The Billionaire's Desire 2: Dubai Confidental by Ashley Blake Read Free Book Online Page B

has
never married and part of the reason is because mother has never approved of
any of his girlfriends.  Not one.  Natalia, who you met last week, was
desperate to marry my brother and I thought it would happen.  He wasn’t completely happy with her, but he was content.”
                Content?   I felt so sad
for Joshua that he almost settled on being content for the rest of his life
rather than in love! 
                “I don’t know that he felt he
deserved more.  But it didn’t matter because mother could not stand her.  We
never knew why.  Shortly after he brought her home to meet mother, he broke
things off.  She was probably a bit snarky with you when she met you because
he’s never brought anyone with him on these long trips, and she knows that it
means something that you are here with him.  So you, my dear, are somewhat of
an anomaly.  You seem to have captured my brother’s heart.”
                I slowly shook my head in
protest.  “Jake, Joshua just sees me as a business colleague.  He has taught me
so much, and I am very grateful, but I don’t think it’s any more than that for
him.”
                “What about for you, Sarah?”
                I was tongue-tied and wanted
to shift the conversation away from me, so I turned the table on him.
                “I could ask you the same
thing.  What does the future hold for you and Vivienne?”
                He, thankfully, let me off the
hook.
                “Vivienne is a wonderful
person.”
                I raised an eyebrow and did
not mean for him to see that.
                “Oh, you didn’t like her.”
                “No, no, it’s not that.  She
just was not extremely friendly when I met at her dinner the other night.”
                “She really is a kind person. 
She gets a bit possessive and jealous when there are other beautiful women in
the room.”
                I blushed at his compliment,
it was sweet.
                “We have been together for two
years and we have a nice time together.  We are very comfortable with each
other.”
                “Hmmm, what are you not
telling me Jake?”  I cocked my head to the side, with a slight smirk dancing at
my lips, giving him a playful inquisitive look.  I knew he was leaving something
out because he was not gushing about the woman he had been with for two years! 
There should have been more emotion there if she was special.
                He smiled.  “You seem to be
able to read me pretty well.”  He sighed and took a deep breath.  “I don’t really
talk about this much, but for some strange reason I feel I can trust you.  I
don’t know what it is about you Sarah, but I feel so comfortable with you, like
you’re my big sister, even though you’re only a few months older than me.”
                That made me feel good.  “I
know, it’s weird, isn’t it?  I feel the same way.  I think we connected
instantly.”  I reached out and grabbed his hand.  “I can see that what you’re
about to say is difficult.  Of course, you can trust me.  My lips are sealed.” 
I gave him a quick wink.
                “Thank you.  Okay, well when I
was in college, I met the love of my life, Lauren.  It was an all- consuming
love.  The kind you only read about in romance novels.  We came from two
completely different backgrounds.”  I could definitely relate to that.  
“We met freshman year and by the time we graduated I was ready to ask her to
marry me.  She ended up getting into law school in Chicago and New York but
chose to go to school in Chicago.  She said it was the better of the two
schools.  I was being groomed to run the company with Joshua so I had to stay
in New York.  I was devastated when she chose the Chicago school.  I wanted to
leave the company and be with