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cut out of the will. Another thought occurred to her, “What did you mean
when you said my father ran the company into the ground?”
    “It’s almost bankrupt. Your parents, and
your brother, have lavish spending habits. While your father has good business
sense he also has a taste for the most extreme and the best of everything. When
the company ran into some financial difficulties instead of curbing the
personal spending he bought a new yacht and laid off three hundred employees,
he shut down an entire division.”
    “How do you know that?”
    “My family was among those laid off. The
official statement said that the division was being closed due to its not being
as profitable as it could be and the fact that labor was cheaper overseas. Two
days after that the newspaper’s society section showed a picture of your
parents christening the new yacht.”
    “I’m sorry your parents lost their jobs.”
    The sincerity in her voice did nothing to
quell the ever-present sting of their deaths. His father had killed himself in
utter despair after the mortgage company had finally repossessed their home and
his mother had turned to dancing in a tiny strip club on the seediest section
of town just to try to keep them in a place to live. One night she had decided
to go outside of the club for a private party, one of the other girls she had
hung out with had gone as well. They had both been killed. The police report
said that the two women had gotten caught in a dope deal gone wrong. His mother
had fought the attackers; she had been beaten severely but had managed to fight
them enough to run. She had almost made it out of the house too, but had been
caught in the blind alley and the five bullets in her back had ended her life.
The cops had found his photograph in her wallet alongside her driver’s license.
The men who killed her had taken her money.
    Looking at Meghan he wondered if revenge
for what his parents had suffered was the only reason he was attracted to her
but it only took one look at her green eyes and curling red hair to know that
was not the case. She was not just beautiful; she was everything he had wanted.
He did not believe they had met by chance, he did not believe in chance, what
he believed in was making one’s own Fate. And she was just that, his destined
lover.
    “We are not going to my apartment?”
    “No, you don’t need to be alone tonight.”
    What he didn’t say was that he wanted her
close to him - that he wanted her to sleep next to him. Her slim shoulders
drooped with exhaustion and there were dark circles under her eyes from stress.
That made him even angrier at her family but he pushed that anger aside.
    “It’s too bad the past is never as simple
as you think,” Meghan said.
    That startled Danny so much that all he
could do was agree.
     
    ~ * ~ * ~
     
    The sun slipped its lemony yellow fingers
through the narrow opening between the expensive drapes and Meghan rolled over,
watching the pearly gray gloom of the room lift and turn rosy then golden. She
loved the peace of early mornings, loved the feeling of being alone in a waking
world.
    Danny was still asleep and she rolled
over, her eyes examining the high planes of his cheekbones, the sharp line of
his jaw. In sleep his mouth lost the sensual sneer it typically wore and he
looked more innocent but just as handsome.
    His eyes opened and she tried to withdraw
but his hand gripped her wrist, “In the kitchen you will find a book, the cover
reads Household Manual. I had it made a few years back and so far nobody has
been here to use it. I have a cook and a maid. They are both aware of my
predilections and know what it is I have been looking for.
    “That book is to be your guide from here
on out. You can start by making my coffee. As today is Sunday it is a good day
to move all of your belongings over here.”
    “You just paid my rent,” Meghan stuttered.
    “I was not sure if I wanted to keep you
then.” Danny said casually. “Besides,