Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire
Kate felt even more like a piece of meat than usual, yet she clamped down on her churlish thoughts and pasted on her best professional smile as the bidding continued. The smack of the gavel beside her made her flinch minutely. The fact that the gavel was being wielded by a well-known A-list Hollywood actor was not making the experience any easier. Despite her years of experience as a top model, she was still acutely uncomfortable under scrutiny, but she had learnt to disguise it well.
'Twenty-five thousand. Twenty-five thousand dollars to the gentleman here in the front. Am I bid any higher?'
Kate held her breath. The man under the spotlight with the unctuous grin was a well-known Greek shipping magnate. He was old, short, fat and bald, and his beady obsidian eyes were devouring Kate as he practically licked his lips. For a second she felt intensely vulnerable and alone, standing here under the lights. A shudder went through her. If someone else didn't—
'Ah! We've a bidder in the back—thirty thousand dollars from the new arrival.'
A rush of relief flooded Kate and she tried to strain to see past the glaring spotlights to identify who the ne ... read full excerpt from: Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire ebook
