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a year now, and they had a good working relationship. He appreciated James’s humour and camaraderie as much as he did his attention to detail and his ability to smooth things out with even the most difficult clients.
    “Did you have a good weekend?” James asked. “I hope you didn’t spend the whole time working. I always worry when you email me at midnight on a Saturday.”
    Alec’s lips quirked. “It was okay, thanks. And no, I didn’t spend the whole time working. I do have a life, you know.” A vision of Ed with his lips wrapped around Alec’s cock popped unbidden into his head. He snapped the mental doors closed on it promptly. “My mother was in town, so I met her for lunch on Saturday.”
    After asking Ed to leave, Alec had breakfasted alone in his flat. He’d felt guilty lying to Ed to make him leave, but he wasn’t enough of a bastard to throw Ed out without at least making some excuse. From the look on Ed’s face, Alec didn’t think he’d fooled him. But really, it served him right for falling asleep in a stranger’s bed. Alec could have been an axe murderer or something. He found Ed’s level of trust in him astonishing.
    Damn it . Now he was thinking about Ed again, having spent most of the weekend trying to forget him. This was why he never let anyone stay the night after picking them up. Having someone sleep in his bed had unsettled Alec; his tightly guarded privacy had been invaded, and he felt uncomfortable.
    “How about you?” Alec turned the question back to James. “Good weekend?”
    “Not bad, thanks. It was Emily’s birthday on Saturday, so we got a babysitter for Charlotte and I took Em out to dinner. Then I had a duty visit to the parents for Sunday lunch. Seems to have been the weekend for it.”
    Alec chuckled and turned his attention back to the papers spread out on his desk. He sipped at his coffee as he thought about his mother. “Duty” just about summed it up. Alec had always been the dutiful son.
    He’d never had an easy relationship with either of his parents, but his mother was the lesser of two evils. His parents lived in the Berkshire countryside, near Newbury, and his mother visited London often for shopping and socialising. Alec was always expected to make time in his schedule to meet her when she was in town.
    The rustle of paper indicated that James was settling down to work too, and they got on with things in silence as the office gradually filled up around them. The rest of the team greeted them as they arrived one by one and started getting themselves organised for the day. Once the new additions joined them a little later, there would be a meeting to make sure everyone was up to speed with the details of the takeover.
    Alec lost himself in paperwork for a while, rereading some reports and making a few notes in the margins until Jen, the PA he shared with Katherine, interrupted him.
    “Alec, the new temp is down in reception.” Jen stood by his desk. “I’m just on my way down to meet him.”
    “Thanks, Jen. Bring him straight up. Then give him a quick tour before we meet at nine thirty to discuss the deal.”
    “Will do.” Jen turned with a swish of her dark hair and hurried off.
    Alec carried on reading. He was so focused on his task that he didn’t notice the sound of footsteps approaching a little later.
    “Alec.”
    Jen’s voice made him raise his head. He looked at her first, before he let his gaze move to the man beside her. The polite smile froze on his face and adrenaline flooded his system with a jolt that nearly took his breath away.
    “This is Ed Piper, your new trainee. Ed, this is Alec Rowland, Senior Associate. He’s leading the team you’ll be working with.”
    Ed barely reacted. There was the tiniest flare of anxiety in his eyes, but Alec only saw it because he was looking for it.
    Alec stood to greet him, good breeding and thirty-two years of ingrained etiquette making his limbs move on autopilot. “Hello, Ed.” He held out his