The French Billionaire(51)

“I know,” she said, tears starting to fill her eyes. “But I saw how happy he was to see me, and I just couldn’t do it! It didn’t feel right. I got cold feet. I’m so sorry, Xander. I know this isn’t fair to you, or to Jayden.”

“It’s okay,” Xander said, calming down now. “We can always deal with it later. Right now, I just want to make sure you’re okay. I doubled back here after Jayden left last night, because I was so worried about you.”

“Speaking of, how did you get my address?” Mia asked. She was starting to get concerned about the fact that Xander and Jayden had both been in her apartment all night. What if they had found evidence of her secret identity, or her deal with Lillian?

“Oh, I called one of the HR people at Will Golden,” Xander said casually. “I figured they would have it. I hope you don’t mind.”

“No, not at all,” Mia said. For now, her cover seemed safely intact. She looked around the apartment. Everything seemed to be in order. None of her mail, or her computer for her detective business, had been disrupted.

“Hey,” Xander said, tenderly grabbing her hand. “I have an idea. What if we go out of town again? I think you really need to rest after all of the excitement and stress you’ve had over the past few days. We can go back to Southampton, do it right this time.”

“Are you sure we can take that much time off of work? We already skipped out early the other day.”

“I’m the boss,” Xander said with an arrogant grin. “I can do whatever I want. And Jayden’s not going to expect you to be up to doing secretarial work, after the night that you had.”

“Well, I guess you’d better call your limo, then,” Mia said, with a wink.



Xander and Mia spent the day on Xander’s private island again, relaxing on the beach with some sandwiches they had picked up on their way out of the city. They were really enjoying each other’s company, joking around and making each other laugh. But there was one problem. Jayden kept texting Mia, trying to check up on her.

After the fifth text message, Xander grabbed her phone away, tackling her in the process. “That’s it, I’m taking this!” he said, as they playfully rolled around in the sand. “You’re all mine today.”

“No, Xander, he’s just trying to be nice,” Mia said. “I’m not going to answer him or anything.”

“No, see, this is payback for not breaking up with him,” Xander said sarcastically. “No breakup, no phone.” He winked at her, but he still took her phone and went into the house, hiding it in his locked briefcase.

“Now, where were we?” he said when he came back out, finding Mia lying on the beach, eyes closed, wearing a bikini that showed off her perfectly toned stomach. He laid down next to her, and leaned over, kissing her deeply. He then pulled her on top of him, and slowly reached up to untie the strings of her bikini.

“Are you sure it’s a good idea to do this outside?” Mia said to him. “We’re sure there’s no one else on this island, right?

“It’s just you and me, babe,” he replied. “My family bought this island a few generations ago, and I’m pretty sure I’m the only one that still comes here. We’re totally safe.”

They continue to make out, and Mia started grinding her hips against his. She could feel him starting to develop an erection, and reached down to slowly remove his swim trunks. She took off her bikini bottoms and moved him inside of her, slowly and deliberately.

“Damn it, Sarah,” Xander said in a low moan. “That feels incredible.”

She slowly started to ride him, picking up speed as she went along. Although she had been worried, Mia loved the adrenaline rush of having sex outside, where anyone could have seen them. They climaxed at the same time, and she slowly rolled off of him, lying next to him in the sand again. She leaned over and kissed his neck sensually.

After a few minutes, Mia fell asleep. Xander carried her into the beach house and set her down on the bed in the master bedroom, and then joined her for a nap.

After a few hours, Xander was awakened by the pinging noise of Mia’s phone receiving a text message. Thinking that it was Jayden, sending another one of his “caring” texts, he grabbed Mia’s phone out of his briefcase.

After looking at the number for a minute, he realized that it was Lillian texting Mia! How do they know each other?



Hey love, how’s our little plan going? Looked like you were doing a great job when I saw you the other day! Keep it up!

Xander was instantly confused, and terrified. What plan!? Panicked, he started looking through the rest of her phone. He found out that her name was Mia, not Sarah, and that she was a private detective. It seemed that Lillian had hired her to look into Xander’s suspicious activity when they were still dating, and then when they broke up, she hired her to get revenge on him by seducing and then dumping him. Although, she hadn’t dumped him yet, which meant that clearly something was going wrong, because she’d had plenty of opportunity to.