Chapter 40

What manner of sick joke was the universe playing on him to bring into his life the one woman he could never have? Brian wasn’t the typical playboy billionaire, if anything he was a serial monogamist. He’d had only a couple of relationships and they had always been long-term. He’d had his moments of casual sex and one or two one-night stands, but they were few and far between. He didn’t get off by sticking his dick in as many women as he could. No, his desires ran deeper than that. He wanted to find that one woman that he could truly connect with. Like his father had connected with his mother. His parents had been in love, right up until the end. That’s what he wanted. And that’s where he could see himself heading with Cassie. Except she couldn’t see him as anything more than a poor substitute for his cock-sucking stepbrother. Fuck. “Get it to-fucking-gether,” he growled at his reflection. “Stop being a pansy-ass pussy bitch.” God, he wanted to punch something - preferably Nathan - but