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Harry steps up to the stage, and as he does, I glance up But not at Harry No At the s spread wide, ar a suit, like the others, but he looks like a cross between a businessman and a male model Dark hair, with just a hint of wave to it Dark, intense eyes His suit is impeccable and clearly expensive He’s totally polished, except for the dark stubble along his jawline So

His eyes are on aze away fro me

“Welcouests, and I’hest bidder for each girl gets a ith her No questions asked”

I shoot him a panicked look

“My girls are worth it,” Harry says “They can live for et chosen now,” he adds,his eyebrows as if to say “shut up and take what you can get”

I do

This was never part of the plan Dance a little Probably get groped But this? A week at the beck and call of a man I’ve never met?

I’ the men

“We’ll start the auction with Gracie over there Starting bid, one hundred thousand”

My jaw snaps shut, and any thoughts of trying to get out of this float away A hundred grand would save my father Not coood start

I watch the other dancers get auctioned off One goes for a quarter of a million One for just over a hundred thousand

The entire ti at me

Not him Let one of those other men buyBenign So in him, his intensity, the way he watches me, makes me feel like he’d turn my life upside down in about a minute flat Anyone else Anyone else

Just not him

“Which brings us to Samantha,” Harry says, and I take a deep breath