Billionaire Romance: Darque Shadows (A Darque Billionaire Romance Book 3) Read Online Free
Author: Diana Steele
contract, Arabella. This is not a romantic relationship. This is a contract for sex. You want to go places? You want to have your dream career? Then deliver. I’ll meet you outside.”
He didn’t leave her much choice since he left the restaurant in a hurry. He sat outside in the red sports car, taking his time and waiting for Bella to come and cater to him. He was getting hard at just the idea of forcing Bella to strip down in public. Maybe he would take her right there in the car. Or maybe he would spank her again for her disrespect.
He heard her footsteps approaching. He began stroking his penis as he waited for her to open the door and get in.
To his shock, Bella brought her mother out to meet him. She opened the door and let her mother get in the backseat.
“Hello, handsome! Bella just told me the secret. You’re her new boyfriend!”
Bastien opened his eyes wide in panic. “Ohhhhh?”
Bella scooted into the backseat after Merva and grinned, playing a mind game right back at her ‘captor’ who insisted on making this a non-relationship.
“So why have you been keeping this a secret?”
“Keeping…what?”
“I don’t bite,” Merva said. “At least not very hard!”
Bella laughed it off. Bastien was forced to laugh and play it cool, almost in that same awkward way that he joked with TV journalists on television. He had no evil side, not with the press anyway. He had to be affable on camera. And to be dragged into a car with one of his slaves and her mother…yeah, the closest thing imaginable had to be a TV interview.
“I…I know,” Darque said, flinching in front of Merva. “It is very…strange.”
“So how did you two meet?”
“Uhh…”
“You look familiar,” Merva said. “Have you ever been to Delta Bingo?”
“What?” he asked, quite horrified. “What-What is that?”
“Well, it’s a place where people play bingo. I could have sworn I saw you.”
“No…no, I definitely have never set foot in that place.”
“Oh, too bad. You know, you seem kind of shy. I always pictured Bella with a talkative fellow. Her first boyfriend was that way. Affable. Conversational. But he had secrets, I suppose.”
Bastien shook his head and delivered a toothy fake smile. “Well, then…I guess I should be going now.”
“So soon? It seems as if we just met. Do you want to go to dinner somewhere?”
“No, no, noooo, most definitely not. I have to be somewhere. But I’ll see Bella at wo…I mean, after work tomorrow. For our…date?”
“I’m really happy to hear that Bella has met someone.” She smiled and patted a confused Bastien on the shoulder. “You’re the best looking fellow she’s ever been with. Which isn’t saying too much.”
“Okay, mother. That’s enough. You met him. Now you can stop asking me!”
Bella took plenty of liberties that night and added another loving, friendly ‘tap’ to her Dom’s shoulder, breaking all protocol and delivering a resounding message. Stay out of my personal life . It was what they both wanted, as they both seemed to sense the futility of the non-relationship. The natural end. The inevitable earthquake that would set them apart and never speaking to each other again. However, there seemed to be an unmistakable feeling of tragedy from that point forward, and damned if either of them knew why.
Darque certainly couldn’t explain it, and he seemed okay with living in denial that he ever did the unthinkable and accidentally met one of his submissive’s mothers. However, he wasn’t above gloating about it. It just wasn’t in the way Bella anticipated.
She entered Darque’s office the next morning, as always right at eleven A.M. when he took time off working on his laptop for a snack.
“So…I assume you’re outraged about last night. And I’m reporting in for punishment.”
“Why in the world did you do that?”
“I don’t know. I guess I wanted you to know that I’m not just some whore. I know we’re not a thing…or
He didn’t leave her much choice since he left the restaurant in a hurry. He sat outside in the red sports car, taking his time and waiting for Bella to come and cater to him. He was getting hard at just the idea of forcing Bella to strip down in public. Maybe he would take her right there in the car. Or maybe he would spank her again for her disrespect.
He heard her footsteps approaching. He began stroking his penis as he waited for her to open the door and get in.
To his shock, Bella brought her mother out to meet him. She opened the door and let her mother get in the backseat.
“Hello, handsome! Bella just told me the secret. You’re her new boyfriend!”
Bastien opened his eyes wide in panic. “Ohhhhh?”
Bella scooted into the backseat after Merva and grinned, playing a mind game right back at her ‘captor’ who insisted on making this a non-relationship.
“So why have you been keeping this a secret?”
“Keeping…what?”
“I don’t bite,” Merva said. “At least not very hard!”
Bella laughed it off. Bastien was forced to laugh and play it cool, almost in that same awkward way that he joked with TV journalists on television. He had no evil side, not with the press anyway. He had to be affable on camera. And to be dragged into a car with one of his slaves and her mother…yeah, the closest thing imaginable had to be a TV interview.
“I…I know,” Darque said, flinching in front of Merva. “It is very…strange.”
“So how did you two meet?”
“Uhh…”
“You look familiar,” Merva said. “Have you ever been to Delta Bingo?”
“What?” he asked, quite horrified. “What-What is that?”
“Well, it’s a place where people play bingo. I could have sworn I saw you.”
“No…no, I definitely have never set foot in that place.”
“Oh, too bad. You know, you seem kind of shy. I always pictured Bella with a talkative fellow. Her first boyfriend was that way. Affable. Conversational. But he had secrets, I suppose.”
Bastien shook his head and delivered a toothy fake smile. “Well, then…I guess I should be going now.”
“So soon? It seems as if we just met. Do you want to go to dinner somewhere?”
“No, no, noooo, most definitely not. I have to be somewhere. But I’ll see Bella at wo…I mean, after work tomorrow. For our…date?”
“I’m really happy to hear that Bella has met someone.” She smiled and patted a confused Bastien on the shoulder. “You’re the best looking fellow she’s ever been with. Which isn’t saying too much.”
“Okay, mother. That’s enough. You met him. Now you can stop asking me!”
Bella took plenty of liberties that night and added another loving, friendly ‘tap’ to her Dom’s shoulder, breaking all protocol and delivering a resounding message. Stay out of my personal life . It was what they both wanted, as they both seemed to sense the futility of the non-relationship. The natural end. The inevitable earthquake that would set them apart and never speaking to each other again. However, there seemed to be an unmistakable feeling of tragedy from that point forward, and damned if either of them knew why.
Darque certainly couldn’t explain it, and he seemed okay with living in denial that he ever did the unthinkable and accidentally met one of his submissive’s mothers. However, he wasn’t above gloating about it. It just wasn’t in the way Bella anticipated.
She entered Darque’s office the next morning, as always right at eleven A.M. when he took time off working on his laptop for a snack.
“So…I assume you’re outraged about last night. And I’m reporting in for punishment.”
“Why in the world did you do that?”
“I don’t know. I guess I wanted you to know that I’m not just some whore. I know we’re not a thing…or
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