The Billionaire's Courageous Lover (Bold, Alaskan Men Book 3) (18 page)

So what if he’d done it on a much larger scale?  As a capital investor, he’d made enough money to last him several lifetimes.  He did it for the intellectual challenge now, enjoying the adventure that business gave him.  His next step was finding the woman he could share that with.  And this woman, sitting forlornly in front of him, was that woman.  Since she’d walked into the bar, no other woman had tempted him.  He’d even flown down to Victoria and Seattle, trying to find a woman who could get the beautiful Chloe out of his mind since she was engaged.  Unfortunately, no woman had interested him after meeting Chloe. 

After his last trip, he’d come up with a plan.  Get rid of Gavin the Ass and move in on Chloe, take care of her the way she deserved to be treated. 

Step one had been to get rid of the jerk.  Step two, make Chloe fall in love with him.  Step three, marry her and have lots of babies with the woman, treat her like the precious, amazing woman that she was and never let her regret losing Gavin the Ass and his abusive, insecure ways. 

Her announcement that she needed to have an affair…that wasn’t in any of his plans.  Oh, he’d love to pull her into his arms and make love to her.  Yes, that would be ideal.  But he didn’t want the short term.  He wanted long term.  And if his body exploded from the painful lust that was surging through him, well, he’d deal with that. 

Right now, he couldn’t help leaning forward on the bar and looking down into her pretty, blue eyes.  “Care to elaborate?” he asked.  He had to remind himself that he wasn’t supposed to know that Gavin the Ass had left on his manly expedition.  He wasn’t supposed to know that Chloe’s worthless fiancée had abandoned her, left her alone without a house or car. 

Chloe took another sip, but then carefully set the glass down on the bar, her hand shaking too much since the man who had haunted her dreams, who had starred in so many of her latest novel’s sex scenes, was way too close. 

It should have been Gavin who had entered her mind every time she’d wanted to write one of those sex scenes.  It should have been her now-ex-fiancé.  But they’d been pulling apart for a long time. 

Had they ever really been a couple? 

Chloe wasn’t completely sure any longer. 

And it didn’t matter a whole lot now.  Gavin had left her, saying that he needed some space, that he was a man’s man and she was pulling him down, making him look bad in front of the other residents.  He’d actually said that!  What a disgusting man! 

Taking another sip of her rootbeer, she considered her options now that Gavin had dumped her. 

“I’m going to choose a guy and have a crazy, torrid affair with him.”