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world.’
    ‘Science and beautiful gardens? What else?’
    She stared him down. ‘Classical music. Rowing. Old movies.
History.’
    He blew out a breath. One part of him sighed at the image of a
life filled with those things. Quiet, solitary, gentle things. But the station
manager in him baulked. ‘Getting our listeners excited about rowing and
classical music is going to be a hard sell.’ Along with the rest.
    She sat up straighter. ‘Not my problem.’
    The first real emotion she’d shown him. Shame it was offence.
‘It kind of is, Georgia. You have a signed contract to honour. We need to find a
way forward in this.’
    Her astute eyes pinned him. ‘As long as it also works for your
listeners?’
    ‘There must be things that they’ll enjoy that you will,
too.’
    She stared at him. ‘I won’t do it if it’s portrayed as me
trying to find a man. Or to improve myself enough to find one.’
    ‘Just the Year of Georgia, then. The Valentine’s Girl getting
back on her feet. You really cared for Daniel, our listeners will buy that.’
God... Could he hear himself? He sounded just like Rod. Always an angle. Always
a carrot. ‘We’ll assign someone from the station to—’
    ‘No. I don’t want one of them with me.’
    ‘One of who?’
    ‘One of the people who were there for the proposal. I don’t
want them coming with me.’
    She didn’t trust them. And he understood why. Though what she
didn’t understand was that the whole sodding mess was his fault. Not theirs.
    ‘OK, I’ll hire someone esp—’
    ‘No strangers, either.’ Her face pinched in several places.
    ‘Georgia, if I can’t use one of my team and I can’t hire
someone, who am I going to get to do it?’
    ‘You do it. I know you.’
    His laugh was as loud as it was immediate. ‘Do you know what I
get paid an hour?’
    ‘Too much to actually get paid by the hour, I’m sure. But that
is my condition.’ She did her best to look adamant. Even that was moderated by a
faintly apologetic sheen to her steady gaze. ‘Take it or leave it.’
    She had no idea how to negotiate. The innocence was insanely
refreshing. ‘You’ve already signed the contract,’ he pointed out gently.
    But even as the words came out of his mouth his brain ticked
over, furiously. His assistant would jump at the chance for some extra
responsibility, so he could offload some lower-end tasks to Casey. And if this
was what it would take to get Georgia fully on board...
    But he held his assent back, in case it had more power a few
moments later.
    His entire life was about holding things back until they had
the most advantage.
    ‘My days are packed out from dawn until dusk.’
    Georgia shrugged. ‘I have a job, too, so they’re going to be
evening and weekend things anyway, I imagine.’
    It was hard not to admire her for sticking to her guns. Not too
many people made a habit of saying no to him these days. He had them all too
scared.
    ‘I have things I like to do on my weekends,’ he argued. But not
very convincingly. Hard-to-get was all part of the game.
    One dark, well-shaped eyebrow lifted. ‘How badly do you want
these ratings?’
    A stain of colour came to her cheeks. Either she was shocked at
her own audacity or she was enjoying giving him some stick. He used the time she
thought he was thinking about her offer to study her features instead. She had a
right-hand-side dimple that totally belied the determination of those set lips,
and she had a chin built for protesting.
    That was probably long enough. He hissed as if he hadn’t made
his decision sixty seconds ago. ‘Fine. I’ll do it.’
    Her triumph was so brief. It only took her a heartbeat to
realise that his commitment had fully sealed hers. And her next twelve
months.
    ‘One more condition,’ she hurried as a pair of drink menus
arrived. It was his turn to lift a brow. ‘No one mentions Dan. No one. You will
leave him completely alone.’
    Loyalty blazed from her chocolate eyes.
    Somewhere down deep