From "can I borrow a kiss for bet" to "It was nice sleeping with you" Ethan and Esmeralda entered the most inconvenient marriage of the century. _______ A commitment-phobic and emotionally unavailable Billionaire. That is the reputation that precedes Ethan Westbury. The words cold and distant don't even begin to describe him. An unwarned kiss made him cross his path with Esmeralda Fox, the eccentric actress. She is sure that the billionaire who has more money than emotions is the devil in disguise. Now, the story gets spicy here. Ethan's grandfather's will inheritance clause had posed a great threat to everything he had achieved so far in his life. Get married before his thirty-fourth birthday or lose everything to his Asshole cousin who would stop at nothing to defeat him. Marrying the emerald-eyed curvy beauty is the only option he had. The problem? He is unable to keep up his distant and cold appeal before the devilish beauty. She is everything he hadn't expected. She is like a typhoon, breaking all of his fences and walls and creeping into his heart like a clawing vine. Suddenly, it's impossible for him to keep up with this marriage of convenience when his contractual wife is nothing but an inconvenience with a capital I.
The last thing Ethan Westbury wished was to find himself waking up to an unknown woman clinging to him like a koala bear. He didn't know how and why this happened but he knew for sure what had happened. He wasn't an inexperienced man, he had his fair share of pleasure and well… woman.
He hadn't planned on marrying anyone. He surely had not planned on sleeping with a random woman he had found in a bar where he had gone to drown his misery in a bottle of whiskey.
It was Liam's idea and he should have known better than acting on it.
Waking up with a woman at God knows where was the last thing on his mind.
He tried to wriggle out of her hold as she lightly slapped his chest and murmured, "Baby Ker, don't move or go back to your room. I won't let you sneak into my bed every day just because it is softer. Also, I'm better than you. At least my boobs feel softer."
Ethan closed his eyes and inwardly groaned in order to stop staring at her soft and more than handful boobs. He was not going to talk about how his ego was bruised by hearing her call him another man.
Come on, he was a man after all.
After having…never mind.
Esmeralda opened her eyes when she felt something poking her stomach and she stopped breathing as a set of steel-blue eyes penetrating hers. She found herself wearing a flimsy tank top and lying on a man's chest.
Oh my god!
What had she done?
What should she say now?
Should she thank him for last night that she didn't remember because of her stupid drinks or run without saying anything and never return?
Wait a minute….
Why should she run from her own house?
As for what happened between them, they were adults and….these adults things needed not to be talked about, right?
"You know what?" Esmeralda whispered, staring at him, "I need to use the washroom fast."
She ran from the bed and disappeared inside the washroom. Ugh, she forgot what she was supposed to say when she met his penetrating gaze.
[Lord, I'm screwed. The next headline will be Esmeralda Fox screwed a random man. At least, the random man is handsome like sin and his eyes were enough to be attached to him in the news. But…this wasn't the concern now.]
Ethan sat on the bed, his eyes twinkling with amusement as the tiny thing ran to the washroom. She was small but fire, he could tell at this moment.
"We had sex, "The woman with the wildest green eyes he had ever seen shouted at the top of her lungs from the washroom. "You better pay me for biting my insuranced boobs."
Ethan scratched his head, hues of red painting his ear and neck. He had never met such a crude woman before.
"You bit my fucking nipples, "The woman cried as she saw the teeth marks all over her breast, collarbones and stomach.
"I didn't physically maul you, I can assure you that, "Ethan sighed. Never in his wildest or darkest dreams would he ever try to force himself on a woman. Even if he didn't remember a thing that happened between them last night, he could tell that it was consensual.
"Of course, I know that, "Esmeralda scoffed. "Do you think the walnut opener in my handbag is for the show? I would have crushed your nuts with my favourite tool if you had tried to force yourself on me."
Ethan shuddered at her threat. Remind him never to meet her again.
After a few minutes, she appeared out of the washroom in a bathrobe and took a seat next to him. She was looking everywhere but at him. The brave and crude woman of earlier was nowhere in sight as she raised her watery green eyes to glance at him and said in the softest voice she could muster up, "Can you keep what happened between us a secret? I can't afford a scandal at this time. Please?"
Ethan was taken aback. He didn't know she would be the first person to ask him to keep their little episode a secret. By the way, what kind of scandal was she talking about? Who was she? And she wasn't going to demand money to keep her mouth closed, was she?
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A/N: Never pick women from a bar for one-night stands, you could get one like her! It's dangerous!