How to Marry a Billionaire by Ally Blake

Author:Ally Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

A couple of hours later the party was in full swing. Chris and the girls had enjoyed a sumptuous Japanese dinner, including enough sake to lubricate their vocal cords. And then the karaoke machine lit up, a spotlight showcasing the microphone that stood alone and lonely mid-stage.

‘Here we go,’ Cara said under her breath and Adam saw her hands clenching and unclenching upon the table.

He reached out and placed a hand over hers, their fingers meshing together, hoping to settle her. But she only stiffened all the more. She was desperately nervous for Chris; he could feel it. Sincerely worried for him. Sincerely. That was not a word Adam had had cause to use before when referring to a woman in his life. He gently massaged her palm until he could tell she was relaxing.

He had reason enough to keep her happy, to keep her comfortable, to sit with her, to tell her when he thought she had done a good thing. He had to be nice to her for Chris’s sake. For Chris and for the sake of the company.

But even as he thought it he realised how ridiculous it sounded.

There was no way he was gravitating to the woman every time she was in the room for the good of the company. He was gravitating towards her because he was caught in her gravitational force. He was like a moon spinning around her planet. The day spent making phone calls and shouldering a workload he could just as easily have shuffled onto someone else proved that.

Where she was, there he wanted to be. Not because he wanted to keep her in check, or because she was the life of the party. Not just because he felt an uncontrollable need to touch her whenever he had the chance, but because he also felt a deep-seated need to protect her. And that was the worst reason he could possibly have.

Disentangling his fingers, he stood, his chair scraping against the polished wood floor, earning several severe glances from the television crew.

‘Where are you going?’ Cara whispered, her husky voice washing over him in the darkness, and he felt something tugging deep within him at her concern.

There was only so much sincerity he could take before it began to make a subversive impact, so he didn’t answer her, merely walked away, not caring about the shaft of light he let into the set as he stormed from the room and outside.

He took off up the street, feeling the need for fresh air. He needed something other than the heady, disturbing scent of flowers that seemed to have filled his nostrils and addled his brain ever since she had joined them in the car.

It was intoxicating. He was intoxicated. There could be no other explanation for the sensations creeping through his body and mind. No explanation. No excuse. No reason to let them get any further. He was not the type to fall prey to such intoxication. He’d had his last drink of that delicious scent and he had to give it up before he became addicted.

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