Bewitched: In Too Deep\Married to the Boss by Lori Foster

Author:Lori Foster [Foster, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780373774951
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Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

DANA WAS typing up correspondence for the day, getting ahead of herself before R.J. showed up for work in case he needed to talk. She wanted to be there for him in any way she could.

The last few days she’d gladly listened as he’d ranted and railed against the world. The press was having a field day with him, splashing the story across every newspaper in the state. He wasn’t sleeping well, she knew, and her heart ached for him. That he needed her now both troubled and appeased her. She hated seeing R.J. in such an untenable situation, knowing how much he valued control. She’d gladly have done anything in her power to make things right for him.

But for the first time that she could recall, he needed her as more than a competent secretary, and her heart swelled with the satisfaction of being the one he turned to.

She’d loved him forever, it seemed.

Not that he knew of her love. Dana had far too much pride to expose her feelings like that. On the rare occasions when R.J. got involved with a woman, if fleeting affairs could be termed as involved, he’d gravitated to the type of sophisticated, sexy femininity that Dana could never achieve. The women he was seen with were elegant and beautiful and confident.

They were everything Dana was not.

R.J. had always treated her with full respect for her abilities in the office, and he was generous to a fault, showing his appreciation for her dedication with raises and hefty holiday bonuses. He gave to her, but never in the way of a personal gift.

Not once had he looked at her as a man looks at a woman he desires. And she knew he never would.

As president of Maitland Maternity and a member of Texas’s wealthiest families, R.J. was considered a prime catch. He had money, status and connections—all qualities that drew women in droves.

But Dana knew that even if he’d been dirt poor and unknown in the community, women would have flocked to his side. At thirty-nine, R. J. Maitland was a handsome man in the prime of his life.

He stood easily six feet two inches tall, all of him hard and strong and capable. He had broad shoulders and a lean physique that looked equally gorgeous in a formal tux or well-worn jeans. His hands were large and sure, and he possessed an innate virility that overrode his sophistication, making him seem almost primitive on occasion—just often enough to keep any woman around him slightly breathless and filled with anticipation.

Dana understood that feeling firsthand, because she’d been close to him for many years now as his personal secretary.

She closed her eyes and sighed, picturing him in her mind. R.J.’s straight sandy hair and probing hazel eyes set him apart from the other Maitlands, who tended toward darker hair and blue eyes.

Dana’s love for R.J. meant she’d never even been tempted by another man, though there had been a few times when she’d tried. Dating

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