Sandy S.
3.75 stars--SEXY BEAST is the second instalment in Jackie Ashenden’s contemporary, adult Billions $ Bastards erotic, romance series focusing on three friends and business partners Everett Calhoun, Damian Blackwood and Ulysses White. This is billionaire Everett Calhoun, and auto mechanic Freya Johnson’s story line. SEXY BEAST can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalment is revealed where necessary. NOTE: There are some scenes of domination and spanking that may not be suitable for more sensitive readers. Told from dual first person perspectives (Everett and Freya) SEXY BEAST follows the friends to lovers relationships between thirty two year old billionaire Damian Blackwood, and thirty year old Freya Johnson. Freya has been in love with her best friend since she was sixteen years old but having lost her mother at an early age, raised by an aunt who destroyed our heroine’s self esteem, Freya battled between head and heart as it pertained to Damian Blackwood. An invitation to be Damian’s plus one at a charity auction in London, England found Freya stepping out of her comfort zone, asking Damian if he was willing to help her with achieving her first O. What ensues is the building sexual relationship between Freya and Damian, and the fall-out as Damian struggles with his own needs and demands, believing himself unworthy of Freya’s love. The relationship between Freya and Damian is a friends to lovers but Damian is a sexual Dominant and demands obedience in all things sexually related. Freya will soon discover that she is a willing and cooperative partner for the man that she loves but Damian struggles with what he needs from his best friend, a friend whose heart he is about to destroy. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense with Domination and spanking. SEXY BEAST is a quick read; a story of friendship, power, control and acceptance. The premise is fast paced and entertaining; the romance is steamy and hot; the characters are strong, energetic, broken and hurt