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CHAPTER ONE

“IT’S OFFICIALLY TIME to panic” Leah Holt finished reading her sister’s text e and looked up at her father

The expression on his face could only be described as shock, and Leah really couldn’t bla was planned The decorations were in place, the cake was made The room was present and ready

And the bride was gone

“Why is it time to panic?” her father, Joseph Holt, asked

She took a slow breath She found she didn’t want to tell her father Didn’t want to expose Rachel to censure Because as upsetting as the text was, Leah knew Rachel well enough to know she wouldn’t have done this without a very co”

“Who is not co?”

Leah looked up and her heart stopped Ajax Kouros had chosen that precise moment to walk into the room, already dressed in a dark tuxedo, perfectly fitted to his od more than a man

Seeing hi hi his ear off Her sister away at school, her father busy ork, hertea with friends

But Ajax had always been there to listen Her sounding board The one person she’d felt had understood her

A lot of tiirl anyh to think that a man like Ajax could be interested in her, or what she had to say And he wasn’t that boy, tanned fro shirtless in the sun

He was a billionaire now One of the world’s most successful businessmen

And today was the day he wascontrol of Holt Industries, along with a hefty piece of her own business, since so many of her shares were owned by her father’s corporation

At least, it was supposed to be the day he wascontrol of Holt

But Rachel was gone Gone and not co back, if her text was an indication And it should be, since it said she was gone and not co back

It was so out of character for her bright, beautiful sister The eternal hostess and darling of the orgeous and graceful, a walking photo-op