Highest Bidder

By Cordova Skye

By the middle of the 21st century, fertility is yet another commodity controlled by the wealthy few. Riella's family has the wealth, political power, and genetics to easily secure a reproductive license for her, but there's a condition: that she marry the son of her father's business partner. In defiance, she runs away...and straight to the Auction House.

Unprepared for how her fertile young body is probed, prodded, and put on display, she remains determined to thwart her father's plans for her, even if it means selling herself into the hands of a stranger.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Burning Lotus Press
• Release date: Apr 13, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463567319

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Highest Bidder

Highest Bidder

Nine Month Auction - 2

Cordova Skye

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Highest Bidder

He can't do this to me! I fumed, pacing angrily around my room. I'm not going to let him go back on his word!

Ever since I'd been a little girl playing with dolls, my father had promised me a reproductive license when I turned eighteen. It was a promise he'd renewed with every birthday, a promise that meant more to me than all the dolls and jewelry and cars he'd bought me over the years.

But today, with my long-awaited birthday finally arrived, I'd gotten a glittering necklace instead of the license I coveted, and a message to meet my father for lunch at my favorite restaurant.

I'd almost been too excited to eat, fully believing Daddy just wanted to give me the license in person. Instead, he'd given me a long speech about how proud he was that I'd preserved my virginity until now, about family responsibilities now that I was a woman, and about how important it was to the family fortunes for me to solidify ties with his current business partner. I stared at him through the entire speech, growing more and more horrified, but I managed to hold my temper right up to the end.

I'll still get you that reproductive license I promised, he said, acting like he was offering me a reward instead of telling me I was just a bargaining chip. It will be your wedding present. Just as soon as you marry Joshua.

I'm not going to marry Joshua! I shouted, tears in my eyes. "I don't even like Joshua!"

Riella, be reasonable, he'd said, as if my reaction was somehow unreasonable. I ignored him, hailing a cab to go home, and stewed on the injustice of what he'd demanded of me the entire way back. I couldn't believe he'd spring a condition like that on me, when he knew how long I'd wanted that license.

There had to be some way I could get what I wanted, without giving in to his demands. Reproductive licenses weren't cheap, and Daddy controlled the purse strings, but there were other ways to get one. The lottery was