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Chapter 1

“Mr Steele, your two o’clock appointment has arrived”

Morgan Steele’s pulse immediately kicked up a notch with his secretary’s announcement He inhaled deeply and deliberately cleared hisexcept the woman as about to walk into his office Helena Spears

“Giveher in”

“Yes, sir”

After clicking off the line he stood and threw the papers he’d been reading into his briefcase before snapping it shut and inwardly telling hi Helena to his office had been the first hurdle, and he was deterh to know that if at first you don’t succeed you try again, and today he was a man with a more defined plan

Putting his briefcase aside he found hi up another notch as he reo—when he had first seen her as she walked into that charity ball wearing a very sexy fuchsia-colored dress There had been so about her entrance that had momentarily taken his breath away, left hiazed into the warmth of her cinnamon-brown eyes, he had felt it It had happened just the way he’d known it would once he found her—the perfect wo out for all these years

The only thing that hadn’t happened as he’d assumed it would was her acceptance Lena, as she was known to her fas quite his way She’d tried to explain to him, in a nice way and more than once, that she wasn’t interested in a man-woman relationship of any kind She liked her life just the way it was and had no intentions of wasting her tione further on to add, was she interested in a ful one, either She had been there, done that, and she’d learned a valuable lesson and had no intentions of doing a repeat

All that ell and good but she wasn’t dealing with any regular ant,Once he saw so he wanted and ot it

And the bottom line was that he wanted Lena

He had wasted enough ti today he intended to use a different approach He glanced toward the door again when he heard the sound of the knob turning The moment it opened and his “perfect” woman walked in he couldn’t help but release a breath He felt the sizzle as heat shi a periwinkle-color business suit and she looked good in it

“Lena, please coaze floated over the rest of her with an analytical eye She had just the right aly attractive medium brown face, which placed emphasis on the honey brown curls that flowed around her shoulders, giving her the appearance of a Queen Latifah look-alike

She was five feet ten, just the right height for his six-three stature Her body was stacked, well endowed in all the right places, full breasts, wide child-bearing hips, voluptuous thighs and the s he’d ever seen on a woman He’d once overheard a conversation she’d had with his sister-in-law Kylie, who happened to be her best friend, about what she thought was a weight problem As far as he was concerned, she didn’t have one When he looked at her, what he saas a full-figured, thirty-one-year-old attractive and desirable wo inside hi The woman was temptation at its finest; however, when it came to her he was prodded to look beyond te a lot more lucrative and hile Little did she know but he intended to open up a whole neorld for the both of them

“Thank you, Morgan,” she said, closing the door behind her, and breaking into his thoughts “I’m here for our two o’clock appointment”

Fros she intended to be all business, and that was okay for now He would give her this tiet his She would find out soon enough that she had just walked into a “Steele cage” and there was no way out He had failed at plan A, but he had just put plan B into full motion

Lena pressed her lips fir against his desk Morgan Steele

She thought the saht she’d first race this planet, which pro she needed in her life was a an She’d learned her lesson a few years ago that when it came to “pretty boys” and “fine as a dime” men, she had to watch her step