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you.”
    He climbed back into the car without waiting for a response and she had the feeling she’d never hear from him again. Sarah made an important decision as the limousine drove away. Harris Davidson was a man who came along only once in a lifetime and she was willing to fight for him.

Four

    H arris leaned back in the seat as they pulled away from Sarah’s house. This business deal with the consortium was a straightforward takeover bid. And he struggled to keep it that way. He should be able to keep his attention there and if he was smart, he would get out of Orlando without seeing Sarah again.
    Harris’s first instinct was to return to the hotel room and keep to himself. Whenever that impulse struck he fought it. He didn’t want to end up like his dad, spending fifteen years in an apartment somewhere and never leaving it.
    He moved to the front of the limousine and lowered the partition. “You know any place to stop and get a drink?”
    “Sure,” Ray said.
    “Women troubles?” Ray asked after a few minutes had passed.
    “Nothing I can’t handle,” Harris said. And he believed it. He had a solid plan. Avoid Sarah until he left town. He could do that easily.
    “Sarah looks a little feisty,” Ray said.
    “Ray, have you ever heard of employer-employee etiquette?”
    “Nah, why am I breaching it?”
    Harris raised one eyebrow at him. “Yes. And I don’t appreciate it.”
    “Sorry, Mr. Davidson. I’m not a real formal guy.”
    “I’ve noticed.”
    “So, what about Sarah?” Ray asked.
    Harris realized Ray wasn’t going to stay in his role of driver. Harris started to put the partition up then stopped. Maybe this one time he could use an outside opinion. God, knew he didn’t think around Sarah. Just turned into one big hormone.
    “She has a way of shaking a man’s concentration.”
    “The best ones do,” Ray said.
    “You married?” Harris asked.
    “Nah…my line of work wasn’t conducive to it.”
    Harris watched the driver. There was something in his voice that hinted at a feeling Harris understood too well. Something he refused to acknowledge in himself except deep in the night when no one was around to witness it. Something he’d tried to run from. Something he knew was loneliness.
    “I’ve never had the inclination. There’s something damned foolish about promising someone you’ll spend your life together. Not even business deals last that long.”
    “I used to think like you do.”
    “What changed your mind?”
    “A broad.”
    Harris chuckled. “Woman troubles?”
    “ Madon’, you don’t know the half of it. You going to call Sarah.”
    “I’m going to do what I should have done in the beginning.”
    “What’s that?”
    “Concentrate on business and forget about her.”
    “She didn’t strike me as one of them shrews. Did she try to lecture you?”
    “No.”
    “Ditzy?”
    He thought about the Magic 8 ball she’d been playing with. Aside from that she seemed intelligent. Hell, he knew she was smart. Had seen it in her quick wit.
    “If anything she’s too smart.”
    Ray sighed and then pulled the limo to a stop on the shoulder. He pinched the bridge of his nose and then putting his arm along the back of the seat turned to him. “God knows I’m not an expert on relationships, but I’ll tell you one thing, man. There’s nothing like getting old and realizing you let the right one slip away.”
    Ray’s words made a certain kind of sense, but all Harris could see was the Davidson family legacy in relationships. Obsession. It was a fatal weakness in the Davidson men. Harris had channeled that part of himself into making money. And he was damned good at it. He couldn’t afford to have a woman like Sarah in his life.
    The cell phone rang and Ray answered it.
    He grunted a few times. Then said, “ Merda, I’m trying.”
    Sounded like a fight was brewing. Harris moved to the rear of the car to give Ray some privacy. The driver made a lot of sense. He’d been