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Chapter One

Benson Security, London Office, Present Day

Rachel Ford-Talbot should never have allowed her father to hire her company There were plenty of other security experts in London who could have worked with hiet the better of her, just because he’d had one teeny, tiny heart attack, and now she was the one suffering If that wasn’t a lesson in why you shouldn’t help people, she didn’t knoas

“I don’t see why I have to get involved in the investigation,” she told Callum McKay, one of her business partners

As usual, the Scotsman was in a bad mood One that’d started the day he was retired frohanistan Even though he had state-of-the-art prosthetics now, he was still perrumpy—unless you were his wife or his children For them, he tried to act human

“Because,” he said through a jaw clenched so hard it was a wonder he could talk at all, “you’re familiar with your faet us close to the family meray Henleys and glared at her

Like that would have any impact Honestly Didn’t he know her?

“You have a professional spy leading the investigation” Rachel waved a hand in the general direction of Michael Carter, whom everyone called Harvard She had no idea why, since he’d studied at MIT Soh everyone she worked as still in middle school Shouldn’t nicknames be banned as soon as you hit your twenties? Wasn’t there a law ent can take care of this investigation on his own After all, it isn’t like he has to infiltrate Al-Qaeda; we’re talking about a phar ISIS, getting to the bottoe should be a walk in the park”

On the other side of the conference table, Harvard sat back in his chair, relaxed and se So Benson Security h he knew a secret, a sexy secret, that he illing to share with her if she’d just take a step toward hi to happen She didn’t do relationships And she definitely had no intention of entering into a casual arrangeue No matter how much he tempted her

“Rachel,” her father said with long suffering, “you knoell as anyone that Harvard can’t get close to the family without help”

“Then you help him You know the company and the family members on the board even better than I do”

The vein throbbing at his teht back many childhood memories Apparently, that particular vein hadn’t even been there before Rachel was born, and she was the only one out of her siblings to cause it to throb

“How exactly can I help hi-lost son?”

Rachel cocked her head as she considered the idea

“Don’t even think about it,” Callum snapped “Nobody would buy it”