Free BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE: “Sign It Now” Series Book 1 (Billionaire Bad Boy Alpha Male Romance) (Contemporary New Adult Romance Short Stories) by Elena Davinsky Page B

anything to put Troy off. He was a handsome, sweet guy who had started chatting her up while she was refilling her glass of punch. The party had been going great until now. Every time she saw Brad’s face she wanted to claw his eyes out and she had thought she was going to be able to resist the impulse when she had first entered the party and saw him glancing her way. She just knew that she had to keep him away from her. But now he was standing right in front of her and she was having trouble getting her vocal chords to work properly.
    “Would you excuse us?” Brad said as he stepped between Troy and Sophia, turning his back to Troy effectively cutting him out of the conversation. Troy let out a frustrated sigh as he walked off. Brad did not even look behind him to smirk at what he had just done to Troy.
    “What the hell?” Sophia asked. “We were having a conversation.”
    “I could tell it wasn’t important. You are welcome,” Brad replied.
    “Welcome for what?”
    “Well, I just saved you from having to listen to hours of boring conversation with that drip.”
    “That is not for you to decide. Besides, if he is such a drip then why is he here?”
    “I’ll let you in on a little secret; The Crew doesn’t always follow through with everybody they choose. Sometimes they have a few impulse buys and then they kick the person to the curb. I know it sounds cold, but it is the price of doing business. In this world there are no sure things.”
    Brad took a few swigs of his beer as he looked over the crowd of people. Many at the party were getting tipsy and having a lot of fun dancing and being stupid. Sophia had to hide her laughter, but she could see how some of these people might not have been the kind of people that The Crew wanted to sink their money into.
    “Well, thanks for the heads up,” Sophia said as she started to walk away.
    “You going to leave me hanging here?” Brad said.
    Sophia stopped and glared at him. “I need to find some fun people to talk to,” she said as she turned away. She felt that she probably should not have insulted a member of the team, but since it was Brad she did not feel the least bit bad about it. He was an ass and they all knew it. Brad even knew it, but something told her that he was just too lost in himself to really care. The man was so self-absorbed that it was sickening.
    But still she could not help turning her head to look at him one last time as she walked away. He was so damn fine looking. God, if he was not such a damn asshole.
     
    Sophia walked into her apartment ready to kick off her shoes and hit the sack. The party had been fun, but it had felt like work too. But she had finally found the opportunity to speak with a few members of The Crew and get to know them better. She tried to steer the conversation away from work and tried to ask them about their real lives, but she was starting to feel that these people did not really have much of a real life. They ate, breathed, and slept the business and making money. It was almost a sickness with them and she felt bad for envying them at times.
    But she supposed if you loved what you did enough then it was understandable that you wanted to spend as much time doing it as you could. She was one of the hardest working people she knew, but she was not above letting her hair down to have a little bit of fun.
    She had tried to track down Troy after Brad had given him the brush off, but Troy seemed to be avoiding her altogether the rest of the evening. She felt sad about that because she knew that if she had hung with Troy longer then he would have asked her out. It had been a while before she had found a guy she liked well enough to consider dating. The thought suddenly occurred to her that she might be a bit like the stuffy members of The Crew at times where she put her work above other things that might be more fun. The only difference was that she justified all of this by saying that she did not want to be with