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At The Ruthless Billionaire’s Command ( book ) … Carole Mortimer

At The Ruthless Billionaire's Command ( book ) ... Carole Mortimer

Neither Billionaire Gregorio De La Cruz nor the woman he’s enthralled with; a defiant beauty named Lia; are particularly likeable. He’s too pushy. He pursues her like a stalker even as his advances are angrily rejected. She’s too gullible. She eventually gives in and blames him for her caving to her own lustful temptations.

It’s up to the plot of the novel, Presented by Harlequin via Carole Mortimer, to keep the pages turning. That it does, if barely so, from the prologue, which takes place at Lia’s father’s burial; crime and corruption are underlining themes in this story; to the fairy tale epilogue, the latter bit of which is too mawkish for my tastes.

my rating : 3 of 5

2017

a dream I had about a video girl who seemed to have a crush on me

I grinned uncontrollably as a family member told me what she’d apparently told her mother about me. “That boy is banging,” I think it was, “That is my baby”, but with big happy exclamation points. It was in reference not necessarily to my looks or personality, though it seemed to be underlined with romantic, even sexual, allure, but the video I’d made of us.

I say “us” but I was talkng from behind the camera, heard but not seen, at least for the most part. She was the star of the show. I can’t remember what she was doing, though the second video seems to have something to do with eyeglasses, and I think what she told her mom happened weeks or months between the two videos, but I was glad to hear it.

“Really,” I asked, still grinning, “She said that?” “Yep,” he confirmed as he impersonated her excitement. I was hoping I hadn’t let her down with the second video, though they were both captivating to me. They were probably around five minutes each and shot/edited in the style of a reality show about her. It was an ego boost for her, I figured, but she deserved it.

I don’t know how we met or what kind of relation we may have had to one another. She seemed to be a distant cousin I’d recently got to know thru other family members, but the romantic chemistry that seemed to go on between us suggested we weren’t actually related. If she really felt about me the way I felt about her, we seemed on the brink of becoming a couple.

A couple of what is the question. I considered her attractive enough; her looks and personality reminded me of a cross between Monica, the singer, and my real-life video star Evette, who also sings; but I’m not a “boyfriend” kind of guy. My attraction to her was mostly sexual, though I was enticed by what seemed to be her mostly romantic attraction to me.

Perhaps that’s just ego on my part. I assumed a lot about her feelings toward me based on what I was told she said to her mom while I imagined sitting at a kitchen or dining room table. She was very friendly in person and seemed to like me a lot, but, for all I know, she could’ve thought of me as nothing more than a guy who puts her in “banging” videos.

2019 November 15