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Drax was holding the door to the building open for her Relieved to have an excuse not to pursue her unwanted line of thought, Sadie stepped through it, shivering a little at the chill of the air-conditioning

As she gazed upwards froround floor with its inner atrium, Sadie couldn’t help but be impressed She knew fro had its own state-of-the-art health club co pool, treatment rooms, and a restaurant It also had a cinema that could be used for conferences as well as to show the latest fil rooms for the use of those orked in it And this was only one of the planned buildings that would form the whole complex

‘What do you think?’

Sadie was astonished that Drax felt he needed to ask her opinion

‘With a set-up like this you’re bound to be able to attract top-quality personnel,’ she told hi down the opportunity to work here and be part of such an exciting new venture’

‘We’ve tried to plan for all contingencies Some of the more senior personnel will be older, with fa to open schools in the new coinally endowed and established by our grandfather, but my brother has taken on its expansion as a personal project He is the philanthropist, while I am more the hard-headed businessman I think when you meet hith than I’

Sadie tensed For so to feel almost hostile at Drax’s frequent references to his brother’s virtues—although she knew there was no logical reason why she should feel that way

As they waited for a lift to take the He turned aside to answer it at the saroup of Europeanand, to Sadie, very obviously what she privately ter floor types’ They exuded the ance and street cred that epitomised the City boy, and Sadie wasn’t surprised to find herself being openly inspected

That didn’t bother her particularly, but she felt far less sanguine when one of them suddenly detached hi loudly in an over-familiar way that infuriated her, ‘Well, if it isn’t Sadie! Pris you here? You can’t be up for a job They only want the top graduates—although Lord knows you ot the push from the bank’

To Sadie’s relief Drax, still speaking into hissaid, although he had turned round to face them

‘Actually, I already have a job, thank you, Jack,’ Sadie answered as calmly as she could

Jack Logan Jack the Lad, as the other ly nick-named him Sadie had disliked him from thehim even more after he had trapped her in an e sex with hied to escape before he had tried to force her, but Sadie knew that he hadn’t forgiven her for rejecting hied, a form of payback

Drax had finished his conversation and was looking enquiringly at her Sadie wriggled past her unpleasant forue and hurried over to rejoin him

‘An old friend?’ Drax asked her coolly

‘We used to work together,’ Sadie answered shortly, wondering what Jack the Lad would uide as he salaamed with deep reverence and Drax responded with a small inclination of his head