The Game Changer (The Millionaire’s Assistant #4)(5)
Author: Helen Cooper

“I’m sorry,” Alice whispered.

He continued talking as if she hadn’t said anything. “And then she started to back away from him because she needed to look after me. But he wasn’t having any of it. She was beautiful you see and many married men owed him huge favors for sleeping with her. He made her drop me off at an orphanage.” His eyes glazed over. “He told her it was a new daycare and then he had her drugged and…” He choked back a sob and Alice watched as tears came out of his eyes. She leaned over and kissed each tear away softly and he just stared at her in awe.

“I’ve never told anyone this story before.” He reached over and held her hand and she didn’t resist. “I always thought my mother was going to come back and get me and she never did. I never understood why she stopped loving me. Why she left. I grew up a very bitter man, determined to make all women pay.”

“I’m sure it must have hurt a lot.”

“And then I made it big. I hired a private detective to find out what had happened. I wanted to track her down, see where she was living. I figured that maybe she had another family somewhere, that she had given me up because it had been too hard as a single mom. And then I found out the truth. I found out what John Gold had done to her and I knew that I had to get my revenge.”

“But why didn’t you just confront him?”

“He’s one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, Alice. I needed a way to have something over him. It was only by chance that I met Maribel, through my PR person and I noticed how she talked about him and followed him with her eyes. I had my detective track them and I had a feeling they were up to no good.”

“I see.”

“Alice,” his voice choked out the words. “I was blinded by my need for revenge. I wanted to take him down so badly. And I was scared. I met you and I knew you could be the bait. The one to snare John, the one who could help me approach him for funding.”

“You knew you wanted to use me? “Alice’s voice was pained.

“Yes.” He looked ashamed. “When you agreed to the rules, I created a plan; a way to bring John Gold down. I told you we needed his funding to make the movie because I knew it was the only way I could get you to do my bidding and be nice to him.”

“I didn’t do it for the movie, Oliver.” Alice’s voice was soft as she spoke. “I did it for you.”

He looked at her in pain. “I know. I think deep down I always knew. You scared me, Alice. You made me feel things I didn’t want to. You made me say things I’d never said. And I hated it. I wanted you out of my life. I wanted to hate you. I wanted to use you so you would hate me.”

Alice stared at the man she loved as he told her his darkest secrets. She felt such pain that this man could want to hurt her so badly.

“I just wanted to get the two of you on camera. I just wanted to hear him say her name. I knew that would be all I needed. And I thought that it wouldn’t matter. I wouldn’t care if I saw you two being intimate together but it killed me, Alice. I wanted to kill him. I wanted to kill myself. I ran into that room, Alice, I ran into that room to stop it with shards of glass sticking into my heart.”

“You let me sleep with a man I thought was you, Oliver.” Alice’s voice was filled with pain so deep that Oliver thought his heart would break in two.

“Alice, you will never know how much I regret that night. If I could take it all back I could. I love you, Alice. I love you more than I can even imagine. I’ll give it all up for you. I’ll do whatever you want me to. I just want to make it right. I just want to make you love me one day.”

Alice gazed into his eyes and her heart was filled with joy. “Oliver, I love you. I don’t know that I can ever forget what has happened but I will try to forgive. I will try to be the woman you need. I will never leave you, Oliver but you have to promise to never push me away.”

“Oh Alice.” Oliver reached over and cupped her face in his hands. “I don’t know what I’ve done to be so lucky to get you.” And then he kissed her. She pushed her tongue into his mouth, wanting the taste of him to consume her. She grabbed his hair and he ran his hands under her shirt to rub her back. They sat up quickly and pulled off their tops and jeans until they were lying there in just their underwear.

“You are beautiful, Alice.” He bent down and kissed down the valley of her chest to her stomach. She closed her eyes and felt a warm feeling enter her body. She pushed his face down to her pu**y and looked down at him. “I need to feel you on me.”

He grinned up at her and quickly pulled her panties down. “I thought you’d never ask.” He burrowed his nose in her and savored her smell before he stuck his tongue onto her cl*t and sucked. She squirmed as he lapped up her pu**y and pushed his head into her harder. He got the hint and stuck his tongue into her; she trembled as she felt her cl**ax building. Just before she thought she was going to come, she pushed his head off her and pulled him up.

“I want to come with you in me,” she whispered and stared into his eyes. “I want you to make love to me, Oliver.”

He lowered himself onto his arms and adjusted his c**k so it was at the entrance to her pu**y. As he pushed into her he kissed her, all the while staring into her eyes. “I love you, Alice. I want to spend the rest of my life making things up to you.”

“As your assistant?” She smiled up at him and then they both screamed with pleasure as they cl**axed together. He collapsed on top of her and kissed her from her lips to her ears.

“No, Alice. I want to change the rules to this game. I want you to be more than my assistant. I want you to be my wife.”

As Alice and Oliver lay there, they knew that they didn’t have an easy road ahead of them but they both knew that everything was going to be okay because they had each other.