The Billionaire's Gamble by Elizabeth Lennox Read Free Book Online Page B

working here for several years but is also going to law school.”
     
“I’m surprised she has time in the evenings. The dancers rehearse a lot of the time.”
     
“She goes to day classes. Things are a little reversed in our family.”
     
“What do you mean?”
    Sabrina raised one shoulder delicately. “My sister works nights and goes to school during the days. She’s also eighteen months younger than me but acts like she’s older. My sister is very protective of me for some reason,” she said, sampling the creamy potatoes.
“And she doesn’t want you to have anything to do with me,” he said, guessing accurately.
     
Sabrina noted the smile in his eyes and was relieved. “You’re right,” she said.
     
“So why are you here?”
     
“Because you don’t take no for an answer,” she said, chuckling softly.
     
“When it’s the right answer, I do,” he replied.
     
“What would be the right time to say no to you?”
    Sid arrogantly shrugged his shoulder. “I haven’t run across a good time so far but I’m willing to bet that it will arrive at some point in my life.” He smiled as she rolled her eyes.
    “How does someone become so confident? What happened in your life that has made you so incredibly….” She wanted to say arrogant but that wasn’t really the word she wanted to use although it definitely described him. “Assertive?”
He lifted his glass and took a sip of wine before answering her. “You’re assertive when it’s needed,” he said, not answering her question.
     
“I wasn’t very assertive tonight,” she joked.
     
“It wasn’t needed,” he responded in a matter of fact tone.
     
Her eyes showed her laughter. “Depends on your point of view,” she said.
     
“Touché,” he countered with a smile. “So is your sister any good?”
     
Sabrina laughed. “Of course she is.”
     
“Are you two close?”
     
“Yes. Aren’t you close with your family?”
     
“I have a brother,” he said without elaborating. “How do you like Vegas?” he quickly changed the subject.
    She ignored his change of subject and continued with her own curiosity. “Just a brother? No mother or father?” Surely the man had more than just a brother. What about the rest of his family?
“Everyone has parents,” was his only response.
    Sabrina noted the closed expression on his face and reacted to it, her mind attuned to the pain he was feeling but not sure why something so basic as parents would engender pain in a man so confident.
“Did Adam and Eve?” she asked, trying to inject a note of humor into the conversation.
     
He glanced up from his plate, not sure where the conversation had gone. “Excuse me?”
    She put down her wine glass and sat forward. “Think about it. Adam and Eve were formed by God, I’ll go with that. But how were the other people formed? Did Adam and Eve basically populate the rest of the world? Or did God create other people? And if he did, why don’t we read about them in the Bible?”
“Ah!” he said, smiling at her conversation. “I see your point. Are we all related somehow? Sounds awfully incestuous, doesn’t it?”
     
“My point exactly,” she said. “A little odd, wouldn’t you say?”
     
“Very odd.”
    They continued to talk about non-threatening subjects for the next two hours and Sabrina started to relax. The meal was absolutely wonderful and Sabrina knew that her plan to find something wrong with him had failed. In fact, she knew very little more about him than what she knew before. The information that he had a brother was the only knew point of knowledge she’d gained of the man during the entire evening. But that didn’t mean he wasn’t entertaining and wonderfully intelligent. She liked arguing with him. He definitely kept her on her toes. Each time she brought up a subject, he had arguments against her opinion. She suspected he chose the opposite viewpoint only to challenge her, but she was fine with that since he made her laugh