The Billionaire's Game (FREE Chapters)

By Ava Greene

Will the mysterious, stubborn billionaire be my rescuer or my executioner?

Jessica Mallory was just dumped by her longtime boyfriend at the altar. Instead of facing her friends and family, she decides to go on their honeymoon to Monaco – Monte Carlo – on her own. After getting drunk and playing a bad high-stakes game of poker and losing more money that she couldn't pay back, Jessica has no idea what she was going to do.

Billionaire, professional gambler, Matthew Miller is the gruff, bad boy that saves the day. He has watched her playing right into his hands all night. This woman didn't know how to keep a poker face if her life depended on it. He offers to pay up her debts to the casino.

He has one request. Marry him or have the authorities take her in for her gambling debts. She wants to say no, but there is something about him that wakes her up inside. Something she has never felt with anyone else, including her ex.

 

Note about this book: this is the first ten chapters of a standalone steamy billionaire romance. It contains cliffhanger.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ava Greene
• Release date: Feb 19, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215335789

Book preview

1

Jessica looked out the window as the plane started to descend. The gigantic green and widespread mounds of the Alps came into view, which took her breath away. The night skyline was lit up from all the lights of the beautiful city. If Jessica looked closely, she could make out the Hotel De Paris and Monte Carlo. Her stomach started jumping with anticipation and excitement. It was as if this one image could erase all the pain and heartache she had experienced earlier that day, and it almost worked until she turned to her side to share her excitement with Spencer and remembered that he wasn’t sitting next to her.

Her mind wandered back to that morning—a day she was hoping she could just forget. She felt so humiliated. Spencer was supposed to be her boyfriend, her best friend, and her everything. She thought she knew him like the back of her hand, but you never really know anyone…and that was what deeply hurt her. Today was supposed to be her wedding day, and instead of it being the best day of her life, it was actually the worst. She had stood up at the altar, in her curve-fitting white Vera Wang wedding dress, alone. Just like she was going on her honeymoon alone. Both events had taken months to prepare because it was something they had always dreamed of and wanted, except it wasn’t what Spencer wanted anymore, but instead of telling her that he had concerns about the wedding, he just left her humiliated in front of all of their family and friends.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Cote d’Azur Airport. Local time is 5 pm, and the temperature is 67 degrees. For your safety and comfort, please remain seated with your seat belt fastened until the Captain turns off the Fasten Seat Belt sign. This will indicate that we have parked at the gate and that it is safe for you to move out of the cabin. At this time, you may use your cellular phones once the Fasten Seat belt sign has been turned off.

Please check around your seat for any personal belongings you may have brought on board with you and please use caution when opening the overhead bins, as heavy articles may have shifted around during the flight. If you require deplaning assistance, please remain in your seat until all other passengers have deplaned. One of our crew members will then be pleased to assist you.

On behalf of Air France Airlines and the entire crew, I’d like to thank you for joining us on this trip, and we are looking forward to seeing you on board again in the near future. Have a great evening," the flight attendant said over the intercom.

Jessica changed her phone setting from airplane mode to regular mode. She had 27 missed calls and about 50 text messages—all from her friends and family and Spencer’s family, wondering where she was and if she was okay. She hadn’t told anyone where she was going. Once the realization had hit her that Spencer was not coming, she fled the church before anyone could pull her aside and try to comfort her. What could they have said that would make her feel better? Nothing. She was thankful that the limo was still out front. She had jumped inside and had the driver take her back home, where she changed out of her wedding dress and picked up her packed suitcase. Before she knew it, she was on her way to Newark Airport and out of the country. She closed her phone without replying to any of her messages and dumped it back in her purse. She would answer all of them later because all she wanted to do right now was get to her hotel and relax. His parents had booked them a suite at the famous Hotel De Paris, and at this very moment, she wanted nothing more than to feel like royalty since her fairytale wedding was pulled out right from underneath her. She really needed to stop thinking about that.

Getting out of her seat, she grabbed her bag from the overhead bin and made her way to the front of the plane.

If you’re going to Monaco, there is a shuttle bus waiting in front of the airport that will take you across the bridge from Nice, the flight attendant at the airplane door informed her.

Thank you, Jessica replied. This was the first time she had walked through an airport on foreign soil, and everything was written in French. The feeling alone made her sigh with relief. She was across the world from home, where she wouldn’t run into anyone she knew and have to explain or talk about what happened this morning. For that, she was very