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CHAPTER ONE

ANDREAS SAMARAS POKED his head into the adjoining office to his own Having spent the day on a multinational conference call, he needed to check in with his PA

‘How is everything going?’

Debbie sighed ‘The world is going to hell in a handcart’

‘Quite’ His PA’s theatrical tendencies were infae if she weren’t the best business PA he’d ever had ‘Apart froards to the business,’ he hastened to add in case she started harping on about polar bears and Arctic ice ain

‘Nothing important’

‘Good How did the interviews go? Have you come up with a shortlist for me?’ Rochelle, his do reat deal of travel was not a good fit for does and increase her holidays but still she had said no He’d dragged his heels for weeks about finding a replacee her mind She hadn’t and finally he had accepted defeat

Debbie held up a stack of papers ‘I’ve whittled the candidates down to five’

Andreas stepped into the office Debbie had been tasked with doing the preliminary interviews She knew exactly what kind of person he was looking for to take on the role that basically entailed organising his domestic life It was a live-in role that would see the successful candidate travel wherever he went, ensuring his domestic life ran as smoothly as his business The person needed to be honest, loyal, unobtrusive and flexible, have i licence and no criminal record

He took the papers froraph of the candidate attached to the corner of their applications It was a requirement he insisted on Three candidates would make it to the shortlist and he liked to be familiar with their appearance before he met them for the final interviehich he would undertake personally

By Debbie’s computer was a stack of the applicants she’d already rejected The top one caught his eye There was so back…

‘Why have you rejected this one?’ he asked, picking up the forht back at him Dark hazel eyes he knew instinctively that he’d seen before

Debbie peered at it with a frown ‘Oh, her Caroline Dunwoody She intervieell but there was so about her I didn’t trust I don’t knohat it was A feeling, nothing more, but it made me check her references in more detail One of them checks out okay but I’m suspicious of the other one She says she worked as Head of Housekeeping at Hargate Manor for two years and has a letter in her file to that effect I spoke to the gentleman rote the reference, the Manor’s butler, and he verified everything’

‘Then what’s the problem?’