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convenience for the consummate workaholic he’d become. In fifteen minutes, his attorney’s would be here as well as Sally’s legal team for the final contractual arrangements for the show. She would be arriving tomorrow afternoon and the filming would begin the following morning.
    At that thought, his thoughts o nce again drifted to Candasee. She was a brilliant corporate attorney with a real knack for closing even the toughest deals in the interest of her clients but unfortunately, she didn’t love it. She was his right hand, his partner, and she handled his business deals in the past very professionally. She always made sure that he knew the fine print and what he was getting into with every deal. More than once she’d helped him secure lucrative contracts which expanded his wealth exponentially. But that life with him did not make her happy. It just wasn’t enough! He remembered bitterly.
    He was building an empire for her and the family they could’ve had, but none of that mattered to her. She didn’t care about the money; she just wanted to be happy.  He’d often told her how irresponsible and immature it was of her to want to live her life like that, although he knew it never made any sense the way he felt about her decision to quit being an attorney. It wasn’t a crime for her to choose a career that she enjoyed. People did that every day, so that clearly wasn’t the real reason why he was so vehemently opposed to her decision to throw it all away to become a dance instructor. With every class she took it seemed she just slipped away from him and everything he did to keep her close, just served to push her further away.
    He recalled that it was through her work as an attorney that they met for the first time. Even now he could remember with startling clarity the day he walked into Kiering and Plessette Associates located on the island of Barbados to seal the deal to finalize the purchase of the land on which this hotel now proudly sat in Derrien Island. It belonged to a wealthy Barbadian retired justice of the peace, who no longer wanted to develop it and after pulling some strings, he was able to secure one of the best stretches of beachfront property on the entire island. Most of the early negotiations were done by video conferencing but that day he went to sign the official documents indicating that the sale of the land was now finalized. It was a one-day trip which ended up lasting almost two weeks; all because of her!
    Derrien Island was his mother’s home country and he moved here with her at the age of ten. He was born in Scotland but his experiences there had forever closed his mind toward ever wanting to make that country his home. It wasn’t anything to do with the country itself per say because from his vague memories it was a really beautiful place. The problem lay with his father’s side of the family who were so abhorrent to him that he’d forced them from his mind a long time ago. He even found it difficult to recall what his father looked like sometimes. All he knew was that they made the early years of his life and his mother’s life such a nightmare that eventually she was unable to take the abuse any more. It was then that they relocated to her former home on Derrien Island.
    So , purchasing the land the hotel stood on was therefore very important to him. It was his way of making sure that his mother would be taken care of financially and have part ownership of something she could really be proud of.
    Candasee just happened to be the attorney assigned to close the deal. Never in his wildest dreams did he think the Ms. Maxwell he was expecting would turn out to be a young, dark-skinned and exquisitely gorgeous woman who to his immediate delight was wearing no wedding rings. His usual demeanour of steely indifference worked wonders in his business meetings but on that day it seemed totally out of place. It was very difficult to concentrate on anything else but her during that brief