Page 11 of The Billionaire's Accidental Legacy

“I’ll take one,” she said.

She slid the card forward.

And the one that came back to her was exactly what she had hoped for.

She kept her face impassive, and then allowed her forehead to pucker. Let him wonder.

Bidding began in earnest with many more people making trades.

Another round, three folded.

The pot was growing, bigger and bigger.

She was getting to the top of her budget.

And suddenly, it was just her and him. Seated across from each other with chips in between them. Her whole future riding on this moment and yet...

Right now the moment felt bigger than her future. It was just her and him. This man she’d set out to conquer. This man who haunted her.

You’ll either lose everything or you’re finished.

She was finished either way. She’d vowed to be finished.

She didn’t have any more money to gamble with. Any more and she would be reaching into Maren’s pot, and she had no way of knowing how steep of a game her sister was involved in.

They were the only two left.

She prayed he would call.

“I raise you,” he said.

The amount of money he raised exceeded what she had. By so much it was impossible.

She could win this. She wouldn’t fold.

She wouldn’t lose.

And that meant... That meant it was time to take a risk.

“I... I see you,” she said, her eyes locking with his. “And I raise you...my body.”

CHAPTER TWO

ITWASHER. He knew the moment he saw her. The woman from the casinos, all those months ago. Months in between, and he had not forgotten her. He couldn’t. She’d changed her appearance. Her makeup, her hair, the style of dress. She’d altered her appearance all three times he’d seen her and still he’d known.

You could not cover the electricity that arced between them with a change of hair color. He’d seen her that first time on the casino floor and it had been like a match strike against the hardest part of him.

But it was more than sex.

He could have sex anytime he wanted. But this... This was something more.

She intrigued him.

And it took a lot to intrigue him.

She was a bold thing. And there was something else to her, and had been from the moment they’d met.

She saw him.

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