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Alex wasn’t sure how o to the wedding He would be proud to stand at Sergio’s side as his best man

‘Just book a flight that will get you to Lake Co No, make that two days before I want to take you into Milan and have you fitted with a decent dinner suit This e, but that’s no excuse not to look our very best We io proud on the day We are, after all, his best men’

A lu him speechless for a moment Fortunately, Jeremy wasn’t similarly afflicted

‘Have to go now, Alex Claudia has just coet to book your flight, and for pity’s sake sound thrilled when Sergio calls you Ciao,’ he said with a wry laugh ‘When in Ro up

Alex groaned at the thought of having to sound thrilled when Sergio contacted hi kind to hito happen

Such thinking reinforced Alex’s own decision never to get tangled up in the whole ‘love and h death or divorce—was never going to be on his agenda No ould he risk ending up like his father, or becoer That hy he always dated girls who never had a hope of ensnaring his heart Girls who just wanted to have fun

Alex quickly realised there would be no ti the next teeks His nose would be pressed to the grindstone every single day At least it would be when he finally got to the da out a search party!

Harriet didn’tWhen she’d arrived at the office shortly before eight, she’d been dreading having to tell him her news, nehich she should have told him when he’d first come back from London But at the time her emotions had been too raw She would have wept in front of him She knew she would And she didn’t want to do that Alex would have been embarrassed And so would she

So she’d let the days tick aithout confessing that her engage as each day passed She’d rather hoped her boss , but he hadn’t Alex didn’t notice personal details like that He was a man with tunnel vision most of the time When at work, he worked

It did irk Harriet slightly that no one else at Ark Properties had noticed, either But that was her fault Whilst she was friendly with everyone orked there, she didn’t socialise with the rest of the staff She never ith theirlfriends she had drinks with, E the main one Then of course, up till recently, she’d had Dwayne

Naturally, things would be different from now on, with no Dwayne to complain if she didn’t hurry home after work It worried Harriet, however, that her suddenly single status would change the wonderful working relationship she’d always had with Alex He was a great boss She liked him a lot and felt sure that he liked her back Yet when she’d walked into his office to be interviewed for the job last year, Harriet had gained the immediate impression that she was a non-starter Alex had looked her up and doith sceptical eyes With hindsight, ht make a play for hiible bachelors

Whatever; as soon as he’d discovered she was engaged, his attitude had changed Though he’d still put her through thethe interview She must have pleased him with her answers, because he’d hired her on the spot

Of course, her résumé had been second to none—provided you overlooked her poor pass in her Higher School Certificate Which Alex had, once she’d explained that her dad—as a h school years and that the faht that she’d taken not one but three part-ti as a result A little white lie, that But not one she felt guilty about The boss of Ark Properties didn’t need to know the ins and outs of her past life Alex had seemed suitably impressed by her work ethic, plus her career in real estate He didn’t care that she’d never actually been a PA before He wanted someone who could take over the office whenever he hich up till recently had been quite often He had business ties in England which she wasn’t privy to; Alex could be secretive at times