Kiss me if you dare: Alpha Billionaire Romance (The Secret Matchmaker Book 3) by L.N. Pearl, S.K. Lee Read Free Book Online Page B

me and was fighting them with everything she had. To the point of presenting me with my best match. No small wonder she’d needed a drink to cope.
    "Hi handsome." Sofia reached for me and touched the side of my face. She lifted herself to her tiptoes and brushed a soft kiss on my cheek before pulling back. "I bought our tickets. I hope you don't mind."
    "Not at all." I winked at her and offered my arm. "I'll place a few bets and pick up a few for you too, if you like."
    "Oh, I'm not the betting type." She laughed and moved next to me like she belonged beside me.
    Some part of me knew she would fit beautifully into my life. She would support me, understand me and look incredible next to me, but I just couldn't fathom moving forward with her until I was able to really speak with Lila. I needed to know that there was nothing between us. I couldn't shake the feeling that something still thrived beneath my pride and her denial.
    "Do you like playing it safe?" I asked, and stopped in front of the betting counter.
    "Absolutely. I'm quite traditional in every sense of the word. I love stability more than anything else." She turned and wrapped her arms around herself as the warm winds of the desert blew again.
    "And you're interested in real estate?" I asked, laughing softly due to the absurdity of her comment.
    The market we lived in was anything but stable. I was a wild card myself, wanting to run around the world and never settling too long in one place. I glanced at her before turning my attention on the older man in front of me.
    "I'd like to place a wager on your least likely to win." I smiled and slid a handful of bills across the opening just below the plate-glass window.
    "You feel like going for the underdog?" The guy chuckled and took my cash.
    "I'm doing it for a friend. She's a risk taker and the kind of girl who just isn't willing to take no for an answer." My smile widened at the thought of Lila. She was wild and untamed, the kind of woman I'd pick up in a bar and offer a ring to without thinking twice about it.
    "Who's this friend?" Sofia's voice was soft and unassuming.
    I glanced over at her and turned toward the stands. "Lila. You said you had the chance to meet her? She's something special."
    "I did. I met her last night. I was a little intimidated by her. She's incredibly beautiful. In a natural way." Sofia slid her arm into mine again.
    "Yeah, she has absolutely no clue of how gorgeous she is. She walks in a room and every head turns, but she's one of those girl's next door. You know... that thinks she's just average and she's more comfortable with that thought than accepting the truth." I smiled and moved back, dropping her arm and motioning for her to take her seat.
    I moved in beside her and leaned back, clasping my hands in my lap. I glanced over at her as she moved to the edge of her seat and turned to smile at me.
    "I love this place. It's so much fun. It's a thrill like no other." Her eyes danced with excitement and I couldn't deny the fact that I was drawn to her. Who wouldn't be?
    She was sharp, smart, funny and incredibly sexy. Any man in the whole damn place would be beyond thrilled to just sit next to her. All this and I was struggling.
    I leaned back and nodded. "Yeah. This is great."
    She got caught up in the races and I let my mind wander. The night with Lila in my car was the first thing to slam into me. The soft panting of her neediness was the first sound I heard inside my thoughts. She was so fucking hot, bent over and willing to let me have her any way I wanted her.
    The feel of her back pressed to my chest as I took her at such a deep angle felt indescribable, and better than anything I'd ever experienced. The office encounter came at me next, the unabashed way she opened herself to me and accepted the deep fucking we both needed. Her body was a fantasy I couldn't let go of.
    But it wasn't the sex that was twisting the knife in my chest. It was the realization that I was so completely pissed