Mr. President:A Billionaire & Virgin Fake Fiance Romance(221)

Mason sees this and he immediately runs his hand down my cheek.

"Hey, babe," he says, his voice soft. "Look at me."

It takes me a moment, but eventually I open my eyes and look at him.

"I will never, ever touch that woman," he tells me, his eyes piercing  into mine. "I will never be with her. Never have an intimate moment with  her. I swear. You will never have to worry about that. The marriage  wasn't even a ceremony  …  just paperwork. It's not even worth talking  about."

Maybe it's the intensity by which he says it, or maybe it's how he's looking at me, but I believe him.

I do. I swear. I may not know all of what's going on, but I know at least that he's telling me the truth.

Please, don't worry about me, okay? Instead, just help me figure out what's going on with Mason.

"Why are you guys even married in the first place?" I ask him, my eyes flashing curiosity as he smiles. "I mean, what the fuck?"

He shrugs. "I'm still trying to figure out what she can get from me,"  Mason says to me, as his hands run idly down the curves of my body. "All  I know is that I need to be careful. She's been after my company for a  long time."         

     



 

"Kane Price?" I ask. He nods.

"She's had her eye on it since before I went public," he says to me.  "She had her fucking eye on it even while her dad was alive. She'll do  anything to get it."

"She'll do anything to get what she wants," I say, and almost  instinctively I scooch closer on the bed next to him. I wrap my arms  around him. "Don't let her get you, please."

Mason wraps his arms around me.

"What did she ever do to you?" he asks, genuinely concerned. I mean, come on. The way I'm acting would concern anyone.

"There's too much hurt and too much pain with her, Mason," I tell him, nestling my face into his chest. "She's taken too much."

There's a pause from Mason as he kisses the top of my head.

"Has she ever taken someone you loved?" he asks me.

I draw my head back and look him in the eye.

I'm astonished, you know?

It's like this guy is so attuned to how I think. He knows me on a deeper level.

I mean, I didn't even tell you some of the things that Mom has done to me. But he seems to know just by holding me.

"Never anyone I loved," I tell him, speaking softly. "She never gave me a chance to fall in love."

Mason's quiet as I think back to the litany of relationships that Mom has reveled in ruining for me.

"My senior year in high school, on the night I thought was going to be  magical, I walked in on her giving my prom date a blowjob on my bed," I  recount, my eyes glazing over. "When I walked in she just looked at me  and told me she was busy and would I mind waiting in the living room."

Mason is silent, holding me as I think back to my interactions with Mom.

"She's broken up every relationship I've ever had," I say to him. "I  never brought a guy home from college because she'd seduce them. I knew.  So instead, she would visit me at school."

I think back to those days, still relatively recent. Mom showing up in  my dorm with a short skirt and tight blouse. Enticing all the guys.  Ruining them for me.

"She knows exactly how I feel about it," I tell Mason. "I've told her  before. But she doesn't care. She does it to hurt me. Because she sees  my Dad in me. She keeps me around and hurts me to get back at him."

I would continue, but Mason pulls me closer.

"She'll never hurt you again, baby girl," he tells me, kissing my forehead. "Not while I'm here with you."

You remember how I told you I believed Mason when he told me he'd never touch Mom again?

Well, I believe him now too.

Especially when he brings his mouth closer to my face and kisses my forehead then pulls back to look at me.

"I promise you," are his only words.

At some point, I'm going to have to start trusting him, aren't I?

It would be weird if I didn't.

Because I'm already starting to fall in love with him, you know?

We lie there a long time, quietly, until eventually I fall asleep in his arms.





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MarketWatch Journal Flash Update





In an unexpected twist to the drama already surrounding Wall Street bad  boy Mason Kane, inside sources claim that he is now the subject of an  internal power struggle that may lead to a vote of no confidence at the  next shareholder meeting.

According to sources who requested anonymity because they are close to  the situation, Mason Kane has repeatedly disregarded potentially  lucrative investment advice that would have significantly added to the  revenues of Kane Price.

While no set vote of no confidence has been scheduled yet, it's enough  to have spooked both investors and clients. Kane Price stock tumbled 10%  on the news as rumors spread that the Firm's clients were pulling their  money out. As yet, no high-profile names have announced any withdrawals  or liquidations from the bank, but many are worried that further bad  publicity will prompt them to do so.

Kane Price has been in the news quite a few times recently, first with  the antics of Mason Kane, who was caught in a compromising sexual  position with a television reporter during the time of broadcast, that  sparked outrage among moral conservatives, and then more recently as  Mason Kane announced a whirlwind engagement and marriage to noted  shareholder activist Lorna Lowell.

Many have speculated that Mr. Kane, who styles himself the King of Wall  Street, has married Lorna in an effort to repair his tarnished image.  However those people also point out that at the same time as marrying  Lorna, he has elevated her to a position of great confidence-that of  Chief Investment Counsel for the entire Kane Price firm.

In her role, it is the now Mrs. Lorna Kane who is advising on special  investments designed to increase the Firm's bottom line. These  investments are generally of an experimental nature and may or may not  fall outside of the Firm's traditional portfolio of products. However  the revenue they generate may be used to entice clients to increase  their buy-in into other products and instruments.

Mr. Kane had set an ambitious agenda at the beginning of the year in  which he planned to unveil newer and more revolutionary financial  products. Many speculate that his tarnished reputation may have led  Mason Kane to marry Lorna Lowell in a bid to bring an air of credibility  and legitimacy to his position at the company and prevent a flight of  capital from the traditionally button down clientele of Wall Street.

In the past, Mason Kane has lived a lavish lifestyle and has been called  at times the Bad Boy of Wall Street, or the King of Wall Street. He has  been romantically linked to a revolving door of actresses, pornographic  film stars, models, pop singers, heiresses, as well as a bevy of other  women, almost all of them young. Many hail him as the standard bearer of  male chauvinism in an era of political correctness.

But with his increasingly hostile stance with his corporate officers,  including but not limited to his recently married wife, many believe  that Kane Price is headed toward a reckoning that will either settle  this question once and for all or destroy the Firm in an implosion  unseen since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.

Only time will tell.





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Becca





There has to be something here! I can tell there's something here underneath the surface.

This company is trying to hide something. You know that feeling you get  when you can tell that something isn't right about a person or place,  but you just can't spot it or put your finger on it?

Well, that's how I feel about Red Lion Aviation.

There just seems to be something that doesn't add up.

I mean, if Mason hadn't told me on his own like he did earlier, then I  would have been researching them anyways. Half the company is making the  case for Red Lion. The other half is making the case against them.

It's like Kane Price is fighting a civil war within its walls. On one  side are people who are listening to Lorna, thinking they should go in  and invest in the company for a very substantial stake.

On the other hand are people like Mason who are getting their sixth sense tingling when they see the reports on this company.

Don't get me wrong. There's nothing overtly wrong with them. On paper  they seem to have solid fundamentals. They are turning a slight profit  every quarter. They seem to be expanding. They don't have any major  safety issues  …  recently, anyways.

But they just seem too....manufactured. Too shiny. As if there is a rottenness hiding inside.

Here is what I know so far, in case you wanted to Google them.

Red Lion Aviation is headquartered in Malaysia. They trade on the New York, Frankfurt, London, and NASDAQ stock exchanges.

They were founded ten years ago by an Indonesian oil tycoon and were  based in Jakarta, Indonesia before moving their operations over to Kuala  Lumpur, Malaysia.

They run flights between Sydney, Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Bali, KL, and other cities in Southeast Asia.

An investment the size that Mom is talking about would significantly  increase their reach and they would start offering flights into the  lucrative US market.