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This story has a history as long and colorful as the country it’s set in

Clair was a heroine I lived with for at least a decade before I properly wrote her story I knew she was pretending to be aher to hide his cri hero after another At one point he was a CIA agent, another tiland playboy For a while she was an accountant, and in one version she asked the hero for an affair, rather than being acquired as a mistress as she is by Aleksy

Aleksy, with his scar and very dark past, is the perfect contrast to the flawless and aloof appearance that disguises Clair’s surprisingly sensitive personality What I loveAleksy back to the ives her the promise of a family that she truly deserves

I hope you find their story as satisfying to read as it was for me to finally write it

Dani

CHAPTER ONE

Iup with you

THE NOTE STRUCK a pang of wistfulness in Clair Daniels’s chest She wondered if anyone would ever write so so rohs and lows Abby had been riding for months, all under the influence of that elusive e independent was more secure and less hurtful, she reh in the last teeks, after losing a h

Still, she had to hide envy as she handed the note back to Abby and said with a co is this weekend?”

Abby, the firm’s receptionist, nodded with exciteant bouquet Clair had ad to everyone—” She waved at the ladies gathered with theircoffee “I texted hiether forev…” She trailed off as it struck her who she was talking to

The horseshoe of woazes

Clair’s throat closed over a helpless I wasn’t waking up with him She’d never slept with anyone but couldn’t say so Her confidentiality clause with Victor Van Eych had made such confessions impossible

Still, she knew everyone had thought her relationship to the boss went deeper than ossip had eaten her up, but she’d let it happen out of kindness for a e Other people’s opinions of her shouldn’t matter, she’d told herself Victor was nice to her He had encouraged her to start the foundation she’d always drea a white lie prevail in return had seemed harmless