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  ‘Don’t I know it?’ Jack pulled a wry face. ‘You’ve always been able to wind me round your little finger.’

  ‘I love you,’ Grace said now, reaching up to kiss him, and Jack returned the caress with enthusiasm.

  ‘Love you, too,’ he said fervently. ‘I’ve never been happier in my life.’

  And he wondered if that was why he’d seen Lisa only the once since she’d scared the bejesus out of Sean.

  She’d appeared for the last time the evening after Tom Spencer had told them he’d heard from Sean.

  Jack had been sitting at his desk, trying to concentrate on his latest design for a science museum, when he’d become conscious of her presence.

  ‘You’re happy,’ Lisa had said, a certain wistfulness in her expression. ‘Oh, and by the way, you won’t be troubled by Sean again. I’ve taken care of that.’

  And apparently she had. The last they’d heard, Sean was emigrating to Australia, and Jack couldn’t help wondering if Sean realised that wasn’t an escape.

  Well, wherever Lisa was, he hoped she’d found her own nirvana at last.

  Despite everything that had happened, he’d like to think so.

  Now he bent to lift his baby son into his arms. The dark eyes, so like his own, gazed back at him in sleepy contentment.

  ‘He’s beautiful,’ he said proudly. ‘You’re beautiful. How did I ever find a girl like you?’

  ‘Just lucky, I guess,’ said Grace, her eyes twinkling, and Jack thought how wonderful it was to think they could face the future without any of the ghosts of the past.

  * * * * *

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  Daisy Sinclair is determined to get over the embarrassment of Colin Forsythe accidentally seeing her naked...something that he didn’t seem to mind at all!

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  SWEET SEDUCTION

  by New York Times bestselling author Daire St. Denis

  “MS. SINCLAIR?”

  Daisy looked up at the man standing in the doorway to her office. Yes, he was Colin Forsythe all right. His wavy brown hair might have been a bit longer than in the picture beside his column, but he had the same square jaw, the same nose—though in person it was a little crooked— and the same full lips. While he was recognizable, his byline picture did not do him justice. In that picture he came off as stern, albeit in a well-coiffed, intellectual sort of way. In person? Wow. He looked anything but. His eyes sparkled with irreverence, his lips turned up at one side as if he was trying to keep a sinful smile in check, and he was just...bigger. More like a professional athlete than a distinguished foodie.

  His eyebrows rose under her appraisal. “Do I pass?”

  Daisy cringed. Good-looking. Big ego. No surprise. Obviously, he was going to make this impossible for her. But he was Colin Forsythe, and she’d been anticipating this interview ever since taking over Nana Sin’s bakery three years ago. Of course he had to show up today of all days.

  “Can we pretend, for my sake, that we’re meeting for the first time, right now? That you didn’t just...” Daisy paused to take a deep, composing breath. “Hello, Mr. Forsythe.” She walked around her desk, hand outstretched. “I’m Daisy Sinclair. Welcome to Nana Sin’s.”

  He rubbed his jaw as if trying to massage his face into a serious expression. It didn’t work. When she was close enough, he took her hand and shook it firmly. “It’s Colin.”

  “Colin.” She set her lips in a grim line and sauntered past, head held high. At the door she turned. “Shall we?”

  “Shall we what?”

  Daisy rolled her eyes. “Aren’t you here to see the bakery?”

  In one step Colin was beside her, looking down at her. Damn, the man was tall. Not fair. And what the hell was he doing, blasting her with that sinful smile of his?

  “I’ve already seen everything.” He grinned.

  She groaned.

  He came closer, spoke more softly. “What I’d really like is a taste.”

  The way he looked at her made Daisy think he wanted to taste her.

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  Copyright © 2016 by Dara-Lee Snow

  ISBN-13: 9781488000652

  A Forbidden Temptation

  Copyright © 2016 by Anne Mather

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