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Brenda Jackson
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“In two weeks. I’m contacting my travel agent
tomorrow to set everything into motion. I’m looking
at the first week in April. Will that work for you?”
Whether it did or not, he intended to make it
work. A week spent on an island with her was worth
shifting anything around that needed to be changed.
“Yes, it will work.”
When they stepped onto the elevator she said,
“Sorry I didn’t get to meet your parents.”
He nodded. He was sorry, as well. They would
like her. “They were meeting friends but I thought
that perhaps they would return early. I was wrong.
However, considering the circumstances of our
business arrangement, it’s inevitable that you’ll
eventually meet them.”
He had to continue to think of what they would
be doing as a business arrangement and nothing
more. He glanced over and caught her staring at
him. Her head was tilted in a way that gave the
impression she was trying to figure something out.
Most likely it was him. Although she had been his
asset manager for a couple of years she’d never
really seen the personal side of him. Things had
always been kept on a strictly business level.
“Will you tell your parents everything?”
“No. They have purely romantic minds and won’t
understand how we can do such a thing without
being in love, so the less they know the better.”
He sighed knowing in a few moments the ele-