“I bought you to be my whore.”

Hendrix Parker lost it all four years ago. Angry at the world, he's become an asshole—a bitter shell of the man his family once loved. A recluse, he’s now forced to leave his sanctuary in the Florida Keys and become an active member of the real estate development community he now dominates.

Problem is he's all alone and needs a buffer. Someone to draw attention away from him...

Beau Carter is young, beautiful, and with a bright future ahead of her. Her dreams of becoming the first woman in her family to graduate from college are just within grasp, when the financial aid runs out. Up to her eyeballs in debt, she works night and day to make ends meet, but even that can only last for so long.

A contract. Six Months. The catch?
I'll become the sugar baby to a very rich man. Someone I find myself wanting to punch in the face and throw myself at, on the same breath.

Craving Sugar written by Elena M. Reyes

Craving Sugar

“Thank you, GOD! Clock in, woman, my feet hurt,” Ruby yelled from across the bar the moment I walked in for my shift at Carmencita’s. Most patrons here were regulars and laughed at her antics, while a few others looked toward me with mild annoyance.


I’d forgotten she’d be on tonight, and we hadn’t talked since Friday’s meet my boyfriend disaster. Same night I let Hendrix take me home with him.


Forgotten anything around me existed for the last three days while I tried to come up with a viable story to sell to my loved ones.


Not even Zoe, who’d been a godsend through all of this, had received more than a text from me. But then again, she understood. Gave me the space I needed to get it together.


For the time being, I had tunnel vision. Could only focus on one thing:


By Saturday night I would be living with Hendrix Parker, a man I didn’t know, as he had requested - demanded, through trickery and manipulation.


Chapter 24: Beau