“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

For minutes I sat back with her daughter in my lap stewing in my anger. Her selfishness had repeatedly cost me important things.


I paid for my first car and its insurance because she couldn’t afford her rent. Mind you, my sister’s first vehicle came off a lot and was shiny red. Only the best for her.


My entire eighth-grade summer was spent babysitting three kids, so I could buy new clothes at the start of the school year because once again, she needed something. That time it was the latest model of laptop and phone with the promise of going to college.


And now, here we were, celebrating her daughter’s birthday while she was sneaking off here and there with Ivan.


Chapter 27: Beau