old, scuffed Timberland boots, the heavy footwear a stark contrast to the heels she wore during the week. After shoulde
he blueprints with the physical structure. The air was thick with the smell of dust and we
tra money she couldn't afford to turn down, not after maxing out her credit card at the sanitarium. She had told
he mud, pulled up to the edge of the site. A group of men in crisp suits a
from a distance, she recognized the confident
as he listened intently to an engineer. He looked comp
as nothing. She had told him to forget her. He had. And now she was standing in the mud of his construction site, h
w her. Clutching her roll of blueprints to her che
teel pipe. It rolled. Her ankle twisted viole
ed to the ground. The blueprints scattered around her in t
und. His eyes scanned the area, and when they land
instant. He moved before he could think, his body responding to the
into a run, crossing the muddy, treacherous ground i
ol of his trousers immediately soaking up the
ght. His hands, surprisingly gentle, mov
p breath of pain. "I'm fine," she l
ehind her back. He lifted her as if she weighed nothing. The sudden, shocking intimacy of being
that she didn't need his help. But the words died in her throat. Because for a momen
s to the nearest private clinic,
nkle tightly in a bandage and gave her a prescription for painkillers, wh
her into his arms and deposited
" she began, bu
river an addr
home," she protest
old and final. "You can't manage four flig
wasn't anger. It wasn't pity. It was something else-something she could
luxury high-rise. Isaac carried her from the car to a p
Floor-to-ceiling windows revealed a panoramic, god-like view of the Man
on a massive, buttery-s
f his crisp white shirt, revealing the strong column of his throat. Then he disappeared
h sending a shiver up her spine. As he carefully placed the ice pack on her swollen ankle, his
ent. But in that moment, the chasm between his world and hers felt a li
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