“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

At five-fifty on the dot, I was downstairs and waiting.


Hendrix was nowhere to be found, and for a minute I wondered if he’d left without me. Disappeared once more.


Walking over to the floor-to-ceiling windows, I looked out toward the water. Since my lunch with Zoe and Bethany, I’d been thinking about their advice. How to handle him and protect myself, and so far, I had come up with nothing.


Lost in thought, I didn’t hear him come into the room. Wasn’t aware of his proximity until he snaked an arm around my waist. Caught me off guard, and I jumped. “Shit!” I yelped, losing my balance, and falling back against his chest.


“Careful, nymph.” His hold tightened, nose tracing the shell of my ear. “Don’t want you to get hurt, although, I will tan that ass red if you continue to be a bad little girl.”


“W-What?” At my stuttering, he nipped my neck and stepped back. Turned me around so he could appraise me from head to toe.


Chapter 33: Beau