Accidentally Yours by Susan Mallery

Author:Susan Mallery
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2008-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

NATHAN OPENED his condo door a little after six in the morning and picked up the paper. For the first time in his career, he’d made it to the front page. Below the fold, but still right there, with a picture and a headline designed to make him look like an ass.

“Billionaire Developer Paying Single Mom and Sick Kid to Win.”

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE DAMAGE CONTROL meeting started with one of the associates at Jason’s firm discussing the viability of a lawsuit. Nathan ignored the conversation. Whether or not he sued didn’t matter. It was a long-term solution to a short-term problem. With the commission meeting in less than a month, he needed a way to make good in public immediately.

He noticed that everyone attending ignored the irony of the situation—that the newspaper article had printed only the truth. He had given the money on the condition that Kerri and her son appear on his behalf. He’d broken no laws, violated no codes. But he’d come out looking like the coldhearted bastard he was—something the public couldn’t forgive. A successful man who wasn’t humble. They would take him down if they could. His job was to make sure they didn’t.

“This is going to play out in the press,” Jason said. “We need to give them something else to report. The flip side. We can start with a series of interviews. Kerri Sullivan is—”

“Not involved in this,” Nathan said firmly.

“She has to be. She’s the catalyst for all this. If we send her out—”

“We’re not. She has enough going on. Leave her alone.”

His friend’s frustration was obvious and Nathan knew why. Without Kerri, there wasn’t much of a story to tell. But he wouldn’t ask her to speak on his behalf. Not now.

If pressed, he would explain that it was because Cody had gone into a wheelchair, but he knew it was more than that. It was because of what she’d said. Of how she’d blamed him for what had happened to her son.

He knew her accusations were irrational. There was no bargaining with fate or God or any other source of power. Cody had survived because his body had been better equipped to deal with the disease. That was it. But Kerri didn’t get that, and he knew there was no way in hell he could change her mind.

“I don’t want her involved,” he told Jason.

The door to the conference room burst open and Kerri walked inside. “Sorry I’m late. There was traffic.”

“Too late,” Jason murmured.

Nathan glared at her. “You called her?”

“Yesterday. I assumed you’d want her here.”

“I didn’t.”

Kerri glanced between them. “Don’t all welcome me at once. It goes to my head and then I’m impossible to deal with for the whole rest of the day.”

Nathan pushed to his feet. “You should be at work.”

“It’s Monday. My day off. Why aren’t you more excited to see me? I can fix this.”

He remembered when she’d first dared to confront him and he’d vowed to crush her like the insignificant bug she was.

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