Total pages in book: 158
Estimated words: 156392 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 782(@200wpm)___ 626(@250wpm)___ 521(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 156392 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 782(@200wpm)___ 626(@250wpm)___ 521(@300wpm)
I’m disoriented as he snaps a picture of me propped against a bathroom sink, skirt bunched to my waist, arse in the air, and my underwear filling my mouth.
“Fascinating,” he whispers before he turns around and disappears.
Leaving me unsatisfied, infuriated, and feeling dreadful about how this little episode changes everything.
13
ELI
Landon
I’ve learned something distinctively interesting.
Remington
And? You’re going to have us beg before you spell it out?
Landon
That’s a good start. On your knees, peasant.
Remington
This bitch seems to forget that my lordship outranks him in every sense of that word. You’re the one who needs to bow down before my noble presence.
Landon
I’d rather be stranded in the Sahara and survive on eating sand.
Creighton
@Lan.King, is this by any chance concerning my ‘beloved’ brother?
Eli
Why is the beloved in quotes?
Remington
*GIF of a kid rolling their eyes* Because he doesn’t mean it. OBVIOUSLY. My spawn Creigh loves me more than you. Trust.
Keep floundering in your delusions while the rest of us are busy doing grown-up things.
Remington
Such as?
Building actual empires.
Remington
And making the world a worse place.
Not worse than the possible spawns you’ve littered all over Europe.
Remington
Hey. I believe in protection, thank you very much. I have a line of earls to protect. You, however, are only interested in foolish power.
Brandon
Aren’t you being too hard on yourself, @E.King? I know how passionate you are about King Enterprises and Steel Corporation, but I don’t believe it’s worth the stress.
Landon
@Bran.K That’s where you and our dear cousin differ, baby bro. Eli is content with swallowing half the world for breakfast and plotting to devour the other half for supper. It’s not greed. It’s his intolerably incessant need to fill that black hole inside him with some semblance of power. Kind of camouflages the perished soul he left in his mother’s womb.
My. Did the psycho become a therapist? Stunning progress, Lan. *Gif of slow clapping*
Remington
He’s not entirely wrong, you know. Stop pressuring the rest of us to be your version of control freaks.
Because laziness is more becoming of you?
Brandon
Remi’s mum and both his/your grandparents are still part of the corporation. Perhaps you should take it easy on him.
Remington
My man. Thank you! Finally, someone said it.
Our grandparents are only there in name at this point. All the weight falls on your mum and me. Either you help out properly or remove your unpleasant presence from my vicinity.
Landon
Someone didn’t get his cock sucked this morning.
Creighton
Worse. His wife nearly kissed her secondary school sweetheart in front of him two days ago. He’s been an utter joy since.
He is not her secondary school sweetheart.
Creighton
Denial doesn’t negate facts. Bro was stressed.
E.King removed C.King from the chat.
Lord.Remi added C.King to the chat.
Remington
My, my. No wonder he has his head so far up his arse, he can hardly breathe. So Ava’s playing with fire again?
Creighton
Safe to say, she’s dousing herself with petrol at this point.
Since when are you this talkative, @C.King? Shouldn’t you be sodding off with your girl and saving us from your unwanted presence?
Remington
Details, @C.King?
Brandon
Did it turn ugly?
Creighton
Pretty sure shagging happened in the bathroom while they stranded us in the restaurant.
No such thing.
Creighton
Please. You stayed in there for twenty minutes and she came back with so many murder plots in her eyes, you could’ve seen them from across the pond.
Landon
*Gif of evil laughter* My favorite firecracker Barbie.
My wife will be your least favorite anything once I’m finished with you.
Landon
Shaking in my boots as we speak. Brb, let me call my mummy for emotional support. Also, word on the street is that you dragged her kicking and screaming to the altar, so you can drop the act and stop calling her your wife whenever you get the chance.
Brandon
Stop provoking him, Lan.
Landon
Only after I die. Though I’ve thought of ways to haunt all of you from the grave *slow smirk emoji*
Remington
I don’t understand why someone as gracious as Mia would ever be with a heathen like you.
Landon
Stay jealous of my perfect relationship.
Creighton
What’s the interesting tidbit you learned, @Lan.King?
Landon
Oh, nothing much. Only that something drastic could’ve happened to Barbie prior to her latest unfortunate ‘accident.’
Remington
The plot thickens.
Creighton
You mean it wasn’t an accident?
Landon
We can only call it an accident if Eli wasn’t involved. Seeing that he was clearly present at the scene of the crime, I have my doubts.
Brandon
He’s just messing with you, right, @E.King?
Creighton
Eli?
E.King has left the chat.
Ihave come to the grim conclusion that my wife has the destructive energy of a world war and the emotional IQ of a plastic flower.
And while I pride myself in being a man in control concerning all the happenings in my life—emotions and future plans included—I have inevitably hit a jarring obstacle in the form of a pink chiffon skirt and a cream crop top.
“What are you wearing?” I grit my teeth as I stroll into my kitchen and glare at the material hugging her round, perky nipples and stopping right above her exposed belly button.