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Clara’s stomach tightened. Whenever he touched her, she felt her whole body react to him. “What was it like?” she asked. “Starting your own business?”

“It was hard. Trust me, I am not going to paint it as anything other than what it is. Long hours, a lot of work, not to mention having to rely on people who were only after my money, and not interested in helping.” He gave her fingers a little squeeze. “If you want, I can help you.”

“Help me?”

“I did start my own company, so I may just know what I’m talking about. I can help you and you can have the start that makes the process easier. I’m not going to let anything happen to you, especially not with what happened to me.”

She opened her mouth about to question him but the waiter brought their food out. He delicately put their plates in front of them, and she smiled at him, and then waited for him to leave.

“What happened to you?” she asked, intrigued.

Grayson laughed. “Curious to see how hard my life was?” He winked at her.

“No, I’m curious about you. I mean, you don’t have to tell me or anything.”

He reached across the table and grabbed her hand, giving it a light squeeze. “Don’t worry about it. It was the usual. In the beginning I took everyone at face value and trust me, a lot of people can say the right kind of stuff, but they don’t mean it. They took money without jobs completed. I nearly went under once because of paying upfront for a job. It’s all down to inexperience and trust. The moment I started to realize where I went wrong, I changed, and my company as well as my life turned around. I’ll take care of you, Clara. I won’t let anything happen to you.”

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Clara was a star, and not just because he was fucking her. Grayson had known she was a bright pupil, and April had told him numerous times how amazing she was. He always listened to what his daughter had to say, and when it came to Clara, even though he tried to hide his attraction to her, he paid attention.

He always wanted to believe the worst of her. Grayson should have known better.

She wasn’t quite willing to give him some of her ideas as she had found them embarrassing. Clara had groundbreaking ideas, and he knew without a shadow of a doubt that any company, once they saw how inspired she was, how attuned she was, would snap her up in a heartbeat. He knew he wanted to.

But that was the problem. Companies would be terrified to let her go. They’d do everything to keep her in place, or to squash her down. He couldn’t allow that to happen, but he also knew she wasn’t quite ready to handle her own company. He didn’t want her to believe that he was holding her back.

The other little problem he now had was his daughter. She was back home and the trip he’d sent her on to enjoy her latest boyfriend had backfired. She had caught the idiot cheating on her, and now she’d taken all of Clara’s free time.

It meant Clara was staying with them, to help her friend, but he didn’t get any spare time with her. They hadn’t been able to discuss her business plans, and whenever he did get thirty minutes with her, all he wanted to do was fuck her and that was exactly what he did. She made him ache.

He’d never felt this way about a woman before and he knew he shouldn’t be feeling this for a young woman, but there was no denying it. Clara was under his skin and he didn’t want it any other way.

Like now, his office door was closed and of course locked. There had been an incident a few days ago when April had walked into his office. Clara had been on the floor in front of him, his pants around his ankles, his cock balls-deep inside her mouth. He had no choice but to deal with his daughter while Clara had stopped sucking him off and hid under his desk. She was so embarrassed. From then on, he made sure the door was always locked.

With Clara bent over his desk, her dress up to the base of her back and her panties already torn off, he smoothed his hands across her ass.

“Do you have any idea how sexy you look?” he asked.

Another moan escaped her.

He gave a little tut, spread the cheeks of her ass, and then slid a hand between her thighs. He pressed two fingers deep inside her cunt, feeling how tight she was. It didn’t matter how many times he fucked her, she always seemed so incredibly tight.

Pulling his fingers from her cunt, he opened his pants and eased out his cock. He wrapped his fingers around his length, and started to work from the base, up to the tip. He put the tip at her entrance and watched as she took him, inch by inch, sinking to the hilt within her.

She let out a moan, and he growled as her tight heat surrounded him.

So sexy.

And all his.

Grayson knew this had started out as a contract, but he couldn’t let her go, he didn’t want to. She was fucking perfection. His little virgin.

He was aware of her nervousness around his daughter. They had yet to tell April about their relationship, but he had also seen Clara become a little more withdrawn in the past couple of days. He tried to ignore it, but there were telltale signs that he couldn’t pretend weren’t there. Like her instant pulling away from him after they had sex. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d pulled her in close and kissed her.

Clara refused to sneak into his bedroom, and he didn’t like how difficult his night sleeps were becoming. She tried not to be alone with him, unless it was like this, for sex. Grayson didn’t want just sex. He didn’t want to lose her, but he had a horrible feeling he already was, and that hurt him.

When it came to April’s mother, he had never understood love. She’d been a means to an end, an agreement. She had April, and he took care of her, but he loved his daughter.

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