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8 Irresistible Forces
Memorial. Her thoughts were on something else
entirely. She was inwardly counting her blessings.
During this past year she had achieved a number
of her goals. First by venturing out and starting up
her own wealth and asset management firm, which
she named Assets of Steele, and then moving from
New York to the nation’s capital and purchasing a
beautiful condo with a view of the Potomac River
from her bedroom window. That wasn’t at all bad
for a twenty-five-year-old woman who’d made the
decision after college not to return to her hometown
of Charlotte, North Carolina, and work for her
family’s multimillion-dollar manufacturing company.
Instead she had set her sights on New York
after accepting a position with one of the major
banks as a wealth and asset manager.
Now she could turn her attention to the final stage
of her plan that she needed in place before making
her most sought-after dream a reality. And that was
the man she had chosen to father her child without
the benefit of marriage. She was even open to joint
custody of the child, if he wanted to go that route.
A permanent hookup with someone was not
what she wanted, not even a teeny-tiny bit. Nor was
she looking for a long-term lover, either. A shortterm
one could handle the task intended quite
nicely. The last thing she wanted was a long-term
romantic commitment of any kind.