Sexy Beast: A Sexy Billionaire Romance

Jackie Ashenden

Apr 2020 · Billion $ Bastards Book 2 · Sold by Harlequin

About this eBook

Commanding billionaire Everett Calhoun reveals his sexy dark side to his girl-next-door best friend in this smoking hot second installment of the Billion $ Bastards trilogy!

I was born bad. Maintaining tight control—in business and in the bedroom—is the only way to keep my darkness in check. So when my girl-next-door best friend, Freya, comes to me for a sexual favor, I don’t see the harm in giving her what she needs. After all, I’ve always kept her firmly in the friend zone.

But after showing her that there’s nothing wrong with her ability to orgasm, it’s all I can do to walk away. Unleashing my inner beast on the person who matters most to me is not an option. But she wants me… Is she prepared to follow my every command? To submit to my will and let me take her to the ultimate heights of pleasure?

Getting Freya on her knees should make me feel like the monster I am, but being with her leaves me more vulnerable, more human, than ever. I need to reclaim the friendship we had before I lose control completely, or will she have me on my knees…?

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Ratings and reviews

3.75 stars--SEXY BEAST is the second instalment in Jackie Ashenden’s contemporary, adult Billions $ Bastards erotic, romance series focusing on three friends and business partners Everett Calhoun, Damian Blackwood and Ulysses White. This is billionaire Everett Calhoun, and auto mechanic Freya Johnson’s story line. SEXY BEAST can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalment is revealed where necessary. NOTE: There are some scenes of domination and spanking that may not be suitable for more sensitive readers. Told from dual first person perspectives (Everett and Freya) SEXY BEAST follows the friends to lovers relationships between thirty two year old billionaire Damian Blackwood, and thirty year old Freya Johnson. Freya has been in love with her best friend since she was sixteen years old but having lost her mother at an early age, raised by an aunt who destroyed our heroine’s self esteem, Freya battled between head and heart as it pertained to Damian Blackwood. An invitation to be Damian’s plus one at a charity auction in London, England found Freya stepping out of her comfort zone, asking Damian if he was willing to help her with achieving her first O. What ensues is the building sexual relationship between Freya and Damian, and the fall-out as Damian struggles with his own needs and demands, believing himself unworthy of Freya’s love. The relationship between Freya and Damian is a friends to lovers but Damian is a sexual Dominant and demands obedience in all things sexually related. Freya will soon discover that she is a willing and cooperative partner for the man that she loves but Damian struggles with what he needs from his best friend, a friend whose heart he is about to destroy. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense with Domination and spanking. SEXY BEAST is a quick read; a story of friendship, power, control and acceptance. The premise is fast paced and entertaining; the romance is steamy and hot; the characters are strong, energetic, broken and hurt

About the author

Jackie writes dark, emotional stories with alpha heroes who've just got the world to their liking only to have it blown wide apart by their kick-ass heroines.She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband the inimitable Dr Jax and two kids. When she's not torturing alpha males, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, wasting time on social media, or forced to mountain biking with her husband.