On the eve of her wedding Kiley Hendrick surprised her fiance in bed with another woman. To get even she decided to sleep with her boss, Prince Rafiq. And not just sleep with him, be his mistress. Not the first thing I would have thought of, but she knew it would really burn her ex's ass. Kiley was your usual 20-something virgin. How she could have dated her
fiance for 3 years and never go past second base is beyond me. Rafiq was a good character. Your standard filthy rich prince, burned by one too many greedy woman treating him more like a meal ticket than a man, convinced the only way to save his sanity and his heart is, of course, to date these gold diggers but not get too close. It didn't help that his father paid his mother to stay out of his life and then left him with a series of nannies and tutors.
Maybe it's just me, but I have a problem with the whole mistress thing. I mean, who has mistresses these days? Girlfriends, yes, random one night stands, yes, but mistresses? Really? A mistress to me is a kept woman, someone who's only duty is to keep a rich man sexually satisfied without making any demands on his life outside of the bedroom. Sort of a hired hooker.
It seems like most of the time when I read mistress, what the
characters are really talking about is basically the same as girlfriend. Maybe the man stresses the impermanence of the relationship, but that doesn't make the woman his mistress. Paying her for sex does. I enjoyed reading this book, but the whole mistress theme made me roll my eyes.
