COLD INNOCENCE (snowed in with the billionaire #1) (billionaire erotic romance) Read Online Free

me. Crazy under those casual clothes… desperate in her business
attire. Am I right?”
    Stephanie swallowed hard, memories clogging
her mind. The name Steph meant so much more than Nathaniel
knew or thought he knew with his charming smile and sensual
words.
    “You don’t know me,” Stephanie said.
    Her appetite started on a decline and she
was happy she got what little in her stomach she did. Pulling along
the past sometimes felt like a four hundred pound weight. Thinking
about it only made it heavier. Talking about it made everything
worse.
    “Tell me about Steph,” Nathaniel said.
“There’s no way you’re a Stephanie by heart or nature. I can see
through that. Maybe you’re Stephanie for this company you work for.
Try to impress the bosses with a proper, long name? I’d rather see
Steph… the wild executive with black laced stockings…”
    “And who are you?” Stephanie asked. “Since
we’re stuck together, just tell me, who are you?”
    “I own a little company,” Nathaniel
said. “Sometimes I just like to get up here, in the woods, and let
my mind relax. But I doubt there’ll be any relaxing going on this
weekend.”
    He smiled and Stephanie turned her head. She
told herself to keep her guard up, keep the wall up high. Don’t
crack. Don’t mess around…
    “I also find it in the best interest of
those around me to listen when I speak,” Nathaniel said. “To
actually hear me, understand me, appreciate what I’m saying.
Because, my Steph, I’m always right.”
    “When are you going to stop calling me
Steph?”
    Stephanie looked at Nathaniel with a serious
face. She was angry and wanted him to know it.

    “Why would I stop? That is your name.”
    “That’s not me,” Stephanie said.
“ Steph is the little girl left by her family. Steph is the teenager who walked a lost path. Steph is the woman
who let the first man she saw into her life and had all innocence
shattered and taken away. Steph… ”
    Stephanie froze.
    Had she really just said all that?
    Did she really just have that kind of
outburst?
    For no reason… to a complete stranger?
    “Well I,” Nathaniel said, rising from his
chair, “am going to introduce you to a new Steph…”
    He walked the table slowly, fixing his tie
and sliding out of his jacket. He threw the suit jacket to another
table. Silverware clanked off plates, then left the room in
complete silence. Stephanie’s eyes were drawn to him, to this
beautiful man, and she leaned back in her chair, knowing damn well
she could have gotten up too and walked away.
    But she didn’t.
    She didn’t want to walk away.
    Nathaniel took Stephanie’s hand and smiled.
“My how fast we’re willing to speak when the right spot is touched,
isn’t it?”
    “You own a small business?”
    “Sort of small,” Nathaniel said. “Used to be
bigger. I sold a couple companies I owned last year.”
    “Companies?”
    “I’m a man of everything. I see, I want, I
get. Always, Steph, always. If something – or someone – doesn’t
comply, doesn’t listen, then it moves on. No matter the storm
waiting outside.” Nathaniel paused and his face turned to stone.
His eyes spoke louder than any words could have. He seduced
Stephanie with those eyes, her body feeling weak and in need.
“Would it turn you on if I told you I’m a billionaire?”
    “Would it matter?” Stephanie replied.
    “That’s the kind of answer I was looking
for,” Nathaniel said. “Nothing matters, Steph, you’re right. Not
your past, not who you think you are. All that matters is what I
think and what I want.”
    Stephanie shook her hand away from
Nathaniel.
    He was a stranger.
    A sexy stranger.
    A sexy, billionaire stranger.
    Stephanie pushed back in her chair and
Nathaniel quickly slid his foot behind it, stopping her. She gasped
for air and then watched as he came down to her, his face close
enough that she could feel the heat from his body. His rough
cologne moved through her senses and body like a fire. His