Free Billionaire BWWM Romance 1: The Billionaire's Arranged Marriage by Cj Howard

He’s atrocious and has absolutely no respect and no manners! I can’t!” Panic and anger flashed up inside Jillian and her heart leaped into her throat.
     
    Her mother looked at her calmly. “It has been decided. You will marry him. This is not an option for you; you have no choice in the matter.”
     
    Jillian felt like her whole world was turning inside out. She was going to be made to leave her home and her family and marry a man she never wanted to see again. It was the worst possible turn of events in her life. Her mind went to Wilson and her heart ached for the man she had wanted to marry, the man who had lied to her and told her he loved her, and then gone behind her back to marry someone else. Now she was being forced to marry a man who could not have less respect for her. Her life would be a never ending nightmare.
     
    “Mother, no! I can’t! Please don’t make me go through this, please reconsider and listen to me! I don’t want him!” she begged and pleaded.
     
    “Jillian, you will marry him if he asks you to,” Kimiko said sternly and resolutely.
     
    “But I don’t love him! How can you even think of making me marry a man I don’t love? Please, Mother!” Tears ran in rivulets from her eyes down her cheeks, but her mother looked at her with a stony expression and raised her voice.
     
    “The decision is made and the discussion is over! You may go!” Kimiko made it clear that she wanted her daughter to leave the room, and Jillian jumped up and ran first to her own room, but she paused at the door. She would find no solace in there and she knew it.
     
    She needed her daddy. She ran to his dojo, knowing he wasn’t there, but craving as much of his presence as she could find, and there was no place in their home where he was more present than in his dojo. She spent the day in there, weeping until she fell asleep and wrestled with nightmares.
     
     
    Reed woke up the next day and discovered he had passed out in the pool house beside the swimming pool at his home. He couldn’t remember getting there from the yacht. He looked over and saw that Daisy was curled up at his side, clinging to him. She must have driven him home. He peeled himself from her and covered her nude body with the sheet, then walked out of the sliding glass doors to the deck off the guest room in the pool house.
     
    It had already been two days. He would have to get in touch with Jillian; she was his only chance. She hated him, and she never wanted to see him again, but he wasn’t going to let the week run out without at least trying to change her mind.
     
    He called her cell phone number and it rang a few times and then she answered it. He was incredulous. He hadn’t expected her to do that. He thought perhaps she didn’t know who it was.
     
    “Hello,” she said quietly. She knew.
     
    “Hi, Jillian, this is Reed.”
     
    “Yes,” she replied.
     
    “I wanted to apologize for my behavior, I feel really bad about it. I had no business treating you that way, as you said, and I’m really sorry about it.” It wasn’t entirely a lie, he did regret it, but he wasn’t sorry at all that he had gotten to kiss her and hold her. He pushed the thoughts from his mind and focused on the phone call.
     
    “Okay,” she said in a monotone voice.
     
    “I was hoping I could talk with you today. Right away, actually. There’s uh… there’s something kind of imperative that I need to discuss with you. Ask you. Talk with you about…” he began to stammer. “Um, could you just please come over as soon as you are able to? I’m at my house.” He felt like he was begging, and he didn’t want to sound desperate, but he did want her to understand just how important this was to him.
     
    “Fine. I’ll be there when I can.” She hung up the phone and buried her head in her pillow.
     
    She knew that she was going to have to say yes to him if he asked her, and she knew there was no way out of it. She had cried so much in her