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CHAPTER ONE

IN SPITE OF the driving rain that lashed her face, stinging her eyes and al her way to the offices where she had an appoint Froht it was as if her feet were taking her auto the route she needed, with no need to look where she was going

But then of course she had been this way so o perhaps, but often enough to know her ithout thinking Of course then she had been heading in this direction in such very different circumstances In those days she would have arrived in a taxi, or perhaps a chauffeur-driven car, with a unifore of the kerb and opening the door for her Then, the offices towards which she was heading had belonged to her father as the head of Carteret Incorporated Now they were the UK headquarters of the e for the way he had been treated

And who had succeeded far more than he had ever dreamed

Burning tearsof the rain as Sadie forced her feet towards the huge plate glass doors thather so that she almost stumbled across the threshold Bitter acid swirled in her stonised the way that the words Konstantos Corporation were now etched in big gold letters on the glass where once she had been able to see her father’s name—her family name—displayed so clearly

Would she ever be able to corave for over six h to take everything he possessed frorandfather had built up fro into the multimillion corporation it noas?

‘No!’ Drawing on all the deter her sleek dark hair flying, her green eyes dark with resolve, as she stepped into the wide, h-heeled shoes made a clipped, decisive sound as she made her way across to the pale wood reception desk