“Name your price.” My pulse is too big for my body, my breath too shallow. “I’ll do what it takes to get him out of that contract.”

Leo scoffs. “You’ll do what it takes? I don’t think you can, sweetheart. I stand to make a fortune off your father and humiliate the entire Constantine line. That’s a win-win situation for me.” He tosses the pen down, bored. “And I can have any woman. You’re not the worst I’ve come across, but special? No.” His eyes follow the neckline of the dress. “You’ve got decent tits. A nice size. Big enough to tit fuck, but I’ve seen better. You have pretty thighs, at least from what I can see in that dress, but nothing to write home about.”

I want to burst into a cloud of ash and disappear into the fire. “I’ll do anything.”

He narrows his eyes and points at his cell phone, perched there on the desk. “There are a hundred women who’d get on their knees and suck my cock if I called them right now. I’m Leo fucking Morelli. Who are you?”

Compared to him? Nothing. I don’t have anything to give him except myself. But if I let myself shrink, if I let myself cower, then I lose. I lift my chin. “Is that what you want? For me to suck your cock? For me to get on my knees?”

Forget college. Forget exams. This is the real test, and I’m going to pass it by surviving this moment, this awful, tense moment. Leo Morelli could demand that I get down on my knees on his plush carpet and let him fuck my mouth. He could, and I would do it, and the possibility is worse than the demanding.

Waiting is a knife to soft skin, and he knows it.

That’s why he lets that smile slip slowly over his face so I can see his perfect teeth. Leo Morelli knows that he is devastating to look at, so beautiful it hurts, and he also knows that I can’t stop looking at him or he will have won everything.

“No, darling. For what you’re asking, it’s going to cost a lot more than a blowjob. You, in my bed. For a month. That’s the deal.”

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