THREAT (The Billionaire's Rules, Book 5) (6 page)

“Who
are
you?” she said, and then laughed, putting a hand to her mouth in awe of what
she was seeing.

“I’m the guy making you breakfast.
 
Coffee’s up,” he said, nodding to the
coffee pot, which was full of dark coffee.
 

“I didn’t even know I had any good coffee
left.
 
Or eggs for that matter,” she
said, frowning slightly.

“I might have borrowed your keys and ran
to the corner store,” Cullen said.
 
He
moved the pan to a back burner, clapped his hands and turned to face her.
 
“You left them on the bowl by the
counter so I thought it was okay.”

She nodded, totally flabbergasted.
 
“I’m just—“

Cullen walked towards her, smiling.
 
“Don’t overthink it,” he said, and then
he took her around the waist with one hand, his other hand moving to cup her
face.
 
He leaned in and kissed her.

His mouth tasted like mint and coffee.

When he let her go, her knees were weak.

“I assumed you like the usual,” he
said.
 
“Eggs, scrambled.
 
Bacon, crispy.
 
Toast, buttered liberally.”

“Of course, I love all of it.
 
I’m just going to run to the bathroom
and then I’ll be right back,” she said, shaking her head as she turned and left
the kitchen.

“Don’t be gone too long.
 
The timing on this is essential,” Cullen
called after her.

She laughed, still in disbelief as she
went to the bathroom and peed and then washed her face quickly and brushed her
teeth.

How did things continuously turn so
quickly with him?

Was his change of heart real or was this
just another game he was playing to confuse her?

Whatever he was doing, it was working.

Ivy went back to her room and got on a
fresh pair of sweat pants and t-shirt.
 
She almost left the room but then remembered her phone.

As she bent to grab her cell from the
nightstand, she saw a text had come through and was sitting there on the screen.

The text was a photo someone had sent to
her.

Ivy picked up the phone and stared at the
image, her heartbeat accelerating.

The photo showed Cullen standing outside
her apartment at night.
 
The quality
was perfect, as if the photographer had been standing mere feet away.

Ivy swiped her screen and navigated to
her text messages.
 
There were two
more texts waiting, unread, from the same number.

They were both photos that had been
texted just minutes ago.

One picture was Ivy standing in her
bedroom.
 
You could only see her,
wearing her nightgown.
 
She was
somewhat blurry but you could definitely make out that it was
her
.

The final picture sent from the unknown
number was the worst.
 
It was
Cullen, standing there, clearly naked and visible from the same window.
 

Whoever had taken these pictures was a
professional.
 
The images were
amazingly clear, especially given the time of night they’d been taken.
 
Probably with a telephoto lens or
something.
 
Whoever had managed to
snap that photo knew everything.
 
They’d followed Cullen and now they had pictures of him in her
apartment—pictures that could clearly show the intimacies that had taken
place between them.

Was it the FBI?
 
Was it someone else?

She was frightened and humiliated all at
once.

“Ivy?” she heard Cullen call from the
kitchen.
 
“
Food’s getting
cold.”

“Be right there!” she called back, as
beads of sweat broke out on her forehead.
 
She felt sick and slightly faint.

The final text came through as she was still
staring at the phone.

Did
u like the pics? There are more where those came from. Keep
ur
mouth shut and your eyes open.
 
We
will get what we need from you…one way or another.

You
will give us Cullen Sharpe on a silver platter.

That was the last thing she saw before
she fainted.
 

As Ivy fell, she vaguely heard the sound
of her cell phone shattering to pieces as it dropped to the floor next to her, just
before everything went dark.

THE END OF THREAT (THE BILLIONAIRE’S
RULES, BOOK 5)

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