Irresistible Forces
name on her lips seemed to warm his skin. He even felt his insides beginning to melt. He figured he needed to get her up to his hotel room before his sexual response to her became too obvious. “Taylor, I hope you had a pleasant ride coming here.”
    She smiled as she glanced over at Ryder. “Um, it was rather interesting.”
    Only someone who knew Ryder Sanders as well as Dominic was aware of the man fighting the urge to smile back. Evidently his driver had broken several speed limits.
    Years ago, when at the age of fourteen, a kidnapping attempt had been made on Dominic, Franco Saxon, in one of his rare but manipulative moves had sent Ryder. Marcello had been too distraught at the thought of someone trying to use his son in a ransom scheme to send Ryder back. By the time Dominic had learned of his grandfather’s gesture, Ryder had become not only his bodyguard, driver and traveling companion, but the now fifty-something man had become his good friend. Dominic moved around freely knowing that Ryder had his back.
    “Interesting?” Dominic said. “I’m sure it was. Are you ready to go up to my suite for dinner?”
    “Yes, I’m ready.”
    The sound of her voice stoked the fires within him once again. There was a whole world of difference between the Taylor he met each month to discuss his financial portfolio and the one standing in front of him looking good enough to devour. All of a sudden the menu that he’d carefully selected lost its appeal and he was developing a taste for something else altogether. Something that was just as succulent.
    He gestured toward the bank of elevators. “There’s a private one that goes up to the floor where the owner suites are located.”
    She began walking beside him across the lobby floor. He saw several heads turn and knew everyone was probably thinking they made a beautiful couple. Little did they know that during the course of the next few hours they would be encased in his hotel room discussing whether or not they should make a beautiful baby together.
    His heart began to thunder in his chest. He had a feeling it would be a long and tempting evening.

    This had to be the longest elevator ride that she’d ever taken, Taylor thought as she tried looking at everything other than Dominic. He was standing beside her and she felt tension grip her stomach.
    She didn’t feel like engaging in a nice conversation just to pass the time. Although she and Dominic had spent many hours together poring over his financial portfolio, their meeting tonight would be altogether different. She was now a woman with a plan. And it was a plan that she hoped he would go along with.
    “I should have asked before commissioning the cook to come up with something special for dinner tonight if you’re allergic to anything.”
    She glanced up at him. “No, there’s nothing I can think of that doesn’t agree with my system.”
    “I’m glad to hear that.”
    She met his eyes. They were staring deep into hers.
    “And don’t be surprised if we see my parents at some point tonight.”
    She arched a brow. “Your parents?”
    “Yes. They’re here at the hotel. They flew in from California and are on their way out of the country.”
    She nodded. “I’ve seen pictures of them together in various magazines. They make a nice couple,” she said, meaning every word. Marcello Saxon was an extremely handsome man with his classic French looks. And Dominic’s mom was a beauty, who didn’t look a day past forty. In a rare photo that Dominic and his parents had taken together that had appeared in People magazine earlier this year, Megan Saxon looked young enough to have passed for his sister.
    “Thanks, and I agree. They do make a nice couple. I am fortunate to have them as parents.”
    The elevator came to a stop and the doors swooshed open. Dominic stood back for her to walk out ahead of him and then he was there again, by her side, leading the way down an elegantly carpeted hall toward a set of double
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