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on the company for years.” As he talked, I looked through the documents. When I realized what I was looking at, I was shocked… and ecstatic. The shock went away when I realized he’d done this because he planned on forcing Rick out after their merger that never happened. But the fact remained, we had what we needed.
     
    “Oh my God,” I said. “How did you…?” My father was smiling and Adele was looking confused.
     
    “What is it?” she asked me.
     
    “It would seem that my father owns shares in Taylor Corp. A lot of them.” I handed the paperwork to her and as she looked over them, she looked as shocked as I felt.
     
    “How?” she said.
     
    Dad chuckled and with that look of pride in his business acumen that I knew so well, he said, “I have a lot of friends. I had these friends of mine invest their money in the stock and then I turned around and bought it back. I paid slightly more for it than they did, so it was a win/win. In this case it was a big win, for me. Or, I suppose now, for you.”
     
    “Are you saying that we can use this to…?” I was afraid to say it out loud.
     
    “You can use it, as long as you use it wisely,” Dad said.
     
    Still fighting that part of me that wanted to be suspicious I said, “At what cost to us?” He had to want something in return. This was James Hunter, or as Adele liked to call him, “The Great and Powerful.”
     
    Dad shook his head. “No cost. We’ll look at it as part of my making amends. Use it as you see fit. Work together and save what we’ve all built for the next generation of this family.”
     
    It was Adele’s turn to shock him. She jumped up and dove into him, wrapping her arms around his neck. “Thank you! Thank you so much!”
     
    Dad’s face was red. I couldn’t recall ever seeing him embarrassed in my life. When she pulled back he said, “You’re welcome, but literally speaking, it was the least that I could do.”
     

ADELE
     
     
    That night Seth stayed with me at my apartment. We were both exhausted from the stress of the day and had planned on him only holding me until we fell asleep. We lay there for a while, listening to the comfortable silence and feeling the beats of each other’s hearts. I felt him shift me closer to him and he whispered my name, “Adele?”
     
    “Yes?” I whispered back.
     
    “Are you still tired?”
     
    I resisted the urge to giggle. I could feel why he wanted to know against the soft part of my belly that was pressed up against him. “Not really,” I said. He bent his head and kissed me. It was a soft kiss, but as our lips met, our bodies entwined. His kiss became long and deep and when his lips left mine, his tongue blazed a path across most of my body. My fatigue was gone, just like that and I had no power to resist. We made love and then afterwards as I lay against his chest, listening to the rhythmic sounds of his breathing, I closed my eyes and I knew… everything was going to be okay.

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    CHAPTER FOUR
     
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    ADELE
     
     
    The next morning, I said goodbye to Seth who was going to take care of some meetings today and give me a much needed day off. He left my room and I got into the shower. Since it was Saturday morning, I didn’t think Grant would be awake. When I walked out into the kitchen, I realized that I was wrong. He was at the kitchen table, luckily with a shirt on, sipping his coffee. He had his running clothes on and I wasn’t sure if he was coming or going, but as soon as I saw the amused expression on his face I knew he had run into Seth before he left. Seth told me he was finished with all the jealousy, but there was still residual anxiety in the pit of my belly over it. Grant and Seth hadn’t seen each other since Seth and I made up. Grant was still bristling a little bit about Seth not telling me about the takeover although I’d already forgiven him. I guess I should be thankful he was sporting a shirt.
     
    “Were you nice?” I asked him, as I poured