Bound to You--A Hot Billionaire Workplace Romance by JC Harroway

Author:JC Harroway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-11-09T14:44:25+00:00

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It’s so early that the outer offices where the assistants and associates sit in open-plan cubicles are deserted. My reflection bounces from the many windows and glass partitions turned mirror-like by the still-dark sky outside. I look like a woman with winning on her mind—careful make-up and red lips, tousled hair styled into glossy waves and bright eyes. My breath catches with illicit excitement for my mission.

When I woke this morning, alone in Hudson’s expansive and comfortable bed, urgency gripped me until I vibrated with a sense of panic. We have two more days to outdo each other in our sexy little game of seduction. Two more nights before we fly to London and meet up with Sterling. Forty-eight hours to indulge this fling, which has completely taken me by surprise.

Hudson’s complexities are forcing me to examine my own drivers.

Before I left his bed this morning I logged onto Blackhearts’s website and made a large anonymous donation. Then I spent a frustrating half-hour trawling the website for more clues about the man I can’t push from my mind, even for five minutes.

My throat aches anew for young Hudson. For all the children out there who believe that no one cares. It’s hard for me to comprehend—most of my life I’ve felt as if I’ve had multiple caretakers. My parents and my older siblings. It was a blessing and, for a teenaged Monroe, at times felt like a curse. But it shaped me, allowed me to discover who I was in safety.

Hudson had no one.

Instead of growing bitter and angry, turning to drugs or crime as a coping mechanism, he’s devoted his adult life to financial security and helping others succeed. I know him better than ever now. Relationships mean risk. He’s protecting himself from further abandonment.

But the tortured and caring and romantic Hudson—he could make me lose sight of everything I’ve always wanted.

Shoving away my confused emotions, I roll my shoulders back and head for his office. My seduction plan helps to keep my wildly budding feelings in perspective. This affair began with a competition—that’s where I need to stay focussed.

Outside his door I drag in a breath. I hear his fingers clicking away at his keyboard. He must have been here for hours, perhaps half the night. Did I chase him out of his home by staying over? He’s not used to having his space invaded. Now I know the depth of the demons chasing him, it’s easy to understand why he pushes himself as he does professionally. Why he spends so many hours here at his office. Why Bold is perhaps the only marker of success he can trust and control. I don’t blame him.

Powerlessness sticks my feet to the carpet. Helping him overcome his past to see that he’s more than just an outstanding businessman seems as colossal as the skyscraper we’re in.

Except I do have power. I feel it every time we’re intimate. And if that’s the only way I can reach him, the

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