When Caleb Wilde hires Cassidy Branch to be his new Assistant Manager, he cannot deny the scorching attraction he feels toward her in spite of their ten-year age difference, and although his gut warns him that she is not the type of woman to indulge in a casual affair, he is helpless to resist the lure of the savage desire that she stirs within him.
Cassidy Branch is at once drawn to her new boss, captivated by his dark good looks and his raw sex appeal, and, despite her decision to maintain a strictly professional relationship with him, she finds herself instantly under Caleb’s spell, her resolve wavering beneath his relentless pursuit of her and the fiery passion that he awakens within her.
Scarred by the bitter hurts of his past, Caleb is unwilling to travel that road again and he denies what his heart is trying to tell him. Jaded by the ugly truth of her past, Cassidy is terrified of being used by another man and refuses to become anyone’s plaything. Can these two wounded souls find the path that leads to true love, or are there simply too many obstacles lying between Cassidy and the happily-ever-after that she hopes to find in Caleb’s arms?
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He wanted to call her and apologize to her for over-stepping his boundaries, wanted to beg her for another chance to prove that he was in fact the man he had professed himself to be. But the hands on the clock were already pointing toward one, and his conscience would not allow him to wake her at that hour. However, the apology dried up on his tongue as he watched her sail into The Wilde Side almost forty minutes late the following afternoon, the very picture of carefree gaiety.
He had been going out of his mind calling her phone, and swearing aloud each time he got her voicemail, his gut tied into knots of fear and anxiety as he worried that something might have happened to her. He had stood at the door as he had every day for the week, waiting to meet her when she arrived. He had beaten a path between his office and the front door, checking to see if she was coming. He had debated with himself about driving over to her apartment to check on her, and had talked himself out of calling his brother and asking whether Kelly could get the police to drive over and check on her, although just barely.
And she possessed the sheer audacity to offer him a half-hearted shrug as she dropped her bag in the filing cabinet and tell him that she had ‘lost track of time’ while she was studying in the library?
With Tony?