A BILLIONAIRE AFTER DARK
The Overnight Billionaires, 2
Katie Lane
March 29, 2016
It's an undisputed fact that Nash Beaumont is the hottest of the Beaumont brothers. His slow, sensual smile charms every French Kiss employee-and tempts every woman to buy the company's lingerie. But beneath Nash's raw charisma is a dark, kinky side that he struggles to control . . . a side that may be exposed by one lovely-and unexpectedly adventurous woman.
Reporter Eden Huckabee needs a story. And when she discovers Nash's dirty little secret, she thinks she's found it. But Eden doesn't count on Nash turning the tables on her-or that she will fall so deeply for this unbelievably sexy, one-in-a-billion Beaumont.
My Thoughts:
Okay, I was a little worry about reading a reporter heroine. Here's why: Sometimes they tend to be ballbusters, and I will take anyone down to get a story. Then you meet Eden Huckabee, and she totally reminded me of Drew Barrymore's Josie Gellar in Never Been Kiss. So, A Billionaire After Dark is kind of like Never Been Kiss where we have a journalist going undercover to find her perfect story. Eden like Josie tends to get too close to her project in the journalist prospective lost sight of it, but actually gained more. Time to focus on Eden and Nash.
Okay, I was a little worry about reading a reporter heroine. Here's why: Sometimes they tend to be ballbusters, and I will take anyone down to get a story. Then you meet Eden Huckabee, and she totally reminded me of Drew Barrymore's Josie Gellar in Never Been Kiss. So, A Billionaire After Dark is kind of like Never Been Kiss where we have a journalist going undercover to find her perfect story. Eden like Josie tends to get too close to her project in the journalist prospective lost sight of it, but actually gained more. Time to focus on Eden and Nash.
At first I thought I wasn't going to like Eden, because of the whole reporter thing, but the more you get to know her, she's not reporter material. Like I said she gets a little to close to her subjects and uses flowery words instead of getting straight to her facts. However, she's tenacious and will go after what she thinks she wants even though it might be totally wrong. Now Nash. He's the charming Beaumont that women just through themselves at. However, he has a dark secret that he keeps secret. His brothers only know a little. Even though his kink isn't all that kinky. Like all Beaumonts he does have a good heart just a little misguided at times, especially when Nash has to come face to face with his past.
As I started to dive into A Billionaire After Dark I started enjoyed Nash and Eden. Eden is a funny character, because she's so unlike her family. I mean her grandparents are the nudist from the first book. Those grandparents, oh poor Eden. Her grandparents are definitely hippies with their magic brownies and keep her on her toes, especially at Lover's Ball. I did like Eden, because once she got to know Nash, Chloe, and Madison she wanted to be their friend more than the story. I did like how she helped Nash realize he's not the only that caused the issue in the past. Overall, a pretty good story and I can't wait to see what happens to Grayson and Chloe. He's not going to have an easy time with that girl.
Copy provided by Forever Romance via NetGalley
Excerpt:
“How did you
become an escort?”
There was a slight
hesitation before she answered. “My
friend got me into it.”
“Some friend.”
Another
pause. “Actually, she is a pretty good
friend. She’s one of those people who
sees the glass as always being full—like to the brim.”
“And you’re not?”
“I wouldn’t say
that. I see the glass as half-full, and
it’s my job to get the water to the top.”
He laughed. “You sound like my oldest brother. He views everything as his job.”
She joined in with
his laughter. It was a hearty laugh,
almost too loud for a woman. But he
liked it. He liked its sincerity and
lack of inhibition. “You figured me
out,” she said. “I am the oldest. I have two younger brothers. Both pains in the butt.”
“I think that’s
the job of younger brothers.”
“Is your younger
brother a pain?”
The smile wilted
on his face. “I didn’t say I had a
younger brother.”
“Oh,” she
said. “I guess I just assumed you had
another brother when you were talking about your oldest brother.”
The tension left
his shoulders. But the scare was a
strong reminder that he had no business sharing information with the
woman. “No more talking,” he said. “Take off your dress.”
“In the dark? But how will you see?”
He got up from the
chair. “I’ll use my imagination.”
There was a long
pause, and he wondered if she would leave.
Physical force played no part in the equation, but he couldn’t help
getting up and positioning himself between her and the door. There was a whisper of material.
“It’s off,” she
said.
It was strange,
but having the lights off seemed to make everything more intense. He could hear her breathing. Smell her sweet, earthy scent. And visualize exactly what she looked like in
nothing but her bra and boy shorts. His
penis came to full attention once again, and he found it hard to speak around
the desire that clogged his throat.
“Now your
bra.” He moved closer to the bed. “Hand it to me.” Something soft brushed his bare stomach, and
he reached for it, his fingers curling around the bra. After a year at French Kiss, he knew his
bras. It was slightly padded, and the
material wasn’t top-grade. As for the
size, he would guess 34B. He lifted the
cup to his nose, and her herbal scent filled his nostrils.
“Now the panties,”
he said, his voice muffled in the cotton.
This time, she took longer. So
long that he moved a step closer, his leg brushing the mattress.
“Promise you won’t
turn on the light? Not that I’m deformed
or anything. I just don’t exactly have a
perfect body.” She was talking with her hands again. He could feel the shift of air.
“From here, it
looks pretty perfect to me.”
Another pause
before a whisper of material and her hand brushed a line of fire across the
ridged fly of his jeans. He drew in a
sharp breath and tried to calm the heat that ate its way through him as she
apologized in a husky voice.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that you were . . . so
close.”
Oh, he was close, all right. It would only take one stroke from her fist
for him to shoot the moon. He gritted
his teeth. “Lie down.”
“I’m not having
sex with—”
“No, dammit! We are not
having sex!” He didn’t know if he was
yelling at her or himself. Thinking he
had frightened her, he started to apologize when she came right back at him.
“Well, how the
heck do I know that? I’m naked!” He
could feel the shift of air as her hands waved.
“You’re obviously naked. And sex
is usually what happens when two people are alone in a bedroom naked.”
He released a
frustrated sigh. “Granted. But it’s not going to happen with us.”
“Why?”
He could’ve lied,
but concealed by darkness, he chose not to.
“Because then I wouldn’t be a fucked-up pervert. I’d just be a loser who has to pay for sex. Now please lie down.”
“Fine.”
The thump of butt
to mattress made his anger leave, but none of his desire. Especially when he
heard the wisp of skin against the satin of the duvet. He could picture her now. Awkwardly stretched out on the bed like she
had been the other night. But now she
was naked. Completely naked. And all his.
He should’ve
return to the chair. He was too
close. But maybe this would be the final
test. If he could resist when a naked
woman was only inches away, it would prove that he had control over his
body.
And hers.
“Scoot over,” he
said. “I’m not going to touch you. I’m just going to lie next to you.” He waited to hear her shifting before he
lowered himself to the bed. The satin
still held her heat. But rather than
further ignite him, it calmed him enough that he was able to roll to his side
and face her.
“Now I want you to
close your eyes and touch yourself. And
everywhere you touch, I want you to tell me what you feel . . . everything that
you feel.”
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Katie Lane is the USA Today bestselling author of the Deep in the Heart of Texas and Hunk for the Holiday series. Katie lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and when she isn't writing, enjoys reading, going to the gym, golfing, traveling, or just snuggling next to her high school sweetheart and cairn terrier Roo.
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