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Rolt's hand shifted to her elbow, keeping Alanna at his side as he paused at the woes, Mrs Blake?"

"They're on your desk Only one was urgent and it's on top," the woman answered in a crisp, professional tone

He turned away, drawing Alanna aardly along towards a second door that obviously led to his inner sanctum Over his shoulder, he tossed out an order to his secretary "Find Kurt and have hiht away"

There w

asn't an opportunity for the secretary to acknowledge his request as he guided Alanna through the door and closed it behind hirip lessened and she immediately slipped free of the dreaded contact

"Make yourself at hohtly as he moved farther into the room "It will be a few minutes before Kurt arrives"

His strides took hilanced around the office It was hardly a typical office The desk his secretary had referred to was not an accurate terht-backed chair and not an overstuffed leather chair sat behind it It was definitely not so that a person would relax in and contemplate his successes There were two or three other similar chairs situated near the table Dark oak shelves covered one wall and a portion of a second Books and papers abounded, but there were no cabinets

The rest of the room was furnished with an enorh table that followed its curving arc The sofa was covered in a knobby ated stripes of blue

The drapes, coveting the length of nearly one entire wall, were of the sameshaggy blue, plush and thick Charcoal sketches of black and white adorned the re walls

The decor was decidedly masculine and completely informal It was so at odds with the other office areas Alanna had passed that she was stunned It was not at all as she had iined, and her expression revealed this

"Is so the matter?" Rolt's amused voice inquired

He was standing beside the desk, or table, which seemed the es were in his hand His lazily veiled look was inscrutable

"You have to admit this is not your typical office," Alanna defended her astonishment "Whoever heard of an executive without a e of sarcas into her voice, an after-effect of his previous treatment

He laughed softly— tone than from the content of her rees on the table top

"I have no need for drawers and co space As for the rest of this—" Rolt scanned the large roo briefly on the over-sized sofa that would have dwarfed any average living roos can be held around the couch with the various papers and reports spread on the coffee table"