Alex opened up the e-mail and grimacedâa video.
He clicked on the âplayâ button and waited a moment for it to load. Turned the speaker up a touch on his computer and frowned at the poor quality of the picture on screen. It was black and white. And then he recognised what that small space wasâan elevator. And then someone walked into it. And, as if he was trapped in it again, freefalling, his stomach dropped.
Hell
He leaned closer to the screen as she waited in the lift. Her face was clear in the frame, and now so was his as he stood side on, until he turned and faced her. Their mouths were moving, but the security camera recorded images, not sound. Even so, he knew exactly what was being said. Heâd replayed that too brief exchange a million times every sleepless night since.
Alex watched, seeing now what heâd felt so gloriously at the time. His back was to the camera but you could see her face as he kissed her lips, her jaw, her neck. Her eyes were closed. Her hands caressed his shoulders, his hair. Passionate. Beautiful. And then came the moment her legs parted, wrapped around his waist, and his body reacted now as it had then. Instantly hardening, instantly burning, insisting on getting closer.
And then the lift moved. It had been over far too quickly.
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âNatalie Anderson is one of the most exciting voices in steamy romantic fiction writing today. Sassy, witty and emotional, her Modern Heat⢠are in a class of their ownâ¦An extraordinary new talent who can blend passion, drama, humour and emotion in one unforgettable read!â
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âNatalie Andersonâs HIS MISTRESS BY ARRANGEMENT is a charming romance of childhood friends reconnecting. Itâs both fun and flirty, and conveys the wonderful feeling of finding someone you can truly be yourself with.â
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This is the first book in Natalie Andersonâs
exciting new duet: HOT UNDER THE COLLAR.
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UNBUTTONED BY HER MAVERICK BOSS, out next month!
Caught on Camera with the CEO
by
Possibly the only librarian who got told off herself for talking too much, Natalie Anderson decided writing books might be more fun than shelving themâand, boy, is it that! Especially writing romanceâitâs the realisation of a lifetime dream kick-started by many an afternoon spent devouring Grandmaâs Mills & Boon®â¦
She lives in New Zealand, with her husband and four gorgeous-but-exhausting children. Swing by her website any timeâsheâd love to hear from you: www.natalie-anderson.com
Recent titles by the same author:
TO LOVE, HONOUR AND DISOBEY
HOT BOSS, BOARDROOM MISTRESS BETWEEN THE ITALIANâS SHEETS PLEASURED IN THE PLAYBOYâS PENTHOUSE
For the best apple pie and chocolate chip biscuit baker in the world: Aunty Margaret.
No one makes âem like you do. And no one laughs as infectiously as you either.
Thank you for all your support.
âYOUâLL have that for me by three? Fantastic.â
Dani forced her body to freeze at the sound of that voice.
âNo problem.â
Dani knew the breathless assistant would have it for him by two at the latestâjust as she would if heâd asked her.
Alex Carlisle, CEO of Carlisle Finance Corporation, on his rounds againâgliding through the open-plan area and bewitching his staff so they performed above and beyond. She wondered if he even knew the effect he had on his legions of adoring employees.
And Dani was the latest. Not looking was impossible. Her lashes lifted.
Truthfully she was probably the only one whose work was suffering because of him. She found him so distracting she wasnât getting half as much done as she should. Half of her wished heâd go away so her insides wouldnât be so pummelled, but all of her wanted him to stay.
He was so good to look at, sheâd been watching him all week. Sheâd seen how he abandoned his lavish office suite at the top of the building and came to talk with his worker antsâall of whom then frantically tapped faster at keyboards to get the work done for him. Charismatic, confident, Alex Carlisle got everything he wanted, every time. And if the water-cooler gossip sheâd got from one of the secretaries was anything to go by, women were a big part of what he wantedâbeautiful, highflying, high-society women. He played a lot, apparently. And all his female employees wished like crazy heâd play with them.
Dani totally understood why they did, but she wasnât going to admit she was floored by him too. So predictable. Anyway she couldnât afford to fixate like this. She checked the time. Only a few minutes and she could go to lunch. Sheâd never clock-watched before, usually enjoyed her work so the hours flew, but she had a mission to fulfil. Besides, something about this place made her antsy. OK, it was him. She was waiting, always waiting for him to appear. Now he had, she couldnât wait to bust a move, so restless it was as if she had creepycrawlies infesting every inch of her clothing.