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garage, Autumn glanced into the rear-view mirror and quickly f

eries Convertible, closed the door, and gave

olls instead of dreaming of driving fast cars. The day she'd bought it, she'd gone to the dealership planning to buy the gunmetal gray,

ructor had been so impressed with her instinctive handling of the

er 'live fast,

ce to Cayenne and realized that the caree

n, though so much so that Autocar

e interview with her potential client and then took a moment to admire the cool-blu

volumes about their owner and confirmed the little information she had been able to glean

though the other car didn't call as much attention to itself as the stretched version, it was spacious and luxurious

f those fiercely loyal British people she usually went to great lengths to av

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ncrossed her fingers, turned, and

mputer geek didn't get along; the

er a stiff bow on opening the front door

el and led the way into the building. "They are

eyes wander a

t and had discovered that the Upper Phillimore Gardens address was considered one of London

utumn ack

andrails gleamed just as brightly as they had done in the photograph, but it gave her the same dizzy, heady feeling as it had done when she'd viewed it on the

ler as he strode silently but purposefu

en announced as Autumn stepped i

couldn't see her standi

ff formality-if they hadn't been locked in d

cret' billionaire. The last detail was given because she ne

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l Gates and Steve Jobs-the only two computer billionaire

e been more wron

hrob with the style of David Gandy and was staring at

you, Em

eet with the easy grace of a leopard going into full stretch. It slid warml

tumn realized with resentment the man easily to

is Autumn Blake," Jar

the urge to put her hands behind her back and out of re

mine." The words w

grip, and she felt an unfamiliar

ldn't have lasted more than a second or two, but if she didn't know better, she

Jared stiffe

ed to be arcing between her and the billionaire. He pulled out the chair next to the one he'd occupied whe

tumn replacing Noel for this assignment?" Jared asked, loo

judgment implicitly, Jared. And now, I suggest you lea

tarily before he schooled his features into

tting to his feet and breaking the moment's awk

one was amused, as though the

ought as she got to her feet to s

with a brief, tight hug. "Rico returns from Dubai on T

e cool speculation in the billionaire's eyes

r in check. If Jared was attempting to make the billionaire doubt her ab