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“Nothing is wrong.”

“Did someone say something to hurt your feelings?” he asked.

How could that man zoom in on the truth so unerringly she wondered? “No. No one said anything that wasn’t true,” she said, then cringed at how much she’d revealed with those words.

His eyes narrowed and she watched in fascination as his lips thinned into a line of extreme annoyance. “What did they say and who were they?” he asked with a dangerously soft voice and Helen blushed at the anger emanating from him. Dimitri Theopolis was not a man to mess with. He was a dangerous man personally, but no one dared to cross him in the board room. When challenged, he was absolutely lethal. She’d seen it too many times and would hate to be on the receiving end of some of his tongue lashings or merciless business tactics. They were all legal, but when someone crossed him, they were destroyed.

Helen shook her head, determined to solve her own problems for once. “No. I’m not telling you anything,” she said firmly but couldn’t hold his gaze. Knowing him, she wouldn’t put it past him to fire the women who had spoken so callously this morning in the file room. It wasn’t that they were excellent employees. All of them were awful gossips who spent half their time slicing their co-workers to shreds. But if they were going to be fired, Helen didn’t want it to be because of something they said about her. Especially since it was true.

Dimitri wasn’t having any of that nonsense. “Why not? If someone hurt you, I want to know about it.”

Taking a deep breath, she laid her pencil down on the pad, her shoulders drooping sadly. “Because what they said was true.”

“It doesn’t matter if it was true or not, I’ll not tolerate people being inconsiderate to you, Helen,” he said, his lips thin and his eyes sparking green flames.

She smiled weakly at his show of support but shook her head. “It’s my problem. And I’ll deal with it in my own way,” she said softly, looking down at the floor. She wished he would move on to business. She could deal with anything he threw at her in that area. But when he was nice to her, it only made her love him more. She wanted to throw her arms around his neck and cry out her embarrassment on his chest, feel his muscular arms wrap around her and know that he would make everything okay. But that wasn’t her reality. She didn’t have the right to lean on him in that way. That was reserved for whoever he chose as his wife. And it definitely wouldn’t be her. “If you don’t have anything for me, I need to get back to that report. You have the meeting in two days and if I don’t pull the numbers together for you, it won’t be good.”

She stood up and rushed out of the office, almost falling into her chair as her legs stopped working. She hid herself under the pile of work at her desk, praying that he wouldn’t see how distressed she was.

Chapter 2

Dimitri let her go, his teeth gritting as he watched her walk out of his office, his body already aching with need from the moment he’d walked out of the elevator and seen her gorgeous smile with her bright, blue eyes that could swallow a man up with their depths. Her sweet, gentle, sexy walk only made him harder and he wished he could look away, but he didn’t, needing her presence too much to stop.

Shoving his hands into his hair, he cursed under his breath and looked out the window. He shouldn’t be here. He should be in Athens resolving the latest labor disputes and overseeing production of the next fleet for the Theopolis ships. But there was just something about Helen that drew him back to London over and over again. Even his mother was starting to ask about it, questioning the time he spent away from home.

He wanted Helen. With an aching, driving passion that he couldn’t ignore any longer. He’d interviewed her six months ago and hired her immediately, thinking at the time that the attraction was only an intellectual connection that would make them work better together. How could he have known at that point what a luscious, incredible body she had hidden under those severe suits and staid shoes? Of course, he’d loved the way her eyes had sparkled while she answered