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The Billionaire‘s Secret Desire



him that he‘d raised his voice to her. He was right, she was

being ungrateful. If Luke did what Max said, it wouldn‘t have

been easy for him. It was him that was bringing out this foul

temper in her. She was crazy about the man, and he affected her

to the point of craziness. ―Oh God Max, I‘m sorry. I must sound

horrible.‖

Thankfully he seemed to relax. She‘d never witnessed any

sort of rise in his voice before, and certainly not toward her, so

she knew she angered him. He had every right to be upset with

her. ―Finals always stress me out. Then David went all ga-ga

when he saw you. I actually thought he liked me. It just seems

that when I start getting somewhere on my own, you waft in and

the world falls at your feet.‖

Of course it wasn‘t the whole truth, but it seemed to work

because he finally gave her a sinfully delicious grin. The same

grin she had wished for earlier, now she wished she didn‘t. It

caused her stomach to momentarily spasm and she was thankful

she was in the car not standing when he did it, because there was

no way she‘d be able to keep upright. His deep voice may have

caused a quiver to go up her spine, but that grin ran through her

whole body like a vibration. Despite her condition she was

amazed that her voice sounded as steady as it did when she

continued her explanation. .―Now I know he‘s just like the rest of

them that only want to date me because I know you.‖ She waved

a submissive hand and slumped in the leather seat feeling like a

complete ass.

―Is that what you think? The world stops for Maximilian

King?‖ he said with a glitter of amusement, erasing the

annoyance he felt earlier.

She shrugged, ―Always seems that way when you walk in

a room.‖ She mumbled. ―The men suck up like there‘s no

tomorrow, and the woman do everything shy of stripping off

their clothes in a public place to get your attention.‖

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Lietha Wards

―God Lily, what an exaggeration!‖ He chuckled while

turning on the car and pulling back out onto the road. ―If that

were true, you would have made a pass at me a long time ago.

I‘ve spent more time with you than any other woman in my life.‖

He said absently choosing not to look at her to see her expression

because she would see his. If Lily made a pass at him, he

certainly wouldn‘t turn her down. He hadn‘t seen her in over a

month and if it was possible that she‘d grown more beautiful in

her absence, she did. She must be about twenty now, and she

had developed into a gorgeous woman. Of course he always

thought she was, but with his plans coming into focus on his real

intentions for her, she was even more appealing and not in the

little sister of a best friend way.

He wanted her.

Lily thought her heart just tripled its pace at that

confession and she turned away and looked out the side window

so he couldn‘t see the vulnerable expression on her face. First of

all she wouldn‘t know how to make a pass at him and it certainly

wasn‘t for lack of wanting to. She‘d never had a steady boyfriend,

and beyond a simple kiss here or there, had no idea of flirting or

intimacy. It seemed that whenever she mentioned something to

Luke about a potential beau by coincidence Max would walk into

her life and the beau would turn into an ass kissing puppet. Yet,

that confession, as brief as it was, nearly liquefied her internal

organs.

―Are we okay?‖ he slanted her a look after he hid his

expression of desire. In the past, he‘d always kept an emotional

distance from Lily treating her as his friend‘s little sister, but this

summer things were going to change, especially if she was with

him every minute of every day. There was no way in hell he

could ignore her.

―Sorry.‖ She said sheepishly, I don‘t know what got into

me.‖ He gave her an easy grin and turned his attention back to

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the road. Max was a naturally dominant male through to the

bone. To a man, he was intimidating, but to a woman, his

demeanour screamed sexual perfection. He was confident,

arrogant and highly intelligent so it was justified. Lily knew from

an early age that God made him to torture her sex. Even now,

while concentrating on the road in front of him he was appealing.

His masculine features were perfection, a strong square jaw,

straight aristocratic nose, sensual masculine mouth and those

bloody eyes that could drag a confession from a corpse. Also, he

had a body that you could fathom on a triathlon competitor. She

would know, she‘d been at his house when they‘d used the pool,

thankful that someone had invented sunglasses to stop her eyes