Table For Two: Barrington Billionaire's Series: Book Two Read Online Free PDF Page B

you forgotten since you have Lena and Nicholas back in your life?” He had to admit, his brother had changed a lot over the past few months. He was happy things had turned around for him. That didn’t mean they were changing for the rest of them. “So you didn’t ask me here for small talk. What’s this all about?”
    “You know exactly, Dean. Poly-Shyn’s future or lack thereof,” Brice said in a tone he had used on him many times over the years. He leaned forward, resting his elbows on his desk. “Trent came by to see me yesterday after leaving your office. He is under the impression that Poly-Shyn is off the market. Why would that be? I thought I made it clear that the company needs to be sold, and the Henderson name be disassociated with it.”
    “You said the company needed a new owner. That is what you are going to get.”
    Brice glared at him. “What game are you playing, Dean? You don’t have the money to purchase the company, and you are far from qualified to run it.”
    Dean clenched his fist on his lap. Brice’s comments only acted as fuel to the fire already within him. Proof once again that it was time to show his brothers who he was, what he was capable of. They’d underestimated him way too long. When he was through, they never would again.
    “I am familiar with the asking price, and as far as I am concerned, the company is off the market and within the next few months will be mine.” He didn’t break eye contact with his brother.
    “With what money? I don’t believe you have five-sixths of the three and a half million dollars we are asking.”
    He would do what he needed to do to buyout his five siblings. He was not about to back down. Never have, never will. “Don’t worry about my financial situation. Just know that I plan on making Poly-Shyn mine. Nothing is going to stop me.”
    Brice leaned back in his chair. “That is what concerns me, Dean. How far are you willing to go? Who are you willing to crush to get what you want?”
    Anyone I have to. “Have the lawyers draw up the paperwork. I will be able to give you one-third down and the rest within ninety days.” Dean got up from his chair and headed for the door.
    Brice called out to him. “Where the hell are you getting this kind of money, Dean? You don’t even have a job. Has gambling been that good to you lately?”
    Some things hadn’t changed. Their expectations of who he was, did not match him at all. Yes, he gambled, but not in cards. He was a shark in the water and not afraid to swim with the other sharks. Brice could sit in his lab if he wanted to, but not Dean. He needed the excitement of the hunt, of the kill. His brother couldn’t understand that. But people like Asher Barrington and Trent Davis knew exactly what it felt like. What a fucking rush to win!
    Before he left the office, he said to his brother over his shoulder, “Everything is a gamble, Brice. You just never got in the game.” And it’s a game you don’t want to play with me.

Chapter Three

    D ean was trying to do as Tessa had asked and give Brittany-Lynn a chance to prove herself. She followed through on any task he asked of her. Answered the phone professionally and didn’t have an issue deflecting any calls he asked her to. It was possible she was capable of doing the job. But the truth was all he saw when he looked at her was a pretty young girl who was too innocent to be exposed to the type of people he associated himself with. And that could cause her a lot of pain that she wasn’t prepared for.
    In some ways, she reminded him of Zoey and his close childhood friend, Kenzi Barrington. She was tenderhearted but probably wouldn’t admit it. He remembered too clearly what effect that had on Kenzi. One that haunted her to this day. Although they never spoke about it, he knew it molded each of them to who they were today.
    Even thinking about it now boiled his blood. The day a person who he considered a friend told him what he had done to Kenzi had