Paris(It Happened #2)

Prologue

PROLOGUE

“You’re beautiful, Viv. Adrien’s a fool. If I had a woman like you, I would—” He stopped short.

“You’d what? Marry me? Whisk me away to your castle?” I teased the suave billionaire who had been a good listener and easy to talk with. He proved exactly who I needed as I left Adrien behind at the club. Besides, I didn’t see Adrien following us. No texts or calls either. I broke up with him and it was as if I suddenly ceased to exist to him.

Well, screw that bastard.

“Yes. All of it. We’d have the best of everything. I’d ensure you led a charmed life. You’d have whatever you wanted. If you were mine.” Richard’s words were unbelievable, that a man like him would offer me, well, basically the world. This was crazy, like living a dream tonight walking through Paris with him. “Only the best for you, Viv. I promise.”

As he finished, the lights of the tower lit up above us, and we laughed at the magical moment, as if the tower knew, right then, to bless us.

He picked me up and swung me around, and when my feet hit the ground, it was more like I landed in the clouds as his lips found mine. Soft, brushing, testing at first, then ending in a tangle of tongues and passion. Richard knew how to take a woman’s breath away…