No (No, Maybe, Yes, Please Pt.1)

It is the best day of Jo’s life. Her scoop is driving the news cycle, and it looks like her reporting might bring down a corrupt senator. Then everything goes pear shaped. Her witness recants, the evidence turns out to be fake, and Jo is screwed. In the time it takes to hold a press conference, her career is destroyed and it's all the doing of the mysterious billionaire behind the senator, Julius Earl.

Jo confronts Julius Earl, and everything changes.

“I want to own you,” he says.
I feel his breath on my lips. I can’t move.
“I want to do things to you that you’ve never dreamed of,” he says.
His right hand touches my side.
“I want you to do things to me that you never dreamed of,” he says.
I make a noise that’s half whimper and half purr.
“I want you to be my possession,” he says.