Seduce My Father's Rival (completed)

ned in your father's name. You have one degree, in an art field. Your business barely runs in the black, a business that is neither innovative nor necessary. The lack of customers knock

your current prospects for the future. Bringing home a husband of my caliber would change everything in their eyes, wouldn't it? Even though I come with a competing business, I would imagine

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anyway. Heaven knew, I'd deserved most of the insults that had been hurled in my direction. They always slid off my back, never tou

s tactic was, his assessment came only from a place of raw truth. These were truths that faced me every day in the mirror, and yet I found them the hardest to look at

her's voice echoing with our earlier conversation in my

his time I said it out

o the side, a barely per

shoulder. "I'm leaving now, Mr. Fas

ink. "Without giv

he wa

figure out my answer is no,"

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won

I was midway across the Fontainebleau foyer when he calle

d not to give him the sat

ing more. "My answer is yes

under my breath. It was c

yer. I kept going until I was two blocks away, where I slipped into a coffee shop and sank down at a table. My heart didn't

r. I was still the woman I was when I'd walked in to his stupid meeting, and I'd

I'd gone in there expecting a different offer, but I'd

ike I'd walked out w

H

I called

d out my phone and called his cell. It was Tuesday, and as Edward had accurat

The endearment didn't have much commitment behind it. It wa

Some more enthusiastically than others, but that was to be expected, wasn't it? His business-his empire-ha

ould hear the distinct cal

the next hole. Is everything all right? You

phone on my shoulder with my chin so I could open up the wrapper

nterest in Werner Media and it was unlike me to ask about people associated

r." With my father mid-game, I knew his attention was limited. I didn't want

t one. A real devil. Ruthles

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game so long, but I had a habit of zeroing in on the dirty laundry in a person's background. "What d

trust that man as far as I cou

associates he talked about and every politician. "Like

t doubt it

Dad. Real

ic that he's done or gotten away with?" I needed