Page 89 of Billionaire Devil

Yes, indeed you can.

If you have missed two to seven pills anywhere in the pack, your protection against pregnancy may be affected. You should use back-up protection like condoms.

Coulda shoulda woulda.

If you’ve missed two pills or even one, make sure your partner pulls out until you’ve taken seven consecutive pills.

Bad advice and too late anyway. I was having too much fun to use any pesky back-up protection like condoms. I specifically told him we didn’t need any. Pullout? Yeah right.

Instead of behaving like a normal, sensible person, I proceeded to throw all caution to the freaking wind and fuck him like a wild animal day and night for an entire week. In gondolas where any passing skier could have easily seen us. In private jets and luxury condos and in everygoddamn penthouse suite across the continental United States.

An alert pings.

It’s the one I set up in case I got another email from Eleanor Jaeger. I wipe frustrated tears.

Hi Lila,

Myself and the rest of the design team have met, regarding your job offer. We’ve received several glowing recommendations since then and we’ve also had a thorough look through your website and social media platforms. We think you’ll be a great fit for our team. I’m thrilled to be able to offer you the job of junior design associate here at RL. We’d like you to start as soon as possible.

In addition, Mr. Colton Maddox has been in touch and we’re confident that we can also reach an agreement about a collaboration with you; this can be further discussed when you’re back in New York. We’d like to meet with you both at your earliest convenience. Mr. Maddox mentioned Monday. How would 3:15 work?

I look forward to hearing from you soon. Congratulations, Lila. We’re excited to have you on board!

Best regards,

Eleanor

Holy shit.

There’s another alert too.

New orders: 1,695.

In addition to the other 1,283.

I sit down on the bed, covering my face with my hands and I cry like a baby. With happiness, because this is absolutely my dream job—and a collaboration is beyond any fantasy I’ve never dared to dream up. With nervousness and overwhelm but also excitement, because my business is suddenly exploding. With anger, because Colton Maddox has thoroughly infiltrated himself into every single corner of my life and now I don’t know how toun-infiltrate him. With jealousy, because I absolutelyhatedthe sight of that girl who he once had a fling with, staring at him with stars in her eyes, just likeIdo (when I’m not shooting daggers, that is). With fear, becauseI’m late. And I’mmarried. And this is all just a big mess that’s way more than I can handle.Without him.

I miss him and I love him and I hate him so much.

I hear a loud bang outside the window.

“Fuck,” says a deep, familiar voice.

None other than the devil himself is climbing through my open window, his jacket long gone, blood on his hand, his shirt ripped and his hair a mess.

He’s the most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen.

“What are youdoinghere?” I seethe, because I have a lot to figure out and I can’t deal with more bombs going off inthe middle of my life right now. Which he’ll no doubt set off, like he always does.

Colton comes over to me in his disheveled suit porn and he falls to his knees in front of me, pushing my legs apart where I’m sitting on the bed, moving his big, warm body close to mine. He takes my face in his hands. “I love you, Sunshine. Please don’t leave me. I love you so much. I’m sorry. Don’t cry. I’m here now.”

“I don’t want you here!” Damn him! “You said youcouldn’tfall in love! So did Sloane. So did all the headlines about all those girls crying into their Cosmos. So didOlivia.”

“None of that matters. I don’t care about them. That was before. Before you. None of those people mean anything to me and they never did. I didn’t love them or even like them. I can’t remember their names or their faces. I know that might be hard for you to believe, but it’s fucking true. I never called them back or wanted to see them again. I nevermarriedany of them or fucking fell inlovewith them, did I? No, Sunshine, I did not. But you know what?Everythingchanged the minute I saw you at that bar at Noah’s with your silver eyes and your perfect little face. I fellin lovewith you. I think I loved you from that very first second, I just didn’t know how to recognize it right away because I’d never felt anything like that before. Not even close. It was like getting struck by a Lila-Bailey-shaped million-watt lightning bolt and I was fuckinghooked.”

God, his eyes are blue.“How am I supposed to believeanything you say when you’re flirting with every girl you see—andwho you’ve already slept with?How, Colton?”

“I wasn’t flirting. I told her to fuck off.”

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