The Auction Special Edition

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>They call me arrogant cold and cruel. The CEO with no heart.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>And they're right... until she walks back into my life and everything changes.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ten years ago I broke the heart of the girl I loved and she ran from me never giving me a chance to explain leaving me devastated and crushed with guilt.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now Lottie is back and working in my club. Which gives me the chance to put things right. I know she's hiding a secret from me but I can't walk away from her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When she enters an auction to sell her body I refuse to let another man touch what is mine.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I offer her a way out a marriage of convenience that will benefit us both. The contract says we'll stay married for a year.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the truth is she was mine then she's mine now and I'm never letting her go again.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When I was young Lincoln Coldwell was the hero in my story. The boy who promised me forever. Until the day I found out it was all a lie and realized a girl like me could never be enough for the billionaire tycoon.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now ten years later he's the villain who holds my future in his hands.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Drowning in a sea of debt and determined to protect the one person that means the world to me I reach for a lifeline and agree to auction off the one thing I have left to sell: my virginity.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With no place to hide I face the man who still makes my pulse quicken. But I have demands of my own. I'll give him my body for a year but he'll never have my heart again. And he can never find out the truth of what happened ten years ago.</span></p>