Greene's Riches (A Billionaire Romance - Vol. 1) Read Free Page B

tonight,” he said, flashing that smile one again.  She did not know how long this could or would go on, but she did not want to stop. Her answer came soon enough.
                 
    “Excuse me, Richard?” a woman called out. “There you are, dear. It’s time to sit, time to sit. The speeches will start soon.” A beautiful brunette in a flowing white gown who truly did look like an angel had looped her arm through Richard Greene’s.
                 
    Of course, he was here with someone, Alexis thought. One doesn’t stay the Most Eligible Business Man on the Market forever.
                 
    “It was so nice to meet you, Ms. Black,” he said, smiling warmly, but in a much more conserved way now. “You should get back to your date.”
                 
    She smiled, “Oh, yes. I suppose it’s time.” At least she could leave the situation with him thinking that she had come here with someone.
                 
    She watched as the perfect man and his perfect woman walked away, chattering intimately on the way to their table, before finally resigning to her seat next to Johnny, who now sat prepared with several pens and pencils sticking out of his breast pocket.
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The speeches and the dinner had been perfect. Alexis had been happy about nearly every detail. The night had actually turned out very smoothly, after almost being ruined by nearly making Richard Greene spill wine all over his tux. She had been able to break herself out of her looping reverie of marrying him, by reminding herself that she never even stood a chance, at least judging by the beautiful woman next to him all night. After overcoming this personal obstacle, everything from the perspective of someone looking for a hot un-televised breaking news story went well.
                 
    Janice had ended up presenting her son to the audience to announce that he would be taking the place of her former partner, who everyone managed to avoid mentioning until now and intelligently continued to do so afterwards. Then, the thirty-two year old Benjamin Williamson spoke in acceptance of his new post, and in thanks to his mother for all of her work. He gave her the one gift that not only made them both more loved by one another but by everyone in the world as well; he presented the new addition to A Brighter World that he had secretly been working on the past few months. This new addition, A Cleaner World, would provide running water in the same towns A Brighter World would visit, working hand-in-hand as their partner, and he unveiled a filtering system to make sure there would be plenty of drinking water as well.
                 
    Alexis felt so fortunate for this new twist to the story. The magazine would be expecting the usual amount of excitement following a fund-raiser; the article would not have been the feature story without something major. This something major was going to help Alexis get a stipend every month, after being less than three days in. She couldn’t believe her luck. And, what’s more, during and after the dinner, she had met several women from many different countries who were impressive and independently successful or knew someone that was and could tell about them. Alexis knew she could follow up on some of these for more impressive feature articles and interviews. The travel section had the chance of being a real position, if she kept doing this right. This story had practically written itself, she thought happily.
                 
    When she finally felt truly secure about her success of the evening, with her list of future feature stories nearly a page long, she drank several glasses of celebratory wine and champagne and toasted to her good fortune. By ten o’clock, still early at in the night, she felt, she was having a great time wandering amongst groups of press and the few more