The Bachelor

CONTENTS Playlist Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Epilogue Acknowledgments Newsletter Marni’s Midnighters About the Author Mr. Hookup The Playboy Also by Marni Mann Copyright © 2023 by Marni Mann All rights reserved. Visit my website at: www.MarniSMann.com Cover Designer: Hang Le, By Hang Le Editor: Jovana Shirley, Unforeseen Editing, www.unforeseenediting.com Proofreaders: Judy Zweifel of Judy’s Proofreading and Chanpreet Singh No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. ISBN-13: 979-8-9871060-4-4 To my ladies who fantasize. Who dream about all the places and positions and appetites a man can satisfy. Who want to be ravaged. Worshipped. Devoured. Camden is for you. PLAYLIST “Me & My Demons”—Omido x Silent Child “Not Enough”—Elvis Drew x AVIVIAN “PLEASE”—Omido, Ex Habit “Cravin’ ”—Stileto, featuring Kendyle Paige “I Want You”—Reignwolf “A Closeness”—Dermot Kennedy “I Can’t Go on Without You”—KALEO “Chainsmoking”—Jacob Banks “Her Life”—Two Feet “VANISH (INTERLUDE).”—SUNDERWORLD “SUMMER RENAISSANCE”—Beyoncé “Haunted”—Beyoncé You can find the playlist on Spotify PROLOGUE Camden Nine Years Ago Oaklyn fucking Rose, I thought as I walked into my sister’s bedroom after having just seen Hannah’s best friend in a bikini for the last hour, a bunch of us hanging out in our hot tub. Holy shit, that girl gets hotter by the day. Tight body. Nice rack. At this age, I was sure she was a virgin—most of the girls in our sophomore class were. And that was the reason I’d come into my sister’s room after the little party we had. Everyone had already gone home, Mom and Dad were due back any minute, the empty beer bottles were hidden in the trash, and buried beneath those was a jar of water with all the cigarette butts swimming inside. We hoped the bath would drown out the smell of ash. My sister and I were always careful, hiding all the evidence. Except for now, apparently. Her ONE Camden There was no way in hell that my twin sister, Hannah, should leave me alone with her best friend in their apartment. That was rule number one. Rule number two was that I shouldn’t be mentally stripping the jeans and sweatshirt off Oaklyn’s perfect, tight, lean body. I shouldn’t be fantasizing about wrapping those gorgeous legs around my waist and slowly burying my dick into her pussy. I shouldn’t have this desire to make her scream so fucking loud that the neighbors on both sides would come banging on the door. But that was what I was doing. Because, goddamn it, she was so fucking hot. So enticing. So sweet. I just wanted to twist her long brown hair around my wrist and dirty her up a little. Oaklyn Rose was the one girl I’d always wanted and the one girl who had always been off-limits. The twin brother couldn’t touch the