Wonderful! Absolutely love this book, didn’t want to put it down. I can’t get enough of Paradise.
Alistair and Eloise met at the The Paradise Club, he is her client, and you can’t mix business with pleasure. One Year Earlier: Alistair is away on business in Mykonos and can get home because of a storm to his fiancee Miranda. The storm passes quicker than expected, Alistair goes home. When he walks into his bedroom Miranda is laying in his bed, but he notices another figure as well. When Alistair walks closer he kicks something on the floor and she sits right up in bed asking him why he’s home early. When the man besides her move he can’t believe his eyes, it’s his brother, George. All their lives his brother took his girlfriends and had to be better than him. Ali tells them to get out but Miranda wants to explain. He tells her there is nothing she could say that would justify sleeping with his brother. She tells him she didn’t think he would be home tonight and he wasn’t suppose to find out like this. Ali tells them both to get out of his house. His brother tells him that Miranda is pregnant, and it’s George’s. Ali tells them both to get out of his life, his home his everything. The next day Jasper Fox, Alex Lewis, and Daniel DuPont come to check on him and get him cleaned up. When Miranda and George show up, his friends have his back and run block. Ali finds out that George and Miranda had know each other before they started dating, they knew each other in college and dated on and off. When Alistair brought her home, George thought it was his second chance with her and they started hooking up, for four years. Ali tells them to get out, he hates them both. Months later the boys take Ali out to celebrate his birthday. Alex tells Ali he may not be ready for this gift but when he is he can use it. Alistair ask what it is as he opens the box and sees a gold credit card with his name on it and a number. Alex tells him it’s a membership to the Paradise Club, Ali tells them he wants to go check out the club. Clara welcomes them all to the club, the other go the bar, while they all let her explain the club to Ali. When he’s done the joins his friends at the bar. Jasper and Daniel head off while Alex explains more about the rooms to Ali. Eloise arrives at work and is needed up in a room, Mr. King a new member has requested her. She is also told she is pick to join the Paradise Resort in a few months if she would like. As Elle arrives at Ali room she noticed he is very nervous. He blurts out that it’s his birthday, and he’s had bad luck to last a lifetime. She tells him to freshen up while she get the table set up. Elle gives Ali a message to help with his nerves telling him to relax before they have fun. As they talk Ali tells her it’s been a several months and tell her about his cheating ex. She can’t believe someone would cheat on him. They start making out, and Ali can’t believe he waiting so long, his mind starts wondering back to his ex, and Elle tells him to stop thinking about her. They both take a shower afterwards together, washing each other. After their shower Elle asks him f there is anything special he would like to do for his birthday, she can deliver any fantasy he’s ever had. Alistair not sure what he wants so Eloise explains to him some of his options. Not sure what he wants to do so Elle takes him to the voyeur theater and they both take a seat. Afterwards, Eloise head home, her friend Lauren ask her if she looked up Mr. King and she tells her he’s a client and she doesn’t want to lose her job. Elle is home alone as Lauren has gone away, she heads out to her local cafe and orders coffee. When she steps outside she runs right into someone knocking her coffee out of her hand and it splashes to the ground. When she looks up she sees it’s Alistair and he calls her name. So she takes off down the sidewalk and he runs after her. He tells her he owes her for the coffee, she tells him she has to go, she tells him it’s against the rules for them to be seen together aside the walls of the club. He tells her she’s right and to take some money for her dry cleaning and coffee. She grabs the money and runs away. Ali is back at the club and has requested Elle so she takes his money to give it back to him. She tells him it was to much and she not a prostitute, he tells her he never thought she was. She tells him to take it she could lose her job and he reluctantly does. She tells him it would be best if someone else take care of him and he tells her no. He tells her he’s sorry and he forgot himself for a moment and doing the right thing. She tells him they can only be strangers outside these walls. He tells her he’s sorry and will do anything. She questions him, she asks him if he’s alright being tied up and he says yes only by her. Elle calls for another woman to come and join her while they tease Alistair. He tells her maybe he needs to be punished more often. She tells him anything he wants day or night it can be fulfilled. A while later Ali goes back but request Vixen instead of Elle, he wants to know if it her or the club that makes him feel this good. He tells her it’s been a hard day and she tells him she can make it all better. As they proceed he can’t shut his mind off so he tells her that and tells her he is sorry. She tells him Elle isn’t working this weekend and he can book certain people. A few of the girls head out to Minx one of the hottest clubs in the city they’re in VIP section. They get champagne with sparkles and start celebrating. They’re a group of guys at the next table who keep hitting on them. Elle lets the music take over and she starts swaying, when she feels a body against her, when she turns around it’s one of the guys from the next table. He tells her he knows she is interested she just likes to play hard to get. He grabs her wrist and try to pull her against him and she tells him to let her go. She tells him if she doesn’t let go she’s going to kick him, when he is yanked out and slammed to the floor. Someone is standing over him yelling she said no. The guy on the floor is yelling who do you think you are and do you know who I am. When the standing man tells him he doesn’t care who he is all that matter is who he is and this is his club and he’s not welcome here. Security comes and escorts them all out of the club. When Ali turns to her he tells her he is sorry she should always feel safe in his club and drinks are on him for the rest of the night. Ali turns to leave and Lauren tells Elle to go after him and thank him. So she follows him through the crowds and into a set of doors for staff and up a set of stairs. When they reach his office he tells her to close the door, he tells her he is sorry for that man touching her and she tells him it’s not his fault. When Elle goes to leave Ali grabs her and tells her that seeing that mans hands on her made him wants to rip his eyes out. He tells Elle he can’t stop thinking about how she taste. He reaches down her pants and rips her panties from her and pulls them out and inhales them telling her he needs them for later. Then he tells her he didn’t cross the line. He tells her he’ll be seeing her soon and she turns and walks out the door. Eloise stayed up all night baking thinking about Alistair she doesn’t understand how this man got under her skin. Lauren and Elle talk about Ali and their job. Elle tells her she is going to go for a run she pushes herself to the limit. She is lost in thought when someone yells watch out and a soccer balls hits her on the head. When she looks up Ali is standing above her asking her if she’s alright. She tells him she’s fine and he tells her she took it pretty hard to the head. When someone behind him ask if Elle alright he tells them to go ahead without him. She looks over his should and realizes who they are and tells him she has to go she can’t be seen here she can’t lose her job. She takes off running and he runs after her keeping her pace. She tells him to go away and she digs in deep cutting through the forest. He grabs her wrist and pushes her against the tree, he tells her he needs to know if she’s been with any of his friends. He tells her he doesn’t care he can’t stop thinking about her. She tells him she hasn’t and he starts kissing her. She tells him he hasn’t been to the club and he tells her he’s been away for work. She tells him they need to stop they could get kicked out of the club. Next think Elle is pushed up against the tree and his hands are down her pants and he’s pulling her thong out. He inhales her scent she tell him to give them back there all sweaty. But he tells her they smell even better, and she tells him he has a problem. He tells her he’ll see her later and she tells him he knows where to find her. Then inhales her panties before jogging out of the forest. When Ali goes back to his friends they’re all gone except Jasper who ask him if he wants to grab lunch. Jasper tell him it was incredibly stupid what he did today. Jasper tells him she could get in a lot of trouble if anyone seen them together. Ali tells Jasper there’s something about her, something he likes. Ali asks Jasper if he’s content going to the club for his fix, no one does it for him. Jasper confess that there is a girl that he wonders what she does outside the club but he’s put that wall up because nothing can happen. Jasper ask Ali if he’d like a double date night to take his mind off all of it. Jasper and Ali sit and wait for their dates, Ali’s date is brunette, Lila while Jasper’s is the blonde, Vicky. They make their introductions and Lila looks up and down Ali. As they are seated Lila ask Ali what he does for a living, he tells her he works at a nightclub, to see how interested she is in him. As her demeanor flinches he realizes she after a rich guy and isn’t serious about a real connection. Ali ask her what she does and she tells him she’s a model. Lila ignores Ali most of the night, trying to get Jaspers attention. Jasper has one to many whiskeys when he tells everyone that Ali is the richest among the group. Lila eyes widen in shock and then she ask him if he’d like to take the party somewhere private. He tells her not really he needs to go, he tells Jasper never to invite him on a blind date and leaves. Alistair goes to the club and requests Elle, when she arrives she is told she’s been requested. Elle walks into his room and he is happy to see her. He kisses her and she tells him they are allowed to touch finally. He pulls off her dress and dives between her legs. After they get physical they lay and talk. Ali tells Elle he hasn’t been he because of work, then tells her he was on a date tonight and she guesses it didn’t go well. He tells her his friend set it up and she was a gold digger, that’s not his thing. She tells him she can only see him at the club, but they can order food and drinks, so maybe next time they can have a date at the club. He tells her he wants to have a date now, he’ll organize everything and she can take a bath. She calls him Mr. King and he tells her it’s Alistair or Ali not Mr. King. Elle falls asleep in the jacuzzi and Ali wakes her up letting her know everything is ready. The conversation is easy as they eat lobster and drink champagne. Alistair comes in during Elle shifts for the last month and they have dinner and spent the rest of the night working it off. Elle packs her baked goods and is headed to the local market, she finally got a bakery stall and has spent the last several days baking. Lauren helps her until she has to go for her father’s birthday. Alistair is on his way to his parents to meet his nephew, George and Miranda had their baby and his parents requested him to come. He head to the park to clear his mind, he pushes himself running. When he is done he see the market and heads to it and buys some flowers for Miranda. He notices towers of cupcakes and a line he heads that way thinking he could take dessert too. As he see the woman handing out boxes of cupcakes he thinks of Elle, when she turns he see it is her. Ali realizes she’s in over her head and rushes towards her asking her if she needs help. He asks her what she needs him to do, and she asks him if he wants to help her. He says he does so she tells him to pack the boxes while she serves. They work together for the next few hours moving around each other making a great team. As the crowd dies she thanks him for helping her. He asks her if she made them and she tells him she did and asks if he wants to try one. He tells her they are delicious and she tells him it’s her passion. Elle tells him that she’s working to buy her own bakery. Ali tells her if she needs any advise he’s here to help, but she tells him they can’t. Ali tells her if they need to talk in the club, during their dates, he will. Elle tells him she doesn’t want to be a charity case, and he tells her he only mention it because she has a talent he doesn’t offer help to he thinks are cute, that’s not how he does business. She offers him some cupcakes to go and thanks him for helping her. He tells her he is on his way to meet his nephew and he leaves. His parents greet him saying how happy they are to see him. He is met by loud screams from a baby and walks into a room where Miranda is seated with her baby. He can’t do this he can’t stare at the woman he once loved. His brother ask him if Miranda looks beautiful and how she gave him a son the next heir to the King family. He turns and tells his father he can’t deal with this. He congratulated them on Gabriel and turns and leaves. For a month Eloise goes to the market to sell her cupcakes, the whole time Alistair comes in like clockwork helping her out. Her hands are cold so Ali tries to warm them up and they get distracted. When someone grabs her money tin and Ali runs after them he chases but doesn’t catch them. Eloise is heartbroken its been her biggest day so far. She tells him she wants to go home but he tells her she needs to report it. The market organizer comes and tells Eloise the police are on the way. When they arrives she give them her statement but they tell her it’s not likely they will be caught. Alistair drives her home, she is in shock he tells her he won’t stay. She thanks him and he tells her he didn’t do anything. She tells him he’s done a lot and she can never repay him. He tells her he did if for selfish reasons, he got to hang out with her. She tells him he can’t say things like that and he tells her he can and will. She tells him she has had nothing handed to her she’s had to work for everything and he come into her life making her cross lines she never thought she would all she can do is think about him. She’s worked to hard for her independence and she won’t let anyone sweep her off her feet. He tells her that’s one of the sexist things about her, her independence. He tells her he wants her he can’t stop thinking about her. He wants her to tell him if she feels the same if there is something between them. She tells him he know why she can’t, he tells her to please tell him and places her hand on his chest. She tells him she does then he pulls her in for a kiss, they kiss fiercely. They shed all their clothes and fall onto the sofa, she tells him to forget the foreplay she needs him. He tells Elle he’ll never tire of her and she tells him her name is Eloise. 😉 He tells her it’s nice to meet her. They ask each other what their plans are for Christmas. He tells her he would like to take her on a date, and she tells him they have them at the club. He asks her if he could bring the date to his house and she says that’s awesome. Elle and Lauren are called in to work at the club it’s a busy night. After their shift they get dressed when two of their friends Sylvie and Camille sit down beside them. Camille ask Elle if she usually looks after Mr. King and she answers yeah. She tells her she understands why she’s always excited to see him. Everything in her stops, she thinks there’s no way Ali would do that to her. That idea of him coming in and seeing someone else hits her hard in the chest. Lauren pulls her out the door so no-one see Elle internal panic. They climb in the car and Lauren tells her how sorry she is she thought he was different. Lauren helps Elle out of the car once they are home. Elle tells her she is ready to get out of here and they decide to head to Lauren’s parents place early for Christmas. They then talks about going to the resort earlier as they were asked and weren’t sure at the time. Alistair gets all ready for his date with Eloise, he excused all his staff so she doesn’t feel uncomfortable. As he waits he lights a fire and looks out his window. When she is twenty minutes late he sends her a message but it doesn’t go through. So he tries to call her, but gets nothing, he tries all her social media and gets nothing. So he calls Jasper he tries her social and finds out she in Dorset with her roommate sitting by a fire. He questions Jasper and doesn’t understand, he tell him she ghosted him. Jasper tells him he needs to let her go she just used him, but he can’t see how. He ask Jasper to reach out to the roommate so he does and she won’t tell him what happened. Five Months Later: Ali heads to the Paradise Club Resort. After traveling and trying to get his mind off of Eloise. He heads to his villa and is introduced to Sierra who is his host. Sierra explains how the resort works compared to the clubs. He orders a burger and a happy ending message. Then Sierra says she’ll be back in forty five minutes for his message. Elle has the day off and his headed to the spa when her and Lauren stumble upon Sierra on the ground. Sierra twisted her ankle and is in pain and can’t get back to her client. She couldn’t call for help because she broke the device to call her boss. Elle offers to take her client to save her while she has her ankle looked at. Sierra gives her all the details of what the client wants, they exchange shirts and bracelets. Then Elle heads to the villa. Elle knocks before she enters the villa but pauses as icicles slide down her body and the man tells her to come in. She tells the man who has his back to her that his host had an accident and she’ll be his host for the rest of the week and then tells him her name is Elle. As soon as she says her name the man turns around and she can’t believe those hazel eyes stare back at her. She notices a few changes to him, as he exits the pool and rushes towards her. He question her if she’s the replacement and she’s here to message him. He tells her where to set up when there’s a knock on the door, Elle answers it to find out Sierra order a two person happy ending message. Elle introduces Roxy to Mr. King and he call her over to him.