Escort for a Week

By Celia Jade

Macy Piers is in debt again. Getting a second job isn’t going to cut it this time. Determined to pay off her credit card bills in one shot, she heads over to Velvet Nights, a nightclub that caters to Tieg clientele and holds date auctions. She signs herself up for auction, hoping that the cut she’d receive from the final bid would be enough to eliminate her debt. Being someone’s escort for a week would hurt her pride, but it would also serve as a lesson. While being prepped for the auction by the club’s owner, a big, rugged man walks into the room and the whole world stops. His hard-edged looks and the dark intensity of his eyes trap her while making her pulse race. Is he one of the bidders? Unsettled by her intense reaction to this stranger, Macy is relieved when she’s taken to the auction lounge, yet he’s already made an imprint in her mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Feb 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781554879434

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Macy Piers is in debt again. Getting a second job isn’t going to cut it this time. Determined to pay off her credit card bills in one shot, she heads over to Velvet Nights, a nightclub that caters to Tieg clientele and holds date auctions. She signs herself up for auction, hoping that the cut she’d receive from the final bid would be enough to eliminate her debt. Being someone’s escort for a week would hurt her pride, but it would also serve as a lesson. While being prepped for the auction by the club’s owner, a big, rugged man walks into the room and the whole world stops. His hard-edged looks and the dark intensity of his eyes trap her while making her pulse race. Is he one of the bidders? Unsettled by her intense reaction to this stranger, Macy is relieved when she’s taken to the auction lounge, yet he’s already made an imprint in her mind.

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Escort for a Week

Copyright © 2011 Celia Jade

ISBN: 978-1-55487-ARC

Cover art by Martine Jardin

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Escort for a Week

By

Celia Jade

Chapter One

Macy Piers groaned as she stared at the balance of her checking and savings accounts on the screen of her laptop. She chewed her lip and shook her head. Once she’d paid her rent and the rest of her usual expenses, there would barely be enough money to pay for her whopping credit card bills. She couldn’t believe she’d done it again. It had taken almost a year to pay off her last debt. Too proud to borrow money from anyone—including her family—she’d worked as a waitress on weekends on top of her regular job in order to pay the debt off. She’d been young, almost fresh out of college at the time, and hadn’t placed much importance on saving money. Now at twenty-eight, her situation was inexcusable.

With a great deal of reluctance she slid one of the bills toward her. Each purchase had been a comfort fix, like hot chicken soup to soothe the aches of a bad cold—only five times better.

Neiman Marcus. The sequined Aidan Mattox cocktail dress was a steal at twenty percent discount.

Saks Fifth Avenue. Her very first pair of Louboutin pumps. A gift to herself after winning the Docks & Hammer bid.

Saks Fifth Avenue. Her second pair of Louboutins…flats. Her nose crinkled as she realized she’d bought a similar pair a couple of weeks ago. Right. Well, she’d just return them.

She skimmed the rest of the document quickly, cringing because these items were non-refundable.

An order for a dining room set and bedroom curtains, delivered last week, a bunch of outings to restaurants and fine arts events, a pastry cooking class, and a weekend spa package in Itasca.

Macy blew out a heavy sigh, having forgotten about the girls’ getaway she’d enjoyed last month. She’d return what she could, but some items on the bills had final sale policies. And there was the donation she’d made to MADD. No way was she making a stop payment on that. In any case, this was a lesson to her. Hopefully the last one she’d need to get her finances in order. Her best friend, Jenn, and Mom—self-appointed psychologists—insisted that she suffered from shopping process addiction. Both had been urging her to get therapy for a long time, but they were barking up the wrong tree. Her problem was her inability to manage her money from time to time. She needed a financial planner, not a therapist.

She admitted that her shopping sprees had increased since Kate’s death six years ago. She was her sister for heaven’s sake. The shopping helped get her