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PROLOGUE

SHE was perfect, Justin thought from the first moment Ms Rachel Witherspoon walked in to be interviewed

Perfectly plain and pri, dressed in a very unsexy black suit, mousy brown hair severely scraped back and anchored in a twist No make-up and no perfume, he realised with relief, the absolute opposite of the blonde bo her way around his office for the lastto be his personal assistant

No, that was probably unfair The girl had been efficient enough The coht away after his previous PA quit on short notice didn’t have dummies on their books

But she’d made it clear within a few days that her services could easily extend beyond being just his PA She’d used every opportunity—and every weapon in her considerable physical arsenal—to get this e across He’d been bombarded with provocative clothes, provocative smiles and provocative comments till he couldn’t bear another second When she’d coirl, Justin had cracked

He didn’t sack her as such He didn’t have to She was just a temp He si that he’d hired a per Monday

A lie, of course But a necessary one for his sanity

Not that he was sexually tempted by her Oh, no It was just that every time she came on to hiot up to with that boss of hers What she was still getting up to every single day, jet-setting around the world and being his personal assistant in every which way there was

Justin’s jaw clenched down hard at the thought It had been eighteenon, then added the shattering news that she was leaving him to become her boss’s mistress

Eighteen months! Yet the pain was still there The pain of her betrayal and deception, plus the sharpest s she’d said to his!

Most ht have soothed their battered egos by going out and bedding every fele woman since Mandy walked out He si physically intimate with another female made him shudder

Of course, none of his ues knew that You didn’t confess such things to other men They would never understand, or syh She kne hurt he’d been by Mandy’s deception and desertion She kept telling him that soet about Mandy