Teased: Resisting the Billionaire Volume One

"Little bro, I'm telling you I think I may have found the one."

"Sure. You mean the next one."

"No way. I mean The One."

"So what's different about this girl?"

"You know I flew to Columbus on Drummond Airlines yesterday, right?"

"Yeah. Why, I can't imagine, not when we have three luxury private jets at our disposal. I call that masochism at best, stupidity at worst."

"It's a good airline, Sebastian. You should step outside your comfort zone sometime and try it."

"There's stepping outside your comfort zone and then there's stepping into pure hell."

"Well, if that was hell then, why did I meet an angel there?"

His brother guffawed on other end of the line.

"What are you doing? Trying to get into bed with me? Even if I was one of your girlfriends, do you think I'd fall for a corny line like that?"

"I'm serious Sebastian, you and I have been looking in all the wrong places. These socialites and debutantes are all just about appearances, money, what you have, and what your family does. I don't know why I didn't think of it before. There's a whole world out there of normal, ordinary people who don't live life from one gala dinner to the next."

"Okay, so go on then, tell me. You met some cute girl at the Burger King in the airport and she was so down to earth, you took her home with you?"

"It was a flight attendant."

"Okay, I'll admit I've done my fair share of those."

"With Drummond Airlines."

There was a silence on the other end of the line.

"Please tell me you're not serious big bro. Please, because you know if you did anything with her and it gets back to the old man, then you are in big trouble."

"I'm serious."

"Oh Jesus Christ, Alex. Come on. You're a big boy. What the hell are you doing? The world is full of gorgeous women and you have to pick the one, single class of female that is forbidden to you by our extremely wealthy, extremely powerful, and extremely irrational father?"

"That last one is the key: irrational."

"No way. It's the first two that count and if he finds out you did anything, I mean if you even thought about it in your dreams, then you can kiss your share of $35 billion goodbye."

Alex took a deep breath.

"I know the risks. You don't have to tell me."

"I'm not so sure. It seems like that's exactly what you need for me to do, because it looks like you just don't get it."

"I get it, I get it. Now stop lecturing me."