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he’d become aroused. The way Temperance responded
to him, he knew she was attracted to him. They had also crossed a line. He
didn’t know why he’d told her about Tina, but they had been dancing around this
for a long time. The tension was building between them.
    “What do you think?” O’Brian asked.
    “It sounds like a lot of work for makeup,” Richard
said.
    “Please, this is my product. I’m telling you, it’ll reach far and wide. Miss Harris, what about
you?” O’Brian offered his supposedly warm, winning smile toward her.
    “I’m sorry?” Temperance looked at him and then back at
O’Brian. “I’m not sure I follow.”
    “Is that an O’Brian I detect on your beautiful face?”
    Temperance shook her head. “No.” She said it so the O
at the end sounded long and drawn out. Richard couldn’t help but smile.
    “Excuse me?”
    “I don’t wear O’Brian products.”
    Richard saw the change in his potential client. “Why
not?”
    She looked toward him, and Richard raised a brow. He
didn’t give a shit if she insulted the egotistical bastard.
    “Erm, they’re too expensive.”
    “So you don’t get paid enough?”
    Richard smirked.
    “Actually, I get paid a great deal for the job I do.
What I don’t like is wasting the money on a bunch of foundation when it’s all
the same.” She pressed her lips together, looking sick.
    He found it to be one of the funniest things he’d seen
all day. “What my very efficient PA is trying to say is that you’re currently a
limited market. The wealthy are more than happy to buy expensive products whereas
women on a smaller income couldn’t afford it.” Richard started to get into his
line of marketing the man’s product to the masses, and within time, going for
the entertainment industry using it as well. He saw he had already captured
O’Brian’s attention, and he just needed to draw him that final bit with the
figures.
    Once he had O’Brian, they signed on the dotted line,
and Richard had now acquired another element to his empire.
    “Well done,” Temperance said, later that night.
    It was a little after ten, as the meeting had run on
for a lot longer than Richard anticipated.
    “I couldn’t have done it without you.”
    “Yeah, right. You’re an expert in getting what you
want. You had that completely covered.” She packed away the files, and together
they made their way toward leaving the conference room. They made their way
back toward his office, and Richard went straight to his safe.
    Taking the folders from her, he placed them inside,
and locked them away ready for tomorrow morning where he’d hand them to his
lawyer.
    “It took you commenting about your foundation to finally
draw him in,” he said, wanting to give credit where credit was due.
    “But I didn’t lie to you about that or about anything.
I don’t wear O’Brian products.”
    “Is it because they’re overpriced?”
    She pursed her lips. “Mostly. In the beginning it was
because they were too expensive. All foundation works. Then I met the guy
behind the makeup, and I didn’t like him, so I won’t buy any of his stuff. He’s
already got enough ego as it is.”
    “I don’t have to market him, just his product.”
    “I couldn’t believe how he wanted to market it with porn
stars, and regular people. Seriously, I feel like I was dealing with an
amateur. There are ways to handle different products.”
    “Are you a prude?” he asked, leaning against the edge
of his desk. Temperance stood in front of him, so close that their legs were
almost touching.
    “I’m not a prude.”
    “The porn stars didn’t bother you?”
    “Not at all. We’ve all got to earn a living, and we
all have ways of earning it. What I don’t agree with is putting everything in
one big box, and calling it neatly wrapped. I was thinking for the sultry line
get adult entertainers to work with it. As you go down his different lines,
you’ll see what appeals to some, and not others.”
    “No