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impressive resume,” he said and gave her a
smile and a look that made him seem genuinely impressed.  “ Summa cum laude. 
Wow.  You must be genius material.”
    Erin blushed,
grateful for the compliment but a bit uncomfortable with his praise.  “I study
hard, that’s all.”
    “And you know what
that tells me about you?” Mike said, slamming the paper on the table.  “You’re
a hard worker.  You’re the kind of person we want here.  Now when can you
start?”
    “Wh…what?  That’s
it?  Aren’t you going to ask me any questions?”  Erin stared at the man, wondering
if he’d gone mad.  What kind of interview was this?
    “Nope.  I read
your resume, now I’ve seen you, and I like you.  That’s it.”  He shrugged then
leaned back in the chair and locked his fingers across his paunch.  “So do you
want the job or not?”
    Erin knitted her
brows in confusion.  “I…do want the job."  She gave him a bright smile. 
“I can start right away, Mr. Mason.”
    “Good.  We have a
party of twenty-two coming in this afternoon and that’s in addition to our
regular customers so it’s going to be busy.  Sally will get you a uniform and
you’ll be good to go.”  He pulled out a sheet of paper from a folder and slid
it across the desk toward her.  “Now let's talk money.”
    Erin didn’t bother
to hide her smile.  She liked the sound of that.  A lot.
    Her luck had
finally turned and now she could breathe again.  She’d work hard and tuck away
as much money as she could.  She guessed she could hide her pregnancy for
another three months, tops, and then, God help her, she’d be on her own.  Mr.
Mason seemed like a nice man but how would he react when he learned of her
condition?  She could only pray he’d be sympathetic. 
    But she had to
prepare for the worst.  As she signed the papers she thought of the tiny life
growing inside her.  ‘Don’t you worry, little one,” she whispered silently. 
‘You and me, we’ll make it together.”
    ***
     
     
    “Dare.  Are you
with me, man?”
    Dare dragged his
eyes back into focus and stared across his desk at the grinning man.
    “You’ve been out
of it lately,” his long-time friend and business associate said with a laugh.  "If
I didn’t know you I’d say you were in love.” 
    Dare frowned at
him but said nothing.  The statement did not warrant an answer.  Bart knew
him.  He had no time for women, least of all the money-hungry kind.  There were
always plenty of those around.  He had his pick.  The problem was, he wanted
none of them.  But there was one woman he could not get off his mind.  A
slender woman with chestnut hair that curled around her heart-shaped face, a
woman with hazel eyes that flashed with the fire of her passion.  Bart was
right.  There was something wrong with him.  He was not in love but damn it, he
was obsessed.  He could not get Erin out of his mind.  “Sorry about that,” Dare
growled then pulled his chair close to the desk.  “Let’s get back to the
business at hand.”
    “Cool.”  Bart ran
his fingers through his spiky blonde hair then tilted the chair back until it
looked dangerously close to tipping over.  “It’s a sweet deal.  You can’t pass
up on this one.  I got a tip on it.  Going real cheap, considering.”
    “You're sure?”
Dare admired his friend’s ability to find great real estate deals.  Bart found
the deals and he financed them.  That was how he’d acquired resorts on four
other islands.
    “Trust me, man. 
You can’t lose out on this one.”  Bart leaned forward, his face earnest.  “I
can sniff out a deal a hundred miles away.  You know I’m good at that.”
    He was.  Dare
could not deny it.  Working together they’d become billionaires in the real
estate business, buying up resorts in the Caribbean and condos in the United
States and Canada then renovating and selling them for far more than they’d
invested.
    “This one’s big
though,