The Billionaire's Demands (A Boardrooms and Billionaires Series Book) (Entangled Indulgence) Read Online Free

all they’ve worked for at risk. I’ve worked a long time to get where I am and I’m not willing to give it up.”
    “I’m not asking you to give anything up.”
    Temptation flared once more and she suddenly had a very real understanding of what Eve had faced in the garden. “And when it’s over? When we both go back to being acquaintances who get together at family functions. What then?”
    “Do you really think there can be any event we will ever attend with our mutual families that can be more awkward and uncomfortable than tonight?”
    Her lips twitched. “You’ve got a point.”
    The fingers that had woven such a sensual spell over her skin stopped their tender stroking and he extended his hand. “We keep this neat and clean, like a business contract. We determine the mutually agreeable parameters and satisfactory out clauses that either party can initiate at any time.”
    Once again, Camryn couldn’t quite shake the coldness that lay underneath her attitude. Was this really what her life had come to, negotiating her personal relationships as if she were putting a bid on a piece of real estate?
    She pulled her hand from beneath his and pushed open the taxi door. “I don’t negotiate.”
    Chapter Two
    “You left awfully quickly last night.” Keira’s cheeky smile greeted Camryn the following morning from where she was leaning in the doorway of the executive conference room. The early meeting Camryn had come in for ran exactly as she’d expected.
    Unfortunately, the meeting had come to an end and now she had to pay the piper.
    Camryn was still turning over the previous night’s event in her mind. She still regretted leaving Booth. Regretted not seeing where his tempting offer might go.
    A fling.
    The very idea had played through her mind as she lay restless and wide-awake in bed.
    Pros and cons, pluses and minuses, debits and credits. All neat and orderly, just like plain old Camryn McBride. Yes, they could explore what was between them, but the raging feelings that had filled her as she’d tossed and turned throughout the night had ensured that acting on those feelings would be anything but clean and simple.
    “Did you miss the tension in your apartment? I love you and I love your intention for the evening but I was counting the minutes until I could break free.”
    “Tension, schmension.” Keira waved a hand, clearly unconvinced by Camryn’s breezy, casual tone. “I’m talking about you and Booth.”
    “And here I thought your subtle interrogation technique was aimed at getting me to give you my recipe for that veggie dip.”
    “Cam—”
    “What?”
    “Come on. Talk to me.”
    Camryn fought back a sigh and walked to the coffee service on the room’s sideboard for a refill and a few moments to gather her thoughts. “Do you want any coffee?”
    “No. I want details.”
    “We shared a cab. He made sure I got home. It’s no big deal.”
    “But what about drinks? I thought—” Keira broke off. “I just assumed you stopped for drinks.”
    “Nope. He solicitously took me home. He is family, as you were so eager to prove with last night’s dinner party.”
    “I think I’d have been more successful performing an appendectomy on a random stranger than last night’s attempt at family bonding.”
    Camryn couldn’t hold back the giggle. “It was pretty bad.”
    “So you can understand why I’d like to live vicariously through my sister’s far more enticing evening.”
    “Sorry to disappoint.”
    “Nothing happened?”
    “Define nothing. He made a pass and I deflected it.”
    “Oh!” Keira’s eyes widened. “I knew he was interested.”
    “Then you and I have a different opinion of interested .” Camryn took a sip of her coffee and attempted to marshal her arguments behind a voice full of careful indifference. “I’m a challenge to him, nothing more. He’s shown his interest several times over the last few months. Apparently he thought he’d make his move last