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“Well, it is weird. How many people insist someone who rear ends them teaches them to ride a horse?”
    “ I’m a billionaire. I’m supposed to be eccentric. Besides, it was time I bought a new pick-up. It’s not like I’m upset I got rear ended or anything.”
    Amber looked at Sarah. “He wanted to buy me a new truck too. I told him my insurance would fix my old one. Weird. Just plain weird.” The baffled look on Amber’s face, reflected how Sarah had felt for the past week.
    Justin grinned at Cody. “Seems like she’s figured you out in just a week.”
    Cody folded his arms over his chest and glared at his friend. “Yeah? Well, how did you meet your date then?”
    Sarah shook her head. “Oh we’re not dating! I’m his executive assistant.”
    Cody looked at Justin. “What happened to the hyper-organized Candice?”
    “ Maternity leave. She’s taking a year off after the baby’s born, so I needed someone.”
    “ I thought she was waiting another month?”
    Justin shrugged. “She said she wanted to take off early.”
    The waitress came to the table then and they placed their orders. Sarah just got a bowl of enchilada soup, since she wasn’t very hungry.
    While they waited for their meal, Justin pulled out some charts and started to talk to Cody in a low voice. Sarah shrugged at Amber. “So, tell me about your horses. I assume you have more than one?”
    “ A whole stable full. We had more before my father died, but we’re building the ranch back up to where it used to be.” She paused. “We’re also doing some horse breeding and training. As well as the cattle ranching.”
    “ Who’s we?”
    “ Well, mainly me and our foreman. He’s been running the ranch since I was a little girl. My brother will finish college in May, and then he’ll be home to help out.”
    Sarah nodded. “Where’s your ranch?”
    “ Corral City.”
    “ Never heard of it.”
    “ It’s near Decatur?” Decatur wasn’t a large city, but most people in the area had at least heard of it.
    Sarah nodded. “Okay, I kind of know where Decatur is. Northwest of Fort Worth, right?”
    “ Yeah. You’ll have to come see the ranch sometime.”
    “ I’d like that.” Sarah didn’t have a lot of female friends she saw often. Her high school and college friends had all moved on and were living their lives. She felt isolated a lot, because she didn’t have a car.
    Justin shoved his papers into the briefcase he’d brought with him and settled back against the back of the booth. “Y’all done?” Amber asked.
    Cody nodded, draping his arm around Amber’s shoulders. “Yeah. He likes me to look at his charts and see if I think they’re feasible before we knock Steven over the head with them.”
    Amber made a face. “Is Steven the other guy who helped start your company?”
    “ Steven’s the programmer,” Justin told her. “Without Steven, Cody would be an idea man with no one to make his ideas work, and I’d be just some guy looking for a good product to sell.”
    “ Yup. We owe it all to Steven.”
    Sarah was looking forward to seeing the dynamic between the three men at the business meeting. Would they be all business, or would they act like best buddies hanging out and having fun?
    By the time they were done eating, Sarah realized she’d really enjoyed the evening. She would have thought she’d be intimidated by a meal with two billionaires, but she wasn’t at all. She thought she and Amber could be good friends if they were around each other more.
    Cody turned to Amber after they’d finished eating. “You’re going on that business trip with me, right?”
    Amber looked at him with a perplexed look on her face. “Why would I need to go on a business trip with you?”
    “ What if I decide to ride a horse on the beach? I wouldn’t want to fall off.” He sighed heavily. “Then I’d get hurt and you’d spend the rest of your life feeling guilty that you didn’t come along, and it would be all your fault I