Bravo Unwrapped by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

“Isn’t it convenient how our rooms are connected by that balcony?” B.J. teased softly. She lay on top of him, feeling utterly wonderful, using his big chest for a pillow. Idly, she traced a spiraling circle on the hard, warm flesh of his shoulder.

Buck laughed. She felt the sound, low and deep and lovely, against her ear. “You didn’t think sharing the balcony was so damn convenient at first.”

“Ah. But now I see how wrong I was.”

“The great B. J. Carlyle, admitting she was wrong?” His arms tightened around her. “Never happens.”

“Remember this moment,” she instructed huskily. “Treasure it.”

“Oh, I will.”

She snuggled in closer. “So…what’s on the agenda for tonight?”

He rubbed her back with long, lazy strokes. “We could drive down to Nevada City for dinner. It’s an hour and a half ride, but they’ve got more than one good restaurant there.”

“Dinner somewhere other than the knotty-pine palace? I don’t know. I’ve gotten pretty much addicted to those iceberg-lettuce salads.”

“I noticed.”

“Hah.”

“And tomorrow, we could run off to Vegas.”

Her mouth went desert-dry. “Uh…Vegas?”

Something happened in his eyes, the seductive warmth cooling—for a second or two. But then he laughed. “Scared?”

“I, um, well…”

“Don’t worry. It wasn’t a proposal—at least, not of marriage.”

“Oh. Well. Fine, then.”

He tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. “The idea of getting married terrifies you, doesn’t it?”

She answered honestly. “I just don’t think I’m the marrying kind….”

“And who is?” He asked it so gently.

“Oh, I don’t know—nice women, I guess. Cooperative women. Women not brought up by L. T. Carlyle and a bevy of big-breasted Alpha Girls.”

“You’re nice.”

She scoffed, “Hardly.”

“You are, though sometimes you try your best not to be. And you do cooperate. On occasion…”

“I’m not cooperative enough for marriage—and can we talk about something else, please?”

His expression reproached her. But in the end, he let the scary talk of marriage go and explained why he’d suggested a trip to Las Vegas. “I have two half-brothers in Vegas.”

“More sons of the notorious Blake?”

He nodded. “One brother, Aaron, was born in a small Nevada town not far from Lake Tahoe. Aaron has two other half-brothers, Cade and Will. Their mother, Caitlin, is quite a character.”

“Yet another in Blake’s endless string of lonely wives?”

“You got it—though Caitlin Bravo hasn’t been all that lonely since Blake disappeared from her life. She likes men. And they like her.”

“And your other Las Vegas half-brother?”

“Fletcher comes from Dallas by way of Atlantic City. Fletcher and Aaron are both in the casino business—high up in the casino business. Aaron’s CEO of High Sierra, and Fletcher runs Impresario.” B.J. made a sound of admiration. High Sierra and the recently opened Impresario were two of the hottest supercasinos on the Strip. Buck added, “A company called Silver Standard Resorts owned High Sierra at one time. Not anymore. Now, High Sierra and Impresario are owned by the Bravo Group, for which both Aaron and Fletcher work—and in which they’re both part-owners.”

“The Bravo Group being…?”

“A resort/casino partnership created about three years ago and heavily invested in by a Bravo cousin, the famous and fabulously wealthy Jonas Bravo of the L.

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