The Billionaire's Jackpot: Betting on You Series: Book Four by Jeannette Winters

Author:Jeannette Winters [Winters, Jeannette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Jeannette Winters
Published: 2015-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

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Drew was lying on the couch watching a football game when she entered the living room. The television was so loud he hadn’t heard the elevator open. Blossom was still on her mat out on the balcony. Back so early. There could be two reasons for that. Either she couldn’t wait to be back in his arms, or she didn’t enjoy her time out with the other women. Unfortunately, the expression on her face wasn’t one of want and desire. It was more serious, like she had a lot on her mind. Damn. I thought they would have hit it off. Looks like another bet I would have lost. It would seem he was on a losing streak lately. What’s with that? I always win. Everything. It was the competitive edge he had. Without that, what was he left with? Nothing.

Grabbing the remote from the coffee table, he turned off the TV and reached out a hand, inviting her to come and sit on his lap. No matter how bad her night had been, he would make her forget about it.

Katherine came over, but instead of sitting on or beside him, she sat on the coffee table opposite. Oh, this is bad. The words no man wants to say came out of his mouth before he could stop it.

“What’s wrong? Do you want to talk about it?” NO! He screamed internally. What am I doing? I’m going to regret this. Why was it when he was with her, he had no control over what came out of his mouth? He had never asked or cared before. Maybe that was the problem. He cared. Damn, how did that happen? Drew never should’ve invited her to stay with him. This closeness confused things. Made him feel things he had never felt before and act like a teenager with his first girlfriend. This was not what I had planned. His plan was bring her here, get whatever there was between them out of his system, and move on. Simple. So what went wrong? It’s not her, it’s me. I changed the game. Nothing had gone as planned and by the expression on her face it was about to get worse. God, don’t let her say she wants to go home. He wasn’t ready to let her go, not today, not tomorrow.

That realization felt like a punch to the gut. It wasn’t what she was about to say that concerned him. It was his reaction to it. He knew exactly what advice he would’ve given his friends at a time like this. Take a risk, open up, tell her how you feel, or you will lose her. That was what he would say was best for them. But he knew what the outcome was going to be—those women loved them, it really wasn’t a risk at all for them. He and Katherine were a different story. Although he didn’t come from a broken home, he knew firsthand what an unhappy home did to a family.

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