BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE: “Sign It Now” Series Book 1 (Billionaire Bad Boy Alpha Male Romance) (Contemporary New Adult Romance Short Stories) Read Free

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    Meanwhile Carrie’s own love life was in a permanent coma. Anytime Sophia tried to mention that to Carrie she brushed it off and made up a lie about some boyfriend who was backpacking through Europe for the past eight months. Sophia and her other friends knew it was a crock, but they were all going to have to eat crow if Carrie ever showed up with a guy who had been backpacking through Europe for eight months.
    “I do not like him. Like I said, he is gorgeous and charming and hella rich, but he is too much of a jerk for anyone to get close to him. I’m sure he just uses women and tosses them aside when he is done.”
    “Well, if he wanted to use me for any night of the week I might be down for that,” Carrie said.
    “Oh, wait. What about your man in Europe?”
    “Oh, he doesn’t have to know. I’m pretty sure if your man is gone after a certain period of time then it is perfectly acceptable to cheat on him. It is a loophole. I’m sure it is a fact. The internet does not lie.”
    Sophia laughed and hit Carrie playfully as the girls continued to eat their ice cream bars.
     
    Sophia shut her briefcase, thankful that the weekly investors meeting was over. She was really getting tired of having these meetings, but she knew that it was a part of the process when she signed up. But they were intensely boring and they were full of the same repetitive questions and charts and plans. She had to sit there waiting for each member of The Wrecking Crew to put their two cents worth in and most of it was just repeating what the person before her had said. It was really annoying and she was not sure how much more she was going to be able to take before she stood up one day and screamed to high Heaven about it.
    But she smiled and held her own anyway, waiting for the chance when one of them would call on her to speak and add something to the meeting. It had not really happened yet and this was the third meeting, but she was prepared for anything. There was no way she was going to be caught off guard.
    Or at least that was what she thought.
    “Oh, wait. I had something I needed to ask Sophia before we officially wrap things up today,” Brad said.
    Sophia groaned and hoped that it was not audible to the group. Brad seemed to hear it because he smiled widely as he stood up and walked to the front of the conference table. He pointed to the projected growth gap for the Mid-West states, which was their targeted demographic for the first month. They had explained to her that this was going to be their test market.
    “Sophia, can you tell the group why you chose these three states to start the test market in?” Brad asked.
    Sophia could not believe he was asking her this. He had been right there when Mary Andrews had suggested that as the most logical place to start, but she had said she did not want to do Michigan. Which was on the graph for some reason. Sophia was not sure what was going on or what Brad was getting at.
    “I didn’t; that was Mary’s initial suggestion and we all agreed upon it together. You were there, Brad.”
    “Yes, I was. And I distinctly remember hearing Mary say that she did not want to include Michigan in this initial market. Isn’t that right?”
    “Yea. What is the point you are getting at?”
    Brad laughed in that cocky manner of his that seemed to take over the entire room. The man loved to hear himself talk so badly that it was sickening. Sophia felt her whole body getting hot and sweat starting to trickle down her face. She casually wiped it without anyone noticing.
    “Well, the point I’m trying to make, Sophia, is that we all said that we did not plan to include it but it is included right here in the graph.”
    “Well, I didn’t make the graph.”
    “Right, but we stated last meeting that it needed changed because we had seen it listed then. It was your job to have this removed. It isn’t too hard to follow one simple instruction is it?” Brad asked. He rested cockily on the