Surrendering to the Italian's Command by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence [Lawrence, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2016-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

AFTER DRIVING HIS car from the helipad where he’d left it that morning, Danilo changed his mind and took a detour when he heard the distant sounds of activity coming from the direction of the indoor arena.

Change your mind? mocked the voice in his head. Wasn’t this always where you were going since you started imagining Tess in a pair of riding breeches?

She’d caught up with him just before he’d driven off to the helipad that morning; her hair had still been wet from the shower and even though she had yelled her request from twenty feet away he had imagined he could smell the scent of her shampoo.

Twenty feet was pretty much the distance she had kept from him since the previous week’s trip to London. It helped but not enough. Logic didn’t enter into it so he had stopped trying to work out why, despite the fact her position in the household put her off limits. He wanted her on such a fundamental level.

Pushing away the image of her face as he walked, he slung his discarded jacket over his shoulder. The day was turning out to be another warm one. He glanced at the slim silver-banded watch on his wrist as he headed towards the building.

It was early, but freed from the relentless round of meetings for the first time in what felt like weeks he could, he had reasoned, as easily work at home this afternoon, which he would have explained to anyone who asked, not that they had. He was the boss—or, as his father would have said, the buck stopped with him.

‘When that day comes, Danilo, for you to step into my shoes—’ at the time he had wanted to be a fighter pilot or a rock star ‘—you’ll understand that leadership can be lonely. You won’t always know the answers, but—’

‘You do.’

‘Sometimes, to be a successful leader, acting as if you know what you’re doing is as important as actually knowing, but follow your instincts, Danilo, and you won’t go far wrong.’

At the time he’d been unable to get his head around the idea of his father not being omnipotent and actually winging it. As for instincts, he hadn’t been very sure he had any, at least not the sort his father had been talking about.

He succeeded in pushing away the lingering echo of his father’s voice but the sadness remained. That time his father had spoken of had come a lot sooner than either of them had expected, and Danilo hadn’t stepped into his shoes but been propelled by tragic events. Others within the financial empire his father had presided over had worried about how the financial world would react to this transition, which had in the end been seamless.

At the time, Danilo’s focus had been elsewhere. If anything the time he had spent learning his new role had actually felt more like relaxation, a form of escapism, something he could actually control while the thing that really mattered to him, his sister, he had no control over.

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