Her Guardian Billionaire (Forbidden First Time Romance) Read Online Free Page B

on his lips, but she stepped back.
    “Is that all I am to you? A fucking whore who’d give you her virginity for a pool house and a chauffeur?”
    “No—Anna, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have…”
    “You’re damn right. But the cat’s out of the bag now. I can’t believe I ever fantasized about you. All those years wasted.”
    “Years?” James shook his head in confusion. “You’ve wanted me for years?”
    She snorted out a hollow laugh and rolled her eyes. “What does it matter now? I see what you think of me. Here—” Unclasping the necklace from around her neck, she pulled it off and held it in her outstretched hand. “Take it. I’d hate for you to think I’d tried to earn it.”
    James closed his eyes. How did it all go so horribly wrong? He’d wanted her to leave, true, but that was for reasons all his own. Insulting her had never been his intention.
    “Anna, I’m sorry. Forget what I said. I didn’t mean it. I was pushing you away and I wasn’t thinking.” Stepping toward her, he wrapped his hands around hers and the necklace she still held. “This is yours. It’s a gift. No strings attached.”
    “Fine.” Closing her fingers around the diamond, she pulled her hand away and glanced at the floor. “I’ll make my own arrangements for leaving if you don’t mind. I’ll be out of your life by tomorrow evening.”
    “Anna—”
    She waved him off with a brush of her hand. “I don’t need your pity, Mr. Davenport. That’s never what this was about.” Turning around, she walked toward the door with her head high.  
    When she reached the door to his office, she spun and faced him. Even from across the room, he could see the hurt barely restrained on her face. “I appreciate your generosity all these years. You’ve given me everything money could buy. And for that I’m eternally grateful.”
    Pulling open the door, she walked out without even waiting for his reply.

C HAPTER T HREE

    J AMES PACED THE office, wearing a pattern into the wool pile as he stared out the windows into the dark. He’d played out their argument in slow-motion in his mind. Repeating everything he’d said, all her responses. One admission stuck out like a hidden branch, tripping him up every time—she’d fantasized about him for years.  
    Every summer, she’d show up and spend a few weeks lounging around the pool and using the gym. Always appearing on the periphery of his life. Was she…watching him? He shook his head, but it wouldn’t clear.
    In one day, Anna Sinclair had upended the natural order of things and James didn’t know what to do. He’d made it a point never to let a woman affect him—cloud his judgment, fog his brain—but she had in an instant.
    And now he paced the floor like a damn caged animal. A lion who wouldn’t know the first thing to do if it escaped. Stopping, he ground his teeth together and faced reality. He needed to let her go. That’s what a legal guardian should do. She’d be twenty-one in the morning. He’d sign the papers terminating the guardianship and she would move on.
    Leave him and his…tastes…and find a normal young man. A boy her age who could experience all the first times with her. Not a man almost twice her age who wanted her tied down and begging for it.
    He closed his eyes and pictured her—arms bound above her head, ankles tethered to the bed, ready and waiting. She made him hungry and agitated. What if she’d submit, open herself up to the passion he craved?
    God, he’d worship her for hours. Bring her to the brink again and again, give her orgasms she’d never even dreamed of. And then, when she’d surrendered completely, take her. Make her a woman and drive his cock deep until they both cried out. It’d be the best night of her life.
    Could they keep it a secret? Could they go down that road together without the press finding out? Or would some asshat with a telephoto snap a picture and splash it all over the internet? He could see the headlines