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he couldn’t help but remember how she’d felt in his arms the night before.
    “It was nothing. I can handle Nathalie,” Antonio said. “Any word on the leak?”
    “No. Nothing. But the information I am using as bait is highly sensitive and I don’t think we’ll hear about it for a few days.”
    “Should we bring in an outside company?”
    “I thought of that. I hired Stark Services to help.”
    “Good. I like Ian and he’s not afraid to go for blood. He sees corporate spying as a real international crime.”
    “I agree. He’s going to get stuff we can use in court.”
    “Good. Does he know about the bait?”
    “Yes, it was his suggestion. He’s on his way here from London. We should see him in the offices in the next day or so.”
    Ian Stark had been a college friend of Dom’s and he’d gone into his family’s business of protecting the rich and famous. Not as a bodyguard but as an intellectual properties security officer. He protected the secrets of the famous and he did a damn fine job of it.
    “I’m glad Ian’s working for us.”
    Dom shrugged. “I was hoping to handle it ourselves, but I’m not taking any chances on this.”
    Antonio knew that. He felt the same way. There was something about going from moving in wealthy circles to being beholden on their wealthier relatives that had cemented in all his brothers the belief that success was the most important thing in life. Money might not be able to buy happiness, but it did buy security and that was a very important commodity.
    “We’ve come too far to fail now,” Antonio said.
    Dom looked him straight in the eye and smiled. “True enough.”
    “You seem relieved to hear me say that.”
    “Sometimes I feel like I forced my dreams on both you and Marco.”
    Antonio shook his head. As teenaged boys, Marco, Dominic and he had made a vow to never fall in love. They had promised and sealed it with blood that they would be the generation to be lucky in business. “We took that blood oath together, remember? We all want this.”
    “Yeah, until a pretty face comes along.”
    “I think that little Enzo won Marco over as much as Virginia did,” Antonio said.
    Dom shrugged. “If he broke that curse on our family I’ll be happy, but I’m not convinced.”
    “Me either. I know that Virginia thinks the mingling of their blood broke it, but I remember that she said that they couldn’t fall in love. That seems like a mighty big oops on their behalf,” Antonio said. “Not that I’ve ever put much stock in the curse.”
    “That’s because you’ve never been in love.”
    “Nor tempted to be,” Antonio said. “Women are meant to be enjoyed and savored but never permanently.”
    Dom’s mobile rang and he stepped into the hall to answer it. Antonio straightened his papers on the boardroom table and felt someone watching him. He glanced up to see Nathalie standing there.
    “So women are like chocolates?” she asked.
    “I never said that. Just that men and women seldom want things for the long haul.”
    “What about your parents?”
    “They are the exception to the rule. And I’m not sure that they would have survived as a couple if my papa was interested in business.”
    “I’m not following,” she said.
    “I’m the kind of man who is all or nothing, so a woman could never compete with my business interests.”
    She nodded. “That’s good to know.”

Four
    N athalie had come back upstairs to see if she could have a minute of Antonio’s time. His brother and her father were both so stubborn and not at all suited to the kind of discussions that needed to happen if they were going to come to any sort of arrangement.
    Hearing him say so baldly that love and forever with a woman was the last thing on his mind didn’t really surprise her. From her experience, men couldn’t have both a family and a successful career. Her father was interested in her and Genevieve only because they were involved in the family business.
    Before they had