Page 2 of Challenging the Billionaire
“You’ve dropped enough hints about wanting to go.” He was on his third glass of champagne, although he drank this one more slowly. “Thought it was about time for us to jet away for a few days and play hard. We leave in two weeks.”
“I… there’s no return date.”
“Because we’re going for a while. Monaco is just the beginning, my flower.” He held up his champagne glass. “Rome. Barcelona. Wherever you want to go. Although keeping it to Europe would be the most practical.”
“Can we go to Ireland?”
His lips did not twitch. “I haven’t been there in forever. Sure.”
Jasmine caught an extra meaning behind his glistening eyes. “Of course we can go to Rome, too.”Wouldn’t want him to miss out on a chance to meet his precious Italy again.Jasmine found her boyfriend’s enthrallment with the Italian peninsula quite amusing. The man wore Italian suits, drove Italian cars, and even spoke the language fluently. On special nights she convinced him to seduce her in Italian. Just thinking about it made her shiver.
She put the tickets on top of the table and returned to her boyfriend with a huge grin on her face. “You spoil me so much,” she said sweetly, sinking back into his lap and placing a kiss on his cheek. “Thank you.”
“I love spoiling you.” His hand was in her hair, tugging at it tenderly. “You make it so easy by just being you.”
Jasmine couldn’t stop a giggle falling from her lips. “I love you.”
“I love you too, Sweet Flower.”
They kissed, Jasmine intending it to be brief, but Ethan going for it as he always did. There was no holding back for that man. Even in public he would kiss his girlfriend as if nobody else watched. More than once they showed up in the gossip pages locking lips and pawing at each other. Some people called it tasteless. As long as Ethan didn’t care, Jasmine didn’t either.I’m up for the whole world seeing that this man is all mine.She had a feeling it was a mutual thought.
Nevertheless, Ethan’s pursuit of her throat and the hem of her dress distracted her from her own motives that night. Jasmine felt his cock begin to harden beneath her thigh and begrudgingly pulled away from his mouth. “Ethan…” she began, tentatively. “Hold on.”
He gave a final kiss to her throat before sitting up in the chair. “What is it? Are you already on your period again? Because Ihonestlydon’t care…”
“What? No.”Why the hell are you bringing that up?And what did he mean by again? Jasmine knew the days rolled by like clouds, but she wasn’t abnormal in any regard… “I have a present for you. Well, a surprise, really. We can’t do it yet until you see it?”
“Oh?” Ethan shrugged. “Let’s see it, then. I’m interested to see what you got me.”
Ethan was enough trouble as it was to shop for. This stoic Virgo, however, nearly teared up when Jasmine presented him with a crystal and silver chess set for his birthday. Chess was one of his biggest ways to unwind, and he often lamented not having a set in the penthouse.So I got him one.It stood by the big windows overlooking the city right now.
Jasmine got off his lap and beckoned him to follow her to the bedroom. “Let’s go, Mr. Cole. It’s in here.”
Although he didn’t say anything, Jasmine sensed the intrigue in his eyes. Ethan was a man who liked to be kept guessing in his relationships. Well, did Jasmine ever have a surprise for him.
The lights went off in the main room. Jasmine sat on her side of the bed and opened the nightstand.
“Don’t tell me… new toys?” Ethan’s droll tone conveyed how much he would like that to be true. He never was much of a bedroom toy man, but over the months Jasmine had convinced him that sometimes it was A-OK to buzz up the girlfriend’s loins.
“You could say that.” Jasmine patted the end of the bed. “Sit down. This can only be appreciated with us both sitting here.”
His eyebrows went up. “Yes, ma’am.”
The bed sank under his weight as he first sat down and then reclined across the bed. Most nights he would want to take control and leave Jasmine little room to assert her own bedroom authority. But tonight he seemed more than willing to humor her for a while. Probably because it was their anniversary… and because he had half a bottle of wine and three glasses of champagne in his system.I bet I could cowgirl him tonight.Ooh, or reverse cowgirl! It was their anniversary, after all. Only right that stars shoot across her eyelids as she orgasmed.
“All right, are you ready for this amazingness?” Jasmine wrapped her hand around her surprise. “Don’t worry, it’s not a pegger.”
For the first time all night Ethan looked at her in shock. “Uh…”
“I just said itwasn’t!” Boy, that would be a hoot.I’d only do that if I wanted to make sure he never looked at me for a week.There was no way Jasmine was coming around Ethan’s ass with anything strapped to her hips. Not unless she wanted to make him feel more uncomfortable than a mouse in a room full of cats.
“Let’s see it, then.”
Jasmine flopped it onto the bed between them, watching Ethan’s bemused gaze as he slowly reached out to take it into his hand.
“It’s a…”
“Agame.”
