Nothing Personal
Chapter One
"Tell me, Faith. Why the hell did I wait until the last minute when I had a year
to get this done?"
She studied her sensible shoes and clasped her hands behind her back. "Actually,
Mr. McKay, I ... um, reminded you of that very fact several months ago."
"Yeah, yeah, I know." He sighed. "I thought I could find a loophole in
Grandfather's will that would get me out of needing to marry. After wasting
nearly a year, I still haven't found one." Ryan plopped down on the sofa nearby,
the Italian leather giving with a whoosh. He leaned his head back and closed his
eyes.
She wanted to offer him comfort-wanted to sit down, pull him into her arms and
reassure him. But, of course that would never happen. She wouldn't dare. They
didn't have that kind of relationship. They didn't have a relationship at all.
She was an employee and nothing more.
Instead, she stood next to the sofa and waited, wondering if there was something
else she could have said to Erica to convince the woman to go ahead with the
wedding. Certainly appealing to Erica's soft side would have done no good-she
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