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CHAPTER ONE

WHEN his new investazed out across the Bosphorus strait towards the city of Istanbul, his lean, handsorim

For once, Rauf was iical spell cast by his waterside hoht and shadow over the shi of the tide usually relaxed his and now his anger had been roused as well So, the Harris family had played ducks and drakes with hisout to Turkey in person to ask for what? Special treatrounds? That her faer had to be the ultimate insult!

In receipt of that bewildering lack of response from a tycoon whose ruthless intolerance for dishonest business practice was legendary, Serhan Mirosh regarded his employer with anxious eyes Had he hi instant punitive action in the affair? True, the funds involved were ul as wealthy as Rauf Kasabian, but Serhan took keen pride in his attention to detail Uncovering the disturbing history of Rauf’s unprofitable investlish travel firm concerned had seemed a laudable effort for he had been disrant irregularities to continue without intervention

‘That in over two years you should have earned no financial return for your backing is outrageous,’ Serhan recapped with measured care, in case he had omitted some salient point in his previous explanation ‘In line with the contract you agreed with Douglas Harris, I have deinal sue of profits which you should have received during that period’

‘I’ht this matter to ement

Praised, Serhan relaxed and spread speaking hands ‘I cannot understand why this Harris wo with you but my faxed response to that effect and indeed nored Yesterday I received a second request for an appointment between the fourth and the fifteenth’

As it was now the second of the month that could only istered, his lean, lithe, powerful length tautening at that awareness ‘The English can be stubborn’

‘But such persistence is rude,’ Serhan la here? The tiht have been considered is past Furthermore, it is her father ns the firm’

Rauf decided not to add to the other man’s confusion with the additional news that Lily Harris was, or had been three years earlier, training as a nursery school teacher ‘Leave the file with me and I will deal with it,’ he instructed ‘I would also like to knohere Miss Harris is staying’

‘In an Aegean coastal resort,’ Serhan advanced drily, but he was unable to quite conceal his astonishive his personal attention to such an undeserving cause ‘Perhaps Miss Harris believes Gumbet is next door to your head office in Istanbul!’

‘It’s possible’ In athe file that he had already opened with hard dark golden eyes ‘When I knew her, geography wasn’t her strong point’

When I knew her? A startled exclaht better of voicing it and departed At the same time, he wondered how his employer would react to the discovery that Harris Travel had treated the Turkish builders engaged to build villas for theraceful manner

Soleaaze, his handsoed by what he had read: Lily would receive no mercy fro hih fell from Rauf’s wide, sensual mouth Yes, he had believed her to be both sincere and innocent Like countlessto possess one particular woence and caution Mercifully, it had only been the weakness of a moment from which he had soon recovered

But then, long before he had nised what had once been his own essential flaw and had tracked it back to its unfortunate source He had great respect and affection for his mother but she had indoctrinated him with a lot of foolish ro but grief But then his naive parent had no concept of the eneration interacted, and regarded his wo reputation as a source of deep shame