Billionaire Season 3: Summer Ablaze (Billionaire Season Trilogy) by Kimball Lee Read Free Book Online Page A

chin, his lips soft and urgent against hers and they were lost in each other with no hope of ever being found.
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    They walked along the beach holding hands and catching up on every detail they missed in each other’s lives in the long days while they were apart. Thirty days had seemed like an eternity and they vowed not to let anything come between them again. 
    “It’s safe to say your dad will never speak to me again, I hope you’re okay with that,” William said as the surf rushed in to cover their bare feet and legs and then retreated. William wore an old pair of jeans and a thin fitted t-shirt and Allie wore itty-bitty bikini bottoms and one of his soft linen shirts.
    “I’m trying not to care what my dad thinks, he showed up when I was vulnerable and acted like he wanted to have a relationship with me, but people don’t change that easily. I do feel a little guilty for not going with him but, not a major catastrophe. ”
    “If I rattle off a list of serious obligations I set aside to be here with you will it help? I blew off tons of business meetings, an opportunity to buy the Saints, a charity polo match, my father’s wedding….”
    “Wait a minute, what Saints, and you play polo?”
    “I do and I’m damn good at it, the team can’t possibly win without me,” he laughed and told her that Walden was going to fill his spot on the polo team and that it was astonishing how well Walden was doing. “And I’m referring to the football team— those Saints— I’m interested in acquiring the franchise. You know, Walden claims his friendship with the amazing Alaina Darling has changed his life. I know how he feels, you’ve changed my life so much for the better, Allie, I was simply going through the motions before you climbed into my car at the airport, dripping all over my fine leather seats. You have quite an effect on the Warfield men— my father expects you to attend his wedding, by the way. And I have to admit that your hookup with Walden was my doing, not that the two of actually hooked up, I’d have a hard time with the idea of you sleeping with him.”
    “Just like that you’re going to buy an NFL team, how much does it cost these days to ‘acquire’ the New Orleans Saints? And I did sleep with Walden once, not sleep as in slept with , we didn’t have sex. Please don’t give me that look, just do not go ballistic over this William. I passed out in that glass room on his roof and slept off a Sazerac cocktail incident. Oh holy shit, are you gonna be pissed because I went on a date with Brodie Maguire, got drunk, and your brother kind of rescued me?”
    “A date with Brodie, wow, this just keeps getting better and better,” William said, scrubbing a hand over his face and standing still as waves crashed around him, soaking his clothes.
    “You know,” Allie said, climbing up the beach and plopping down in the soft white sand. “You are the one who instigated this entire set of events, I was happy as a lark to be in love and content with you. I was not the one to mess up what we had, and you don’t hear me asking how many women you’ve had since….”
    “Okay, okay, you’re right. I have no right to question or get mad and I know you didn’t sleep with him. I haven’t thought of any woman but you, darling girl, and I don’t intend to… ever. Besides, if my little brother had gotten one taste of what you have to offer, he wouldn’t have given up so easily.”
    “Hmm, I thought you said this wasn’t just about sex,” she said with a bewitching twinkle in her eye.
    William stood over her scowling, hands on his hips and honest to God he was so damn luscious it hurt to look at him. His tattered jeans were wet from the Gulf and water had soaked his thin, white t-shirt so that the trail of dark hair running from his navel downward was visible and made her swallow hard . He was built like one of those action figures kids played with, broad, thick shoulders tapering to a narrow waist.