FAZER LOGINDiana showed up at her in-laws’ house with Victoria, Nathan, and Gabriel in tow.She’d already tried her own mother, but the woman had pretended to have dementia and not remember who Diana was, just to get out of watching the kids.The babysitter couldn’t handle all five of them for long, and Diana had a hard time finding anyone she trusted enough to leave her children with for a couple of days.Just two days. That was all she needed. She wanted a little time alone with her husband before the ogre living inside him got any more unbearable.Every time they tried, one of the kids turned up in the bedroom.The night before, it had been Victoria, announcing she was scared and wedging herself between them until the sun came up.“What are you doing here?” her mother-in-law growled the second she saw her, but her face changed as soon as she spotted the kids. “Did you come to see Grandma and Grandpa? You missed us, didn’t you?”Nathan was about to be his usual brutally honest self and blurt o
“Diana, what are you doing here?” Natalie asked, as if her showing up in Diana’s husband’s office were the most normal thing in the world.Diana had been sure she’d never have to see her again.The last she’d heard, the woman had broken Roger’s heart and run off with his brother.“Pixie, I have nothing to do with this woman being here,” her husband whispered, and she, sitting right beside him, didn’t want to let her fury show.So she set about answering with every ounce of calm she had.“Don’t tell me you’re here to apply for the assistant job?” Diana asked, with a smile that promised nothing good.But Natalie, who clearly had nothing furnished upstairs, not even half a brain, took the smile as an invitation to come in and sit down.“No, that’s not why I came. I didn’t even know Alexander was looking for an assistant.” The way she said Diana’s husband’s name, and the look she gave him, forced Diana to call on every last bit of her self-control.She felt a burning rage toward that woma
Diana arrived at the company to help her husband interview candidates for his new assistant.It had been almost two months since Roger left, and he still hadn't chosen anyone.The last time they'd talked to Roger was right after he broke off his engagement, and they'd been looking for someone suitable to hand off some of his duties to.They both wanted to go see him because they knew he wasn't doing very well, but so far they hadn't been able to.Diana had promised to help with the selection since he kept rejecting everyone, and she'd also told him she wouldn't interfere with his decision, because in the end he was the one who'd be working with the person.She was only there as a spectator, nothing more."Why were you so late?!" her husband snapped the second she walked into the office. "We should've started half an hour ago. By the way, you look beautiful today, pixie."Diana walked over and kissed him to thank him for the compliment.She knew he was lying, because she'd looked in th
Two years later…After the heartbreak Natalie had put him through, Roger vowed to make a radical change.He left behind the idea of starting a family and searching for love, and flitted from flower to flower, or from skirt to skirt, instead.Why keep looking for it? It made no sense.If none of them had wanted him when he was just somebody’s assistant, they could forget about looking for him now that he was a success.He took over his family’s company, and even though the fashion business was a far cry from the work he’d done alongside his friend Alexander over the years, he had learned how to be a shark in finance, and he’d learned it well.In the two years he’d been running the company, he had worked tirelessly, and not even the pile of scandals at his back had stopped him from making a name for himself in the world of fashion and in the world of women.Roger could have passed for the most eligible bachelor around if his reputation as a womanizer weren’t so disastrous.He’d stopped
Roger got in the car and started driving without any idea where he was headed. The night he’d believed would be nothing but happiness had turned into torture, and he still couldn’t believe what he’d witnessed. With his own brother, no less, and Joseph hadn’t felt a shred of guilt. The only thing that worried him was whether Roger would tell their father.Even though every part of him was begging for revenge, he wasn’t going to take it. He wouldn’t let a woman like her cause a family feud. He didn’t need to ask why. It was all painfully clear, and Natalie’s words had been more than enlightening. She wasn’t about to marry a man who didn’t want to get ahead, and since she’d figured his brother would be the one stepping into their father’s shoes, she had sold herself to the highest bidder. He should have seen it coming, but he never imagined the betrayal would come twice over. Joseph was still h
Roger took Natalie out to the garden.The engagement ring was heavy in his pocket, and his guilt was heavier.She looked dazed and a little nervous.“What the heck just happened in there?!” she asked after several minutes of silence.Roger shoved his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels.“That was my family being my family. Just a normal day, like any other.” He managed a shaky smile, his heart pounding.It was going to hurt so much when she left him.“Wow, they’re a little… special. Your sister is really sweet, though,” she said, not meeting his eyes. “So… what’s going to happen with us? You don’t seem to have much of a clue what you’re doing with your life.”“I’m clear on one thing, at least,” he said, working up his courage and pulling the little ring box out of his pocket. “I wan







