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Copyright © 2012 Ann King
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
     
     
    To my heavenly Father, thank you for all
you have done for me.
     
     
     
    He needs a temporary wife…
     
    The most sought after bachelor, Carlos Kincade is young,
rich and devilishly handsome. He has everything he thought he could possibly
want until his grandfather’s will stipulates he must be married by his 30th
birthday to keep his inheritance. He’s suddenly in need of a wife who can
fulfill his every hot desire.
     
    She needs a job…
     
    Struggling psychology student Elsie Sherwood suddenly finds
herself in need of another job after a medical crisis in the family cost her
family home. Sexy Carlos Kincade offers her work for a month but there are
strings attached…and a diamond ring. She must fulfill his thirty-one needs to
play his wife until he fulfills his grandfather’s will—but is the seduction too
hot to handle?
     
     
    1.
     
    “You can’t be serious,” Carlos Kincade’s eyes narrowed as he
sat opposite Santos Duke of Duke, Ross & Blakes, lawyers for the Kincade
family. Santos had summoned Carlos and his six brothers for a reading of the
last will and testament of their late grandfather, John Smith Kincade II, the
founder of the world-renowned Kincade retail empire. Their inherited stock in
the company made them one of the wealthiest families in the world.
    “Yes, I am very serious, Mr. Kincade,” Duke’s eyes
were fixed on twenty-nine year old Carlos, the current CEO of Kincade
Corporation. “And to all of you, John, Jared, Marcus, Justin, Dane and Tristan,
your grandfather left this one condition in his will for a very good reason.”
    “So that we can all get hitched by our next birthday?”
    “Not quite, Jared.”
    “Then what?”
    “Well, basically,” Duke sighed as he took his spectacles off
his face and placed them on the table after reading the will, “When your
grandfather, John, lost both of his sons, your father and your uncle, he’d made
a few changes to his will to ensure the company’s legacy. Of course, your
father’s demise in that helicopter crash was a great tragedy but he spoke to us
about his concern over your Uncle Jeffrey’s suicide as the turning point.”
    Carlos sprung up to his feet and shoved his hands in his
pockets, trying to contain himself. “So this is what it’s all about. Uncle
Jeff, the womaniser and gambler who lost all his money so we have to pay?”
    “Well, not exactly, Carlos. Please sit down and relax.”
    “Relax? You just told us that we’re going to lose our
inheritance if we don’t fulfill some comical condition of our grandfather’s
will. How do you think this makes us feel?”
    “Yes, I can imagine it is hard to come to grasp with. But it
is all for a good reason. Your grandfather’s business was built on all the good
values that he believed in…trust, loyalty, family values. He just doesn’t want
to see you squander your fortune on fast women and fast cars. He feels that
having a family will give you more stability. In his days matchmaking was good
for the family. You can be paired up with…”
    “Enough, Duke! It’s one thing to insist that we marry by our
next birthday but to be told who to marry. That’s another thing.”
    “I agree with Carlos,” John Kincade III said as stood up.
“We all know that gramps had a wild sense of humor about life and maybe this is
his one last laugh from the grave but I say we find our own wives, if we
agree to this…condition.”
    Duke sighed heavily, his hand combing his white strands of
hair, what was left on his