Seduce My Father's Rival (completed)

my bag over my shoulder,

ck down

arp, and the authority in his command was

n consciously. In fact, I could hear myself arguing with my body a

was controlling by remote. I couldn't not turn ar

tely sit down, at least. With my heart hammering i

ght have given me a thread of satisfaction if I didn't sense the current of fury under

care

someone as dauntless as I was? I'd ne

d from me to the chair, an unspoken o

nraged as I was at his gloating victory, the small gestur

said after a beat. "But let me say again

hensible, no matter how hard I tried to stare into him. I did notice he was even more attractive than I'd first thought, despit

ret agent-cool and collected but constantly scheming. Always five steps ahead. Able to intercept anyone that got in the way

hat just mad

inspection, I had to ask

justed his cuff, though it seemed entirely unneeding of adjustment. A show of

arded. Especially in t

to work

gue along my lower lip. "I don't suppose it'

uvenile attempt to discover if I find you attractive is beneath you." He abandoned the pretense of

ed asshole. Ar

lp that he w

ng my strings, but there was no fucking way I was asking him what he so obviou

his marriages, and I was the kind of match society found ideal. A typical blonde bombshell with good breeding and lineage, I made a perfect trophy wif

why

wer was

ack to him. "It's be

rded me with his first real smile, revealing two crater-like dimples

achieve by marrying me. My father would insist on a prenup ensuring my spouse would never touch Werner Media, and if he didn't h

st me or my company, which is rather smart on his part. But I am what you'd call an ambitious man. I want to enter the

I were to guess seeing how he seems to spend more time on the golf course these

"There's no way he'd appo

urse not. But in a few years' time, pass the title on to the husband of

how much my fath

ted in her, but I assure you, there's not much a man like me wouldn't do fo

practically hear my father sayin

scheme, not the least of which being that my father d

sn't accepting the offer. It was appallin

ot to gain in this deal, but what would I get out