Her Wedding Escort: A BWWM Alpha Male Romance Read Online Free PDF Page A

second that she can get me hooked up with Ronald, she’s going to do it. She already knows that things have been hard for us, so she’s not going to be on your side, and you’re white, so that’s not going to help our case at all, but we’ve got to show her and Ronald that we are solidly together and there is absolutely no possibility that either one of them could come between us. We have to show them that no one has ever loved each other as much as we love each other, or they’re going to try to make me go to the dark side and marry Ronald.”
    She shuddered at the thought and he laughed at her.
    “So... that means we’re going to be affectionate with each other all weekend?” he asked with a little trepidation.
    She realized then what he was saying. “Oh...” she bit her lower lip and it made him smile. “Uh... yes. I guess I didn’t think about that.”
    He laughed. “Yeah, it wasn’t in the job description that I’d be holding your hand, or hugging you, or kissing you in front of your whole family.”
    Her eyes got big and she drew in her breath as she realized that he was right. They would have to do all of those things for anyone to believe it. “I am so sorry,” she said with a grimace.
    He chuckled at her. “I’m not. You’re a beautiful woman and a good lady. I think I can suffer through some romantic acting with you. I just hope it’s all right with you.”
    She nodded her head. “It’s going to have to be. We’ve got to make everyone believe it!”
    Derek looked at her with a cocked eyebrow and asked her a question that had been burning the edge of his mind ever since she had brought it up. “So you haven’t ever actually really dated a white man before, have you?”
    Julia looked around at him slowly and shook her head almost imperceptibly. “No, I haven’t. This is a first for me.”
    He smiled a little. “Well, it’s a first for me, too. I think we can make it work, though.”
    She tilted her head and gave him a grin. “Do you think so? Do you think you can fool my family into believing that we’ve been deeply in love for two years?”
    Derek grinned. “I’m going to give it my best shot.”
    They drove on over hills and down them, around sharp corners and through small seaside towns, and made their way down the beautiful California coastline, talking and getting to know one another as they went. The further they went, the more they both felt like old friends who hadn’t seen each other in a long while, and the more comfortable it made them.
    Derek’s easy going manner and attitude made the partnership more comfortable for Julia, and the prospect of selling him to her family and Ronald as her long term boyfriend much easier.
    “So,” she said, looking over at him for a moment, “do you have a girlfriend or do you just date the women who pay you and call that good for a romantic life?”
    His smile slipped away a little bit and she knew then that she had touched a sore spot in his heart.
    “Well, the truth is that the paid dating is actually a pretty lonely thing. I don’t have a girlfriend. I do just date the women who pay me, but it’s lonely because they want me with them on their arm as someone to adore them, or keep them company, or for show. They aren’t with me because they are interested in me as a person, and at first I was okay with that, but then it really begins to feel like a job because none of them are with me for myself. I’m being paid, they are putting me on display, and it’s all very... cold and calculating. Some of them want more than just the public show and I don’t ever do that. I’m not a prostitute. I’m just escorting to pay the bills. It’s not a career for me, but it takes up a lot of my nights so I don’t really have time to date, and I wind up feeling alone a lot of the time because of it. It’s a weird situation.” He sighed and shrugged his shoulders.
    Then he looked at her and realized that she felt badly for him. “Oh! I’ve