Taking What He Wants (Celine and Rhyland series) Read Online Free PDF

he just couldn’t deal with that at that moment. Instead he got up and began to put on his clothes.
    ‘Get dressed beautiful and I’ll take you home. I’ll wire the money as soon as I’m dressed.’ He buttoned up his shirt.
    Reluctantly she shifted off the bed and headed for the bathroom to get dressed. She gazed into the mirror and just watched herself.
    ‘What the hell are you doing Celine ?’ she asked herself. ‘What are you doing?’
    Her heart had begun to hurt. In the beginning she thought it would be no harm but now that her heart had began to betray her, she was finding it a lot more difficult.
    ‘Is everything alright in there?’ he shouted.
    ‘Everything’s fine, I’ll be out in a minute.’ She got dressed.
    He was on his phone when she came out.
    ‘I’ve just sent five thousand to your account.’ He smiled.
    ‘You didn’t have to, three would’ve been sufficient.’
    ‘Hey, I’m a man of my word.’
    She tried to smile but it was hard. How long could she keep this up?
    ‘You ready?’
    She nodded.
    ‘Okay then lets go.’
    Chapter Three
    ‘Hey what’s the matter with you?’ Ava asked at breakfast.
    ‘Why do you think anything’s the matter?’
    ‘For one you’ve hardly touched your cereal and two you look super pissed off.’
    ‘You can tell that how?’
    ‘The Celine I know is always cheerful but I don’t know who you are right now.’
    Celine gazed at her friend and rolled her eyes.
    ‘Tell me what’s going on…no don’t tell me… it’s that man isn’t it. What’s his name again?’
    ‘Rhyland.’
    ‘Yes Rhyland…that’s the one, what’s he done to make you so blue?’
    ‘Nothing.’
    ‘Wrong answer. Spill.’
    ‘It’s nothing.’
    Ava studied her friend.
    ‘Ah you like him don’t you?’
    ‘No I don’t!’
    ‘Then why so defensive?’
    ‘I am not!’
    ‘There it is again.’
    ‘I can’t like a murderer!’
    ‘What did you say?’
    ‘I mean I can’t like someone I hardly know.’
    ‘What made you say he’s a murderer?’
    ‘I don’t know it just came out.’
    ‘No it didn’t, tell me what happened?’
    ‘It’s a mess? You’re right I’m falling for the guy but he’s my client and I’m his whore.’
    ‘That was the deal.’
    ‘A little sympathy? ’
    ‘Honey this is the way it works, he pays, he fucks you and that’s the end of it.’
    Tears prickled behind her eyes, hearing it like that really brought it home.
    ‘I’m sorry for being so mean about it, I just wanted you to face the reality of the situation.’
    She nodded upset.
    ‘But you said he was a murderer why would you say something like that? Did he say that he killed someone?’
    ‘Not in so many words.’
    ‘Tell me, what did he say?’
    Celine hadn’t managed to let this go. She’d held onto it the moment he’d dropped her off. She was upset that he hadn’t kissed her goodnight but then again she was just a paid whore. It made her angrier and more irrational. She began to tell Ava the story he’d told her about his love for Christmas.
    ‘He dresses me in Christmas outfits every time we meet.’
    ‘But he didn’t say he killed his father did he and if he had, he’d be in jail.’
    ‘He said I took care of it. Took care of it.’
    ‘What about jail, he wouldn’t get away with it.’
    ‘I don’t know, the man pays for sex, he could’ve paid for the case to disappear.’
    ‘But if he was that young then where would he have got all the money?’
    ‘I don’t know all I know is that he said he took care of it.’
    ‘I think you’re over reacting and I think you’re upset because he’s paying you for sex when you’ve developed feelings for him.’
    ‘Talking to you is pointless.’ She stood up.
    ‘My god Ce , face reality.’
    ‘What reality, your reality that you didn’t get him and I did?’
    ‘This isn’t about me!’
    ‘Shut up, just shut up!’ She stormed off leaving Ava to herself.
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    They didn’t speak for a week after that. Harvey