. “The Society isn’t all sex. It has a number of state-of-the-art facilities. The ladies lounge, a gym, painting classes…”
“I’ve been to a painting class and I was not a fan. But I guess I should get in better shape. All this sex requires good stamina.”
I laughed. “You could also take photography classes so that you can send me even sexier photos of all this lesser true love searching you’ve been doing.”
She pretended to look insulted. “Are you saying my pictures haven’t been sexy?”
“Not at all.” I pulled her in close. “You know how much time I’ve spent in my masturbatorium recently.”
She laughed as I tickled her side. And then I chased her around my closet and my face ended up between her thighs. Although I shouldn’t have been surprised. Most of our evenings ended that way. I was definitely going to miss this.
***
The plane ride to India was awful. Yes, we had to take a plane. Because apparently millionaires could take a couple weeks off of work at a moment’s notice. Who knew? And Matt had decided to invite his entire family to come along too.
“Lads on tour,” muttered Nigel under his breath as we sat down in the stands. He sighed dramatically.
