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first. “Maybe because he really is attracted to you.”
    Keira turned over her sisters’ words long after they’d left to return to their offices. Mayson’s words, in particular, were more than apt. Nathan Cooper was a powerful man.
    A powerful man who was no doubt very used to getting his way in all things.
    With a sudden curiosity, she pulled up a search engine and typed in a few key words. An endless string of pages came up, all neatly catalogued around the life and times of West Harrison. She refined the query to consolidate a search for both West and Nathan and was still surprised to see more than one hundred pages of results.
    When she clicked on the first one that seemed of interest, a gossip column popped up. This particular story dealt with a fund-raiser the previous spring for a children’s charity. Both father and son were attendees, and the columnist seemed almost gleeful that the two men hadn’t spoken.
    Keira read through a few more stories, the underlying theme strangely consistent. Father and son kept up a cool facade of politeness with each other in public, but no one who was really looking missed the barely veiled disdain running between them. No wonder Nathan thought emotions could be separated as easily as flipping a switch. He clearly wasn’t raised with any. At least not by his father.
    Keira’s thoughts drifted to the evening before, when she’d questioned him on his interest in pursuing a media company. He’d hidden it well and if she hadn’t been looking for it, she’d likely have missed it. But Nathan wasn’t unaffected by the mention of West Harrison. Those vivid blue eyes had dulled as their discussion turned to his father and his entire demeanor had stiffened, like a dog circling for battle.
    Some scars are hard to hide no matter how hard we try , she mused as she clicked on one more article of interest. As she scrolled through the article that covered pretty much the same ground as the others, her phone buzzed.
    “Yes, Stacy.”
    “The lobby just rang. A Mister Nathan Cooper would like to see you.”
    The urge to send him away or pretend she wasn’t there was strong, but Keira knew it would only stave off the inevitable. “Thanks, Stacy. Send him up.”
    Keira clicked out of the article and turned off the search program. If she needed any ammunition to wage war on Nathan, understanding his relationship with his father was surely at the heart of the matter.
    The real question was how to use that to her advantage.
    …
    Nathan rode the sleek elevator to the upper echelons of the McBride empire. He hadn’t been surprised when the security guard in the lobby directed him to the top floor of the building. Where else would the princess of the empire live?
    He’d debated coming in the first place, trying to think through the best way to keep her off guard, but in the end he’d decided the slight olive branch of coming into her territory was quickly outweighed by the surprise nature of the attack. He knew legal would get involved soon, per her promise the night before as much as from the fact that legal always got involved, but for the next few days it was still just the two of them.
    Negotiating. For her company, of course. But it was negotiation for her bed where his interests were far more…urgent.
    As the numbers continued to rise on the elevator’s digital panel, his anticipation rose as well. What was it about this woman? And why had she gripped him with this sudden madness that had her filling his thoughts and crowding out everything else?
    Images of her naked and in his arms had kept him awake most of the night, warring with the heated remembrance of kissing her lush lips. Plundering her mouth and the rich, sweet wine taste of her. His body tightened at the mere thought of her, and he shifted his feet as the tension that had gripped him all night assailed him again. He needed to focus on the task at hand. Whatever fire had been stoked between them the evening before needed