Passion Abroad – A Billionaire Romance Novel

Chapter 7

When Erica showed up at Daniel’s suite with one of her bags, Daniel couldn’t help but smile. He had seen this coming long before she had. He looked at her bag and shook his head.

“Is this it?” he asked.

“I have two more in my room,” she said.

“I’ll send for them. Right now, you need to have your passport handy because I booked us on a flight later this evening,” he said. She looked at him and raised an eyebrow. “I knew you would come around,” he smiled. If she was not so happy at that moment, she would have been offended but she didn’t really care. She didn’t mind stepping into the next chapter of whatever this was. But when they got to Caracas, Daniel had another favor to ask of her, a favor she wasn’t so sure about.

“You know what would be really good?” he asked.

She shrugged and shook her head. “What?”

“I think that you being by my side would be a great idea,” he said.

She shook her head and shrugged.

“I don’t know the first thing about this market,” she said matter of factly.

“Well, you could be my legal adviser or something,” he said.

“You own thirty percent of a company worth thirty million dollars and you don’t have legal representation?” she frowned. He frowned and then smiled. “Yeah, that’s what I thought,” she said.

“Come on, you’d be my muse in there,” he teased.

“Really? Did you turn into Vince van Gogh overnight?” she asked smiling. He looked at her and shook his head before he took a step forward.

“Okay if I am a hundred per cent honest, are you going to come with me?”    

“Do a good job at convincing me and we’ll see.”    

“Okay, fine. I have never come here without some kind of company, mostly lawyers or someone…anyone. I need to go in there with someone otherwise these damn Venezuelans will eat me alive,” he said.

“But I don’t even know what to wear or what to say…” she started before he shrugged.

“We can always stop at a store on the way. We can get you everything you need,” he said with a smile. She looked into his eyes and smiled as he pulled her close to kiss her.

“Fine, let’s go,” she said with a smile. He slipped an arm around her waist and walked her out to the car. She didn’t remember the last time a man treated her like this. She was even more surprised when he took her to a clothing store. When she looked at the price tags, she wasn’t sure she wanted to be there. But Daniel looked at her and handed the store clerk his credit card. “You know you don’t have to do that, right?” she said as she looked at him.

“I brought you out here. You are my responsibility,” he said with a smile.

“No I’m not,” she shook her head as she looked at him.

“What? I have to take care of my woman?” Daniel said as he held her.

She raised an eyebrow at him. “Now I’m your woman?”

“Well, I would like you to be. Is that a problem?” he asked as he pulled her close to him and brushed her lips with his.

She shook her head and smiled. She actually liked how that sounded. She looked at him and kissed him softly before she grabbed a dress from the racks and walked to the changing room. She smiled when she got to the changing room.

“What are you doing, Erica? You are acting like you are this man’s girlfriend,” she thought as she changed into the green dress she’d picked off the rack. She walked out of the changing room and looked at her reflection. She was still looking at her reflection when Daniel walked over to where she was.

“Not bad,” he said in a low voice.

“Not sure those were the words I was going for,” she said with a smile. He nodded and handed her an eggshell white dress.

“Try this on. I think you’ll like it,” he said with a smile before he let his hand slip to her ass.

“Daniel, we are in public. In South America,” she said in a whisper.

“So? No one’s watching or anything,” he said as he looked at her.

She looked at him and shook her head before she walked to the changing room again. She looked at the dress Daniel had handed her and smiled. It was perfect to say the least. She took off the green dress and put on the fitted white sleeveless knee length dress before she pulled the side zipper up.

“Damn,” she thought as she looked at her reflection. She especially loved the neckline beadwork that accentuated her perfect cleavage. The fitted dress even made her ass look bigger than it actually was (or was it that her ass made the dress look especially good?) Daniel had a smile on his face when she walked out.

“They might just give me the company when they see you,” he said as she walked towards the mirror. The store clerk walked up to her and handed her a pair of blue red bottomed peep toe Louboutins.

“Oh my God. These are perfect,” she said as she put on the shoes. They looked perfect with the white dress she had on. The way she had her hair in a tight bun made her look especially sexy.

“That is exactly what I wanted to see,” he said in a low voice as his eyes went up and down her body.

“Really? It’s not too much?” she asked as she looked at him.

“Not at all,” he smiled and signaled the store clerk to run up the bill. “Do you have any idea how beautiful you are?” he asked. Erica felt her cheeks flush as he looked at her.

“Stop it,” she said looking away. He held her chin and turned her to look into her eyes.

“No Erica Hayes, I mean it. You are…beautiful,” he said in a soft voice as he looked at her. He lowered his head and kissed her softly. “Now let’s go and close that deal,” he said before they walked out of the store.

Erica could not really explain what she felt as she walked into the meeting on Daniel’s arm but when the meeting was done, she knew exactly what ‘eye candy’ meant. The company representatives had been giving her a look that made her feel like she was naked in a room full of men.