The Science Of Love: A Billionaire BWWM Romance Read Free Page A

student. His roommate was out for the
evening and he had the place to himself where no one would hear him
make a fool of himself, if he did.
    The
phone rang and he heard Jada say: “Hello?” David almost
hung the phone back up again. It was too good to be true. The phone
number was real and she would talk to him!
    He asked
her how her day had been and they chatted for a bit about the
college, their course work and the cost of tuition. They found they
had much in common when it came to a love of science. David had seen
the latest photographs of a space probe to Mars and she had as well.
They both chatted about the possibility of life on the red planet and
came to the conclusion it was very improbable. He loved science
fiction and she was familiar with the works of Octavia Butler. Jada
wanted to know if he had ever gone out dancing, one of her favorite
activities and the silence on his end let her know all she needed. So
she switched the conversation to the ballet and it turned out he had
an aunt who danced for the Cleveland ballet and had been to see her
many times. They talked longer than either of them expected to and
made plans to speak on the phone again in two more days. David told
her to have a good night and hung-up.
    David
stood looking at the phone for a good while after he had finished
talking to Jada. He couldn’t believe he had been able to hold a
conversation with a woman for more than two minutes. He turned and
looked at the clock: they had been on the phone for at least an hour!
He felt he had achieved something, but he wasn’t sure what.
    Jada put
the phone down as one of her roommates walked into the dorm room. She
was a tall woman from New Jersey named Tanisha. Her father was a
doctor in Salem, so she didn’t have any money troubles at all.
Daddy had made sure his little girl had joined the right sororities
and dated only the best athletes. She tended to give Jada advice on
how to be “noticed” by the right people on campus. Jada
appreciated her concern, but wasn’t interested in being noticed
by anyone. She had her studies, her new dance company and an eye on a
student teaching position with one of the better schools.
    “ So
who was that on the phone?” Tanisha asked Jada.
    “ Just
a guy,” she said, while pulling out a book on math education.
    “ Sounds
like your social life might be picking up,” Tanisha asked her.
“Anyone I might know?”
    “ White
guy.”
    “ You
just described half the men on this campus,” she said. “Is
he cute? Does he play on any of the teams?”
    “ No,”
she told her. “He’s a sophomore like me and majors in
computers.”
    “ Oh,”
said Tanisha. “Computer guys make a lot of money. Keep it in
mind.” Tanisha went on to her room.
    Jada
smiled and returned to her book.
    It was
the dawn of the internet age. Every college was being wired for high
speed cable and the colleges were trying to keep up with how the data
would be allowed to flow in and out of the campus. Everyone wanted to
be a computer sales executive or an internet marketing guru. For the
first time in history, it was very cool to be a nerd. There were
people who came from nothing who were being touted as financial
geniuses one day only to watch their net worth plummet the next.
Famous magazines would do photo spreads on cool internet companies
who wouldn’t exist in two years. Money was being made and blown
in the space of nanoseconds. Paradigms were changing.
    And a
whole lot of it was being driven by adult content on the internet. It
was the dirty little secret of the internet that the ultimate brown
paper bag had been discovered. Adult bookstores were being decimated
as lonely men no longer had to shuffle inside and pay absurd amounts
of money for their fix. The internet anonymous option was changing it
all. The man who could find a way to make it all pay would emerge as
the winner.
    But
David had no interest into delving into the seedy side of the
internet. Fortunes might be created in