REVIEW: Sexy Beast by Jackie Ashenden

Sexy Beast by Jackie Ashenden lives up to its name with a steamy friends to lovers romance, the second in the Billion $ Bastards series.

Freya is ready to enact ‘Operation Orgasm’ with her best friend Everett’s help if he’s willing. She wants to show up at her cousin’s bachelorette party with some sexual knowledge to give her confidence, especially with her aunt who had taken her in as a child always lamenting Freya’s Amazonian height and indelicate nature and how she’d never attract a boy’s attention. So she’s decided it’s time to take Everett up on his offer from long ago, where he’d told her at a birthday party where she’d been drinking that he’d help her anytime with her ‘problem’. He might have forgotten that promise, but she definitely hasn’t.

Everett is elated and alarmed by Freya’s request. Elated, because his attraction to his best friend is no joke. Alarmed because she might realize that he’s not the nice guy she thinks he is – he likes his sex in a particular, non-vanilla fashion and showing her his dominant tendencies might scare her off for good. But he’s no fool and indulging in a taste of Freya’s submission leaves him, and her, wanting more. A scorching hot affair with a time limit is easy to succumb to, but can they turn it into a long lasting romantic relationship?

Be prepared for the heat coming off your ereader because this one sizzles from start to finish! Everett is a billionaire used to having everything he wants, but his friendship with Freya is something that has always frustrated him, mostly because she would never accept his financial help when he knew she needed it. Now that she’s asking for help in the bedroom, he’s ready and willing, though worried about taking things too far and ruining their friendship.

The start of their sexual relationship leads to new bonds and sharing of thoughts and intimacies that end up strengthening their friendship, though of course there are some rough patches to get through before their happy ending. The sex is plentiful and steamy with Dominance/submission scenes and Freya learns she just needed the right partner to have a fulfilling sexual experience (and then some). Their great sex soon leads to other feelings and the deepening of their friendship and the romance that ensues is equally satisfying. It’s an exciting and enjoyable addition to the series and a new favorite for my keeper shelf!

Book Info:

Publication: Apr 01, 2020 | Harlequin Dare | Billion $ Bastards #2

Commanding billionaire Everett Calhoun reveals his sexy dark side to his girl-next-door best friend in this smoking hot second installment of the Billion $ Bastards trilogy!

I was born bad. Maintaining tight control—in business and in the bedroom—is the only way to keep my darkness in check. So when my girl-next-door best friend, Freya, comes to me for a sexual favor, I don’t see the harm in giving her what she needs. After all, I’ve always kept her firmly in the friend zone.

But after showing her that there’s nothing wrong with her ability to orgasm, it’s all I can do to walk away. Unleashing my inner beast on the person who matters most to me is not an option. But she wants me… Is she prepared to follow my every command? To submit to my will and let me take her to the ultimate heights of pleasure?

Getting Freya on her knees should make me feel like the monster I am, but being with her leaves me more vulnerable, more human, than ever. I need to reclaim the friendship we had before I lose control completely, or will she have me on my knees…?