Harlequin Desire April 2023--Box Set 1 of 2 by Karen Booth

Author:Karen Booth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

TEN

Being with Reign had been all that he’d imagined it would be and more, but Abe had mixed feelings about it. His plan sounded good in theory but playing it out had a huge downside. He was being less than honest with a woman he really, really, liked. Someone he could see settling down with. As crucial a fact as that was, revealing himself totally to Reign was far from the only factor. There was the grandfather whose wealth had helped found Kutoka Global and whose ultimatum with a ticking time clock had landed him in Chicago, and whose declining health had his mother thinking of arranged marriages, a waning practice Abe knew about but never thought he’d have to do. There was his position as heir apparent to a billion-dollar company, one of the reasons his father, the current president, had agreed to his request. There was the reason he couldn’t allow Reign to give herself to him fully, the ghost of a past love and present pain, someone who, in Abe’s opinion, was a midget of a man, but who’d somehow captured a heart of gold with no idea how to handle it. There was the not-so-subtle pressure from his mother that he marry one of the women she approved of, one from a familiar family, someone from the Kingdom of Kutoka. He wanted to honor his family, but when it came to whomever he spent his life with, he’d do the choosing, thank you very much.

For now, he was going to focus on duties that, due to his cousin’s dare and the Reign distraction, he’d neglected. He’d make travel plans to visit the company’s affiliates and write the update his father had demanded, something he’d planned to do all along.

That evening the ice had melted enough for the citywide travel ban to be lifted, but businesses were strongly encouraged to remain closed and residents to stay home if possible. It had taken Reign over an hour for a trip that would normally take twenty minutes.

Around ten o’clock, Abe had received a company memo from Nolan cutting back hours and utilizing only a skeleton crew. Abe had unexpectedly received two days off. With the call from Jeffrey yesterday, the timing couldn’t have been better.

Today, he’d gotten up at just past six and by noon had studied the information Jeffrey had sent along with every bit of information on the website of the New York company Kutoka Global might acquire. In addition to detailed research and studying intellectual property, Abe had made successful decisions based on his gut. Something about the ingenuity of their invention felt exciting and progressive. Harnessing the sun’s energy and leaving a lighter footprint on the planet aligned perfectly with the mission and direction of their business. Plus, he liked that it was a small company founded by twins not yet twenty-five.

After an hour-long video chat with Jeffrey and the team back home, followed by an introductory one with the brothers Edward and Elliott, Abe booked a flight to New York for the following morning, returning that same day.

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