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He let out another stress relieving breath “Sorry Selina Barnes Colton She’s vice president and director of public relations at Colton Oil Also, my father’s second ex-wife”

The way he said that piqued Hazel’s curiosity “Not well liked a the family?”

He grunted and looked at her “No My mother hates her None of my brothers and sisters care for her much, either We alere suspicious of her hold over him, why he keeps her on at Colton Oil”

Hazel saw hiood at her job She put on a good show on that news seght coame”

His deain, this time much more warmly “Yes, that is exactly hoould describe her And I do think she is good at her job, but I also think she has so on my father and that is why he had to keep her on as an employee She creates a lot of friction there—or so I’m told”

“But she’s good at her job,” Hazel summarized for him

“She is good at her job”

“And you and your brothers and sisters are stuck with her”

“We are stuck with her” He ard

As their uncontrollable chemistry heated up, he stretched his arm out behind her

After a few sied moments had passed, he said, “Selina hasn’t let it leak to the press that Ace was ousted from the board”

Hazel didn’t understand the significance of that “Why wouldn’t you want anyone to know?” Anyone paying attention to Payne’s shooting in the neould know Ace was a suspect

“The company bylaws say only a Colton by blood can be CEO”

That certainly held significance, but she thought of soht hold even more “He wasn’t ousted because he is a suspect in your father’s shooting He was ousted because he isn’t a Colton by blood?”

Callu all shrewd and sexy “No one knows Ace was let go because of the bylaws She’s trying to protect the company”