From Boardroom to Bedroom

“Excuse me?”

“You heard me.”

“Damn it, Sophie. You’re getting in too deep there. You need to just come home and we’ll figure out something else. Traveling with Nigel Townshend to his home is a bad, bad idea.”

Sophie bit the inside of her cheek, trying to quickly come up with the right words to reply, but Kellan beat her to it.

“Oh, no. Don’t tell me you’re sleeping with your fake boss.”

“I’m not sleeping with him.” Not yet. “He asked me to be his date because his grandmother is always on his back about not settling down. He figured if I went, they would at least leave him alone for a few days and he could enjoy his sister’s celebration without getting hassled.”

“Uh-huh. And you’re telling me he’s not interested in you?”

Oh, he was more than interested. Her body still tingled from just how interested Nigel Townshend was. There was nothing about her feelings for Nigel that she’d be sharing with her well-meaning brothers.

I know what I’m doing and I’m a big girl. You worry about finding the scoop on our long lost sibling and I’ll work on

damn about Miranda right now,” Kellan growled. “You can’t get caught up in a love affair with Nigel. You’re vulnerable, Soph. You’re grieving and totally out of your element. Besides, Miranda will

even though she was worried herself. “And nobody is going to catch me. I barely recognize myself in the mirror with all this blond hair

blond did horrid things to her skin tone, but a dye job was

money—something that would justify getting the will thrown out. Sophie wasn’t sure how she could make this work to their advantage, but she had to try. No way was she giving

to work,” she told her brother. “Keep in touch and don’t make

disconnected the call and made her way back to

meeting to get to, a trip to prepare for and a

in a

Ten

at Roslyn, trying to figure out why she’d been so quiet and reserved on the way to the airport and since

was it the type of man she deserved. He wanted her to know she mattered, she was valued. Not someone he

did he try so hard to impress a woman? He actually cared what Roslyn thought of him. Oh, he’d always prided himself on

the desire and passion he’d witnessed. The combination continued to make