Page 4 of One Night Billionaire

that wasn’t out to seduce every man in the room with a practiced ease was enticing.

“You should go talk to her,” Jake clapped a hand on his shoulder.

“Maybe later,” he answered. Brian took another sip of his drink and turned back to his friends.

“You’d probably strike out anyway,” Darren joked.

“No one could possibly strike out as much as you,” Brian threw back at him, slipping easily into the banter.

“Dude, we are each worth a billion dollars. We don’t even need game,” Darren said.

“And yet it’s you and your hand most nights.” Brian took a sip of his drink to cover the grin that was growing.

This was why he always agreed to these trips. He got to relax eventually, and it felt good. At work, he was the boss and was always directing other people to do something or do it himself. Here, no one needed anything from him.

They were here to relax, and he had never been more grateful that it was working. Jake was always pushing for this, and he needed to stop fighting back and make sure he helped plan the next one.

His gaze drifted back to the brunette. She and the other woman had found a table to stand at that was just out of the corner of his eye. He didn’t even have to turn his head to see her.

She looked up, her gaze meeting his before ducking away. In his day-to-day experience, that would have been a planned glance meant to intrigue him. He still wasn’t getting that vibe from her.

“Go talk to her,” Jake stressed. “She’s hot and seems interested in you, too.”

“If you don’t, I will,” Darren tossed back the rest of his drink. “Refills?” he asked.

They both nodded and Darren headed back to the bar.

“Maybe, after another drink,” Brian decided.

“Since when do you need liquid courage?” Jake asked.

Brian laughed, turning his focus back on his friend completely. “I don’t know. She doesn’t seem like the usual women we pick up.”

Jake nodded. “It’s the dress.”

Shocked, Brian nodded. “That was my thinking. She keeps fixing it.”

“Like she never wears anything that short.”

“We watching them from afar again?” Darren returned.

“Shut up,” Brian said, taking his drink.

As he sipped, he watched her once again, ready to make a move when two men joined their table.

“Looks like it was a waste of time anyway.” He barely heard Darren say.

The brunette looked around one of the men and smiled at him. Damn. His radar was way off if he’d missed that she was here with another man.

He didn’t so much as flirt with a woman that was in a relationship. It was strictly off-limits for him with no exceptions, business or personal.

“Sorry, man,” Jake said. “I wouldn’t have guessed that either. Guess we were wrong.”

“Yeah,” Brian didn’t look back her way again. He had no intentions of doing so ever again. He hated cheaters.

“Umm,” Darren said.

“What?” Brian bit out, not caring whatever nonsense Darren was going to joke about next.

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