PROLOGUE
Gina Deverell wanted answers. Why had her father’s business failed? Why were there so many rumours about that failure having being orchestrated by Matthew Dark, CEO of Dark Industries?
One way to get those answers was to get her old job back so Gina applies using a false name and finally gets an interview with Matthew Dark himself.
He isn’t like she expected – he’s young, very handsome but above all he runs his organisation in his own unique way and he doesn’t employ women in managerial positions. Gina is outraged by his chauvinist attitude but nonetheless the ‘way out of line’ but enigmatic Mr Dark has left his mark on her.
She soon discovers that he has enemies and that his number one rival, Benito Carlotti, is also a global player in the electronics industry. She also learns that rumours are rife around the industry about a new product Dark Industries is developing – a product that will seriously damage the chances of his rivals in its sector of the market. She is invited by an old customer to Carlotti’s birthday party and there she bumps into Matthew Dark once again.
Dark likes Gina – she’s his type and he promises her the job she wants if she can impress him. It soon becomes obvious that impressing Matthew Dark means going to bed with him and submitting to his every demand.
Gina knows she shouldn’t fall for this, she realises he is selfish and domineering and possibly even dangerous – she has already been warned. But she is intensely attracted to him and she can’t help herself.
Dark is living in the penthouse of the hotel where the party is being held and he gives Gina the key telling her to go up and wait for him. She does but determines to use this as an opportunity to search for information about the mysterious new product Dark Industries are developing.
Gina finds what she wants and takes photos with her cell phone then leaves. But that wasn’t all she found in Dark’s bedroom. Under a pillow on the bed she finds a pair of handcuffs and a length of fine rope. She is stunned – what sort of a man is Matthew Dark and what did he have planned for her? Earlier he’d kissed her and more – but only once he’d made her put her hands behind her back and keep them there. Control – she realised – that was what Dark was about. Gina knows now that she shouldn’t have any sort of relationship with him but she is fast being drawn in and becoming obsessed with him.
They meet for lunch the next day and after he takes her back to his office – her father’s old office. He wants her and Gina is fast loosing the ability to refuse him anything. But Dark doesn’t just want her – he wants her in his own special way – restrained and helpless. So he binds her hands with rope before starting his sexual onslaught of her needy body.
But he doesn’t finish this intimate interlude. He leaves her hungry for more, frustrated and puzzled. He knows Gina has stolen from him, he has a camera in his penthouse and that captured her every move the night before. Now he is going to punish her. He takes her home and tells her and her step mum, Grace - that she is to be his captive for the next few weeks.
Chapter 1
Dark’s large frame towered over Gina as he spoke to the seated girl . “It’s very simple ,” he told her with his hands on his tapering hips. “ I need to make sure that you ’ re well out of the way for a couple of weeks. Somewhere n ice and secure and unable to contact anyone, no cell ‘phone, no internet and no one around who knows my business for you to gossip to.”
Matthew Dark watched her big blue eyes widen with incredulity as she considered this prospect but he simply nodded back at her questioning face. He wouldn’t brook refusal he meant it, every word , she was going with him whether she liked it or not, so she’d just have to get used to the