The Man Means Business

"Man your battle stations! Incoming! Incoming!"

Jodie Cameron grinned at the innovative way the receptionist notified her that the man she worked for had finally arrived at the office on this gloomy winter day in Chicago.

"Thanks, Betty." Jodie cleared her computer screen, brushed a wisp of hair that had escaped the tidy knot at the back of her neck away from her face and waited for him.

Jodie knew something was up with Dean Logan. In the five years she'd worked for him Dean had never come to work this late in the morning. He generally was already there when she arrived.

Earlier she'd checked his calendar to see if he was scheduled to go out of town, but he had nothing written down. She had wondered if he'd decided not to come in since it was Friday and he planned to go on a week's vacation starting on Sunday. But that didn't seem likely. He would have called to let her know.

This would be the first vacation he'd taken since she'd been his secretary, and she looked forward to having the time to clean out files, set up subfiles and work uninterrupted.

At least Betty had warned her that he wasn't in the ... read full excerpt from: The Man Means Business ebook