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needed. She thought about buzzing Kelly, but she couldn’t put up with any more giddy gawking. She was doing enough of that herself. But it was hard to look away from a smooth-shaven Deacon. Not that he was completely devoid of facial hair. Dark stubble covered his lower face and seemed to be growing before her eyes. As if reading her thoughts, he stroked his jawbone as he glanced around the room.
    “Do you really need all this space?”
    As she had never thought about it before, it took her a moment to answer. “Probably not, but it came with the position.”
    “And that is?”
    “Vice-president of sales.” She paused. “And soon-to-be CEO.”
    “Hmm?” His eyebrows lifted, and he took another sip.
    Since she had about a zillion things to do, Olivia sat down behind her desk. “Once all the t ’s are crossed, I planned to have the money transferred into the bank account of your choice.” She opened her briefcase and took out her checkbook. “But I’ll be more than happy to write you a check to tide you and your brothers over. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before.” She had just finished signing the check for ten thousand when a hand covered hers. While most people had a body temperature of ninety-eight point six, it seemed that Deacon’s was well above.
    “There’s no need for that, Olivia,” he said.
    She studied his long-fingered hand and the dark hair on his muscled forearm. “Then why are you here?”
    Before he could answer, there was a tap on the door, and Jason stuck his head in. “Sorry to interrupt, Ms. Harrington”—he glanced at Deacon—“but I need to speak with you right away.”
    Thankful to get away from his mind-altering heat, she pulled her hand from Deacon and excused herself. “Pardon me. I’ll be right back.” As soon as she got in the hallway, Jason held out the contracts.
    “There seems to be a problem.” He flipped through the pages until he got to the last one. “One of the signatures is missing.”
    “What?” She grabbed the contracts from him. “You have to be mistaken. I was there when all three brothers signed—” She stopped and looked back at the closed door, then at the empty line beneath the two other signatures. Her heart tumbled all the way down to her feet. Without saying a word to Jason, she strode back into the office.
    Deacon was sitting in her chair. He looked at the contract she held in her hand and smiled. Not the smile he’d given Kelly, but a sinister smile, like a cat that had just cornered a mouse. “Problems?”
    Olivia tried not to show her fear, but it wasn’t easy. “It seems that you forgot to sign the contract.”
    “Hmm? That is a dilemma.” He picked up the pen she’d been using to write the check. “Of course it’s easily solved.”
    She’d been in the business world long enough to know when she was being toyed with. She stepped closer to the desk and placed the contract on the top. “But you aren’t going to sign it, are you?”
    He twirled the pen through his fingers a few times before he spoke. “The Beaumonts have done their share of begging, don’t you think? Now it’s your turn, Olivia.”

C HAPTER SIX
    D eacon was playing a game he had no business playing. Especially when the money he was playing it with wasn’t his own. It was his brothers’ as well. And both Nash and Grayson wanted him to sign the contract and make them millionaires as quickly as possible. They had no desire to be owners of their uncle’s lingerie company. And Deacon didn’t want that either. Which didn’t explain why he’d refused to send the contract back with his uncle’s lawyers. Or why he had shaved his beard, cut his hair, and traveled all the way to California to deliver it in person.
    Obviously something had gone a little haywire in his brain. Something that had gotten even worse when he’d seen Olivia’s opulent office, stood looking at the spectacular view, and finally turned to find a spoiled executive in a suit