Her Billionaire Secret Part 2: An Alpha Billionaire Romance by Jenna Chase, Elise Kelby Read Free Book Online

Chapter One
    SATURDAY
    CLAIRE
    The sound of movement in the room filtered through Claire’s drowsy state.
    Then the smell of coffee.
    Finally the realisation she was still draped across Tevis Drummond’s chest. His arm lay loosely across her back.
    “Good morning, Tevis.”
    No!
    Josie was in the room. Claire kept her eyes closed, not wanting to face the embarrassment.
    “Good morning, Josie.” She could hear the smile in his voice. “Thank you for the coffee. Don’t worry about breakfast; it may be a while before we are down. We’ll fix our own.”
    What the hell did he mean by that? The quicker she pulled herself off him and got out of bed, the better. The man was an irresistible temptation and even now her treacherous body was craving more of what he’d done to her last night.
    The sound of coffee cups being placed on the nightstand close to her head was followed by silence. A long silence, broken only by the sound of their breathing.
    “You can open your eyes now.”
    Claire shot across the bed, dragging the sheets with her.
    “I think you might want to give me some of those back,” Tevis laughed, as he crossed his arms behind his head and glanced down at his naked body.
    His cock was erect, tantalising, and calling to her inner demon to climb on top and open herself up to him.
    She threw his share of the sheets back at him. “Cover the damned thing up, you bastard.”
    Tevis laughed. “The lady doth protest too much I think. That, or you’re not a morning person.” He pointed to the two cups by his side. “Coffee, Claire?”
    It wasn’t a caffeine deficiency problem at all. It was him.
    Why did men like him have to exist? Money didn’t mean anything to her. Neither did power. She’d seen it all before and didn’t want any of it. But Tevis Drummond was living, talking, walking sex appeal and he damned well knew it. Somehow, every defence she’d built up around herself disintegrated when he was around. It must be in her genes to be attracted to a man like him. It had to be. Because if it wasn’t, why the hell did she give in so easily and ask him to fuck her. And not any gentle fuck, she’d demanded to be taken hard. Where on earth had that come from?
    Grabbing her robe from under her pillow, she sat up and put it on before walking round to his side of the bed. At her feet were her torn panties and she couldn’t help looking from them to Tevis. His eyebrows were raised and his grin even wider. At least he’d covered his cock. Narrowing her eyes to tell him not to say a word, she grabbed a cup of coffee and walked over to the window.
    The infuriating robe was still far too short. He could probably see her naked ass from where he was lying. Resisting the urge to tug the robe down, she drank down her coffee in one go. Clattering the cup back down on the nightstand, she strode over to the bathroom door.
    She stepped into the room. “I’m taking a shower.”
    “Want me to join you?”
    “No!”
    “Shame. You know it would be fun.”   Even his teasing was sexy. His voice was deep and seductive with a promise of dirty. Very dirty.
    On the other side of the bathroom, hanging on hooks, two long white towelling robes taunted her.
    Claire slammed the bathroom door. Hard. If she’d had the courage, she’d have opened it again and told Tevis Drummond exactly what she thought of him.
    She paused at that thought. Her thoughts about Tevis were mixed up, conflicting. On the one hand, he was so damned cocky, arrogant and sure that he would get her, but on the other, he’d held her so gently after they’d made…
    God, she’d almost said the ‘L’ word!
    Love wasn’t in the vocabulary of a man like Tevis. She knew it better than most. Her mother had fallen for that line. Claire had promised herself, never to let someone like him get to her. He wasn’t safe. He had the capacity to hurt.
    Stepping into the walk-in shower, she tried to push all thought of him out of her mind. It was impossible, his