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.

worry about finding the scoop

affair with Nigel. You’re vulnerable, Soph. You’re grieving and totally out of your element. Besides, Miranda will know

worried herself. “And nobody is going to catch me. I barely recognize myself in the mirror with all this blond hair and these

horrid things to her skin tone, but a dye job was worth the sacrifice if

she could make this work to their advantage, but she had

brother. “Keep in touch and don’t

the call and made her way back to Green Room Media. She

to prepare for and a stepmother

a

Ten

the runway. He glanced at Roslyn, trying to

refused. That wasn’t the type of man he was, nor was it the type of man she

what Roslyn thought of him. Oh, he’d always prided himself on caring for his dates, his relationships, but

pull, the desire and passion he’d witnessed. The combination continued to make him wonder if there was something else smoldering beneath the surface...and he couldn’t