The Wrong Proposal

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Being a friend's plus one at a wedding where nobody knows me has benefits. Like having nothing to lose by making the scowling handsome stranger in the corner smile.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There must be something in the wine to make me this flirty.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I playfully flutter my lashes and chat as though we have known each other for years.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Suddenly his beautiful eyes darken and in that moment it dawns on me.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No. No. No.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not him!</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We have met before-and it didn't end well.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have to get out of here before Franklin Hendricks figures out who I am.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Escape before he remembers my role in the public disaster that humiliated him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I have everything to lose with my professional reputation at stake.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only I'm stranded with roads blocked by the snowstorms blowing in a week before Christmas. And it's impossible to hide away the entire weekend.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Resisting his charm is more difficult than I thought when his eyes tell me it's GAME ON.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How big of a mistake could it be if I play with the jilted billionaire...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's only one night right?</span></p><p><br></p>