A love so pretty

beneath the back of her hand. She lay still for a minute, half-shuttered eyelids, disoriented. It wasn't until the heav

th

e really slept with a man like him? The man who appeared to radiate money and power, whose commanding

eiling light mocking the opulence she had experienced at the Malone estate. She glimpsed herself in the mirror on the

confided to the girl in the

dewalk, and a food cart vendor hollered the day's special. The world was again with all its

ept her hair back behind her. Taking one final deep breath, she stepped out the door to head back

apply. She'd known the name, naturally, but Anthony Malone was a m

s she went by the reception desk of marble, by elevators lining the sides with golden edging, and into the employees' lounge to fling her co

It was Marianne, one of the rece

swered with a smoot

t? You look

ust didn't s

sed on the screen. Calendar updates, meeting reminders, ca

Anthony came down? What would he do? Would he own up to what happened? Or would

ere exhauste

om HR, her stiletto heels clacking against the

d. "Is somet

foll

m. Inside, a serious-looking man in a su

al affairs," Sandra said curtly

ees nearly

ha

the purchase of catering equipment," said Kramer matter-of-factly

unding. "I've never had access to that car

receipt then?" He slid a pri

ment. Her name was scraw

handwriting!"

ou'll remain in this room

Mal

versee the mat

s coming. Not just as the man f

air. Bella clasped her trembling han

or opened and A

hugged him like it had been tailored by angels, his dark eyes trackin

e barked, voice

pushed back his chair, arms crossed, expres

from the pow

o that," sh

kno

eyes fla

ued. "Bella Reyes was nowhere near the card terminal. The char

urned an unheal

uties, Miss Reyes," Antho

wly. Her legs f

managed, her voic

e, he instructed her, "Be

hony stood in the doorway, arms cr

ave left like th

. "You mean..

awoke and yo

she murmured, her eyes not

I do care. And I want you

heart wa

he ball," he said. "I saw you the

not say any

to see you accused of something so rid

ake you an offer. A proposal,

t him, her h

rt of pr

calculated smile that sent shi

know tomorro

nt away, leaving Bella panting,