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  Table of Contents

  Auctioned to Him Book 1

  Prologue - Aiden

  Chapter 1 - Aiden

  Chapter 2 - Ellie

  Chapter 3 - Ellie

  Chapter 4 - Ellie

  Chapter 5 - Ellie

  Chapter 6 - Ellie

  Chapter 7 - Ellie

  Chapter 8 - Ellie

  Chapter 9 - Ellie

  Chapter 10 - Ellie

  Chapter 11 - Ellie

  Chapter 12 - Ellie

  Chapter 13 - Aiden

  Chapter 14 - Ellie

  Chapter 15 - Ellie

  Chapter 16 - Ellie

  Chapter 17 - Ellie

  BONUS: Auctioned To Him Book 1

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Auctioned to Him 5

  Charlotte Byrd

  Byrd Books

  Contents

  Copyright

  BONUS: Auctioned To Him

  Auctioned to Him Book 1

  Get the Auctioned to Him - Deleted Scene!

  About Auctioned to Him 2

  Auctioned to Him 2

  About Auctioned to Him 3: Back to the Yacht

  Auctioned to Him 3

  About Auctioned to Him 4

  Auctioned to Him 4

  About Auctioned to Him 5

  Prologue - Aiden

  Chapter 1 - Aiden

  Chapter 2 - Ellie

  Chapter 3 - Ellie

  Chapter 4 - Ellie

  Chapter 5 - Ellie

  Chapter 6 - Ellie

  Chapter 7 - Ellie

  Chapter 8 - Ellie

  Chapter 9 - Ellie

  Chapter 10 - Ellie

  Chapter 11 - Ellie

  Chapter 12 - Ellie

  Chapter 13 - Aiden

  Chapter 14 - Ellie

  Chapter 15 - Ellie

  Chapter 16 - Ellie

  Chapter 17 - Ellie

  BONUS: Auctioned To Him Book 1

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Get the Auctioned to Him - Deleted Scene!

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  About Charlotte Byrd

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2017 by Charlotte Byrd

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  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

  BONUS: Auctioned To Him

  It was just supposed to be a luxurious yacht party. Until Ellie discovered that all the female guests were going to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. If you don't want to play, you can’t stay. But if you stay, you're in for a night of whatever he wants and you get to keep all the money. Ellie’s friend thinks she’s crazy. But she owes $150,000 in school loans. Plus, the guys are hot and very rich. What can go wrong?

  Mr. Black wanted to own her from the minute he saw her. He paid good money and has the paper to prove it. The contract is unbreakable. She has to do everything he wants tonight. But he doesn’t want just sex. Oh no…he wants more.

  Tonight, there are no rules.

  WARNING: This is a HOT, modern day, dark erotic romance with an alpha billionaire for fans of EL James, Pepper Winters, and Alexa Riley. It contains light bondage, NO CHEATING, and a HEA.

  Auctioned to Him Book 1

  If you haven’t read Book 1, just skip to the end to read it. If you have read it, keep going to Book 2, 3, and 4!

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  About Auctioned to Him 2

  His for a Week

  Aiden

  I wanted to own her from the minute I saw her. That’s why I bought her for the night at my yacht party, but that one night wasn’t enough. I crave her. I have to have her. And for the first time, in a long time, I feel like I’m falling for someone. That can’t be right. I’m a confirmed bachelor. I love one-night stands and women who leave in the morning. But Ellie is different. She challenges me. She doesn’t listen. She frustrates me on every level and that makes me want her even more. It’s not just sex I want. Oh, no…I want more. This week, there are no rules.

  Ellie

  I’m a good girl who has never had a one-night stand, let alone let myself be auctioned off to the highest bidder. But that night with Mr. Black on his yacht was amazing and it gave me enough money to pay off all of my school loans. I doubted that I would ever see him again. He is a manwhore, after all. He may be beautiful and flawless on the outside, and damaged and tormented on the inside, but he’s still a manwhore.

  But then he called. Now I know that what I felt was real. It’s not just the dark pleasures that are pulling me back to him. It’s something more, but Aiden Black doesn’t just want to go on a date like a normal person. No, he wants me to be his for a week. On call. To do whatever he demands. Do I dare comply?

  WARNING: This is a HOT modern day dark erotic romance with an alpha billionaire for fans of EL James, Kira Blakely, and Madison Faye. It contains light bondage, NO CHEATING, No Cliffhanger, and a Happily Ever After for now.

  Auctioned to Him 2

  If you haven’t read Auctioned to Him 2: His for a Week, you can get it for FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Here are the links:

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  About Auctioned to Him 3: Back to the Yacht

  The hotly anticipated third book of the Auctioned to Him series continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.

  Mr. Black is Aiden and Aiden is Mr. Black. They are the same person except that they’re not. Aiden is kind and sweet and Mr. Black is demanding and rule-oriented. One thing is for sure, Aiden Black is as beautiful and flawless on the outside as he is tormented and damaged on the inside.

  I’m a good girl who had never even had a one-night stand before I went to his yacht party. And there, I let myself be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Ever since that night, Mr. Black’s scorching flames have singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I crave him and I couldn’t stay away from him even if I wanted to. He is my addiction. He is my every desire.

  So, when he invites me to another one of his yacht parties…I can’t say no.

  WARNING: This is a HOT modern-day, dark, erotic, romance with a bad boy alpha billionaire for fans of EL James, Kira Blakely, and Madison Faye. It contains light bondage, NO CHEATING, No Cliffhanger and a Happily Ever After for now.

  Auctioned to Him 3

  If you haven’t read Auctioned to Him 3: Back
to the Yacht, you can get it for FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Here are the links:

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  About Auctioned to Him 4

  The hotly anticipated fourth book of the Auctioned to Him series continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.

  Aiden Black is beautiful and flawless and tormented and damaged. I’m a good girl who never thought that she would fall for a man who would buy her at an auction. But what started out as a relationship of pure lust has evolved into something more…love. The more I fall in love with him, the more I crave him. I can’t stay away.

  And now that his business is falling apart, he needs me more than ever. When I see the opportunity to help him, I have to take it…

  WARNING: This is a HOT, modern-day, dark erotic romance with a bad boy alpha billionaire for fans of EL James, Kira Blakely, and Pepper Winters. It contains light bondage, NO CHEATING, No Cliffhanger and a Happily Ever After, for now.

  Auctioned to Him 4

  If you haven’t read Auctioned to Him 4: His Addiction, you can get it for FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Here are the links:

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  About Auctioned to Him 5

  Book 5 in the Bestselling series - includes Book 1 as a BONUS! The hotly anticipated 5th book continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden.

  I never expected to participate in an auction, let alone fall in love with a man who would buy me. But here we are. Aiden Black is beautiful and damaged. Our love started out as pure lust and now it’s so much more. His business is going up in flames and he needs me as much as I need him.

  But when we attend a lavish party in Maine, everything that was going so right, suddenly starts to go wrong. Suddenly, there’s no way out. Or is there? Can our love survive this?

  WARNING: This is a HOT, modern-day, dark erotic romance with a bad boy alpha billionaire for fans of EL James, Kira Blakely, and Pepper Winters. It contains light bondage, NO CHEATING, No Cliffhanger and a Happily Ever After, for now.

  Prologue - Aiden

  When I can’t stop thinking about her… When I can’t stop thinking about her…

  Ellie has my heart and there’s nothing I can do about it. And the worst part? Or maybe the best part? I don't even care. I’ve never felt this way about anyone before. I was in love before, at least I think I was. But now, looking back, it all feels a little bit like infatuation instead of real love. I think about Ellie all the time. I crave her. I want to be with her all the time. When she’s not around, I want to call her or text her. Honestly, I feel like a child. Whenever we are apart, even for a few hours, my mind goes back to her. I think about the way she smells, the way she feels, the way she laughs. Ellie has an intoxicating aroma of home - lavender and sunshine mixed with love. She feels like a long lost friend who has always been there for me. And her laughter - it’s the best sound in the world.

  When I first met her, it was lust at first sight. I have been with a lot of women, but I’ve never felt that way about them. Sure, I found many of them sexy and alluring, but something about Ellie made me stop and drop everything and pay attention to just her. It’s like no one else in the world mattered anymore. No one else existed, except for her. And no one else would ever exist again. But as we started to spend more time together, I found myself falling for her. I’m not just falling for her, no. I’m falling in love with her.

  I am in love with her.

  In November, it’s already winter in Maine. The cold is nipping at my nose and my fingertips as I walk back from Mr. and Mrs. Warrenhouse’s mansion on the water, back to our cottage. There are lights all around, illuminating my path, and all of a sudden, it looks like the most beautiful place in the world. The cloud cover above has splintered and the bright full moon is illuminating the dew on the trees. It smells like it’s about to snow. I know, deep inside of my heart, that there’s no one else I would rather be here with than Ellie. Without her, I would probably not see any of this beauty around me at all.

  I open my mouth and taste the salty air all around me. I can’t remember the last time I ever savored a moment like this. When was the last time that I stopped to smell the flowers, as the saying goes? I’ve never considered myself to be a particularly sentimental person and paying attention to all this beauty never really occurred to me before. It’s almost as if it only existed in carefully planned shots in movies and photos, but not in real life. And now, walking all alone, toward my beloved, all I see around me is the beauty that life has to offer.

  What was I doing before? How could I have been so blind to all of this around me? I wonder. Oh, yes, of course. Work. I’m a workaholic, I know that. Work has always been an escape for me. Whenever things got tough at home and my parents were fighting, or we were about to get evicted, I just retreated into another world - a world where feelings and beauty were stashed in another place altogether. In this world, computers, numbers, and math dominated the space. Everything here made sense. Everything was rational and orderly. This tendency has made me a success and made me a lot of money. But it also took a lot away from me. It prevented me from seeing beauty and love, which is all around. It sucked up my days with meetings and algorithms, instead of life.

  Looking back, I can’t help but feel conflicted about it. Work has always been an escape and one that I relish. I need to work because without it I feel lost. It’s almost like I don’t know who I am. And yet, it also feels incredibly good to just put it aside and live in the moment for once. It’s incredibly freeing to live in the moment and to enjoy all the little pleasures that life has to offer. And this sudden awareness on my part - of this whole other way of existing - it’s all thanks to Ellie. Without her, my eyes would still be closed. I would spend all of my days in front of the computer and in meetings with colleagues and shareholders. All I would ever worry about is my stock price and the next project that Owl would be putting out.

  Chapter 1 - Aiden

  What happened with Robert Warrenhouse

  The irony about this whole thing is that it is also thanks to Ellie that things are looking up with Owl. If she hadn’t invited me to Maine with her and insisted on me coming, I would never have met Robert Warrenhouse. I’ve heard of him, of course. Who hasn’t? He and his family are some of the biggest investors in New England, which pretty much means that he’s one of the biggest investors in the world. He and his organization have invested in a variety of companies with a number of different interests, including lumber, sugar, solar, wind, and real estate.

  When he first took me to his library for a little chat, I couldn’t help but feel a bit intimidated. I wasn’t ready to pitch Owl to him, especially at a difficult time like this. Blake was one of my friends and my earliest investors. I will never forget how much he had done for the company in the beginning. But at the same time, I will never forget what he has done to Ellie and how spiteful and small-minded he was after I walked in on them on my yacht. He was embarrassed and ashamed, and instead of apologizing and admitting his mistakes, trying to make some sort of amends, he got angry and spiteful. He pretended that he’d done nothing wrong. And for that I can never forgive him.

  Well, I’ve always known that Blake was prideful, and I always knew that it would be this silly pride of his that would lead to his downfall. But I didn’t think he would be so petty as to take down Owl with him. It is one of my greatest mistakes, and regrets, that I allowed him to deal with the majority of the investors in Owl instead of taking on the responsibility myself. If I hadn’t done that, then he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to take them all away from me now.

  So, as you can imagine, the conversation I had with Mr. Warrenhouse, or rather Robert as he prefers t
o be called, was rather tense. I had a lot to explain because Robert follows financial news closely and has a lot of close advisors. He was well aware of most of what has been going on with Owl; a lot more than even the financial reporters out there, but of course he didn’t know that it all stemmed from what happened between Ellie and Blake back on my yacht. That part, I kept to myself because that’s what Ellie wants. Still, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to explain why and how you’re bleeding hundreds of thousands of dollars each day and why you lost a billion dollars in valuation within a few weeks.

  Looking back on our meeting, I think what made me stand out in Robert’s eyes is that I didn’t try to sell him a load of shit. I was completely honest about my falling out with Blake and even mentioned that it was over my current girlfriend, Ellie, whom he met at the party. I told him exactly what Blake was doing and the mistake I made in putting him in charge of all investor relations with Owl. I also told him about my plans for Owl and our plans to monetize the company by going into advertising. I pointed out the similarities that our proposed advertising approach has to the way that all the big companies out there do advertising, including Facebook, Google, and Amazon. But I also made sure to point out the differences and what makes our approach unique and even better.