Free Yielding for Him by Lauren Fraser

Chapter One
     
     
     
    “ Miss Scott, you can’t go in there,” Donovan James’ secretary yelled.
    “It’s fine, he’ll see me, Marianne.”
    “No, he asked not to be disturbed,” Marianne called out.
    Even through the door he could hear the mad scramble of a chair sliding across the floor and the rapid staccato of high-heeled shoes clicking across the floor. His office door swung open and Lisa Scott stood at the entranceway. “Van, call off your dog.”
    His harried secretary Marianne stood beside Lisa. The fierce set of his assistant’s shoulders and her pursed lips almost made him laugh. Part of the reason why he’d hired her was because she intimidated practically everyone, but Lisa wasn’t like most people.
    “I told her you were busy,” the older woman told him. Her displeasure with the other woman dripped from her tongue.
    “It’s fine, Marianne,” Van assured her.
    Lisa rolled her eyes at him then turned to the smaller woman and smiled. “Can I get a cup of tea when you get a chance?”
    “Of course,” Marianne gritted.
    He bit his lip to hide his amusement at the interplay. Marianne disliked every woman he dated on sight and Lisa had been no different, despite the fact that Lisa had remembered Marianne’s birthday and anniversary. Still, the older woman had no patience for her, now Lisa seemed to take pleasure in annoying his assistant.
    Setting his pen down on the mountain of paperwork on his desk, he sighed. So much for getting through his work. Although if he was going to be interrupted, he couldn’t think of a better reason than Lisa. He scanned her body in the fitted skirt and blouse. Her dark brown hair was pulled back into some kind of knot and with her glasses on she had this whole librarian thing going on. And damned if the look didn’t just make him want to muss her up.
    Her blue eyes twinkled as she pointed a finger at him. “Don’t even think about it, mister. I have a meeting to go to when I finish here.”
    He held up his hands. “What’d I do? I was just looking. It’s not my fault you immediately think of sex the minute you see me.”
    Lisa snorted. “Yeah, it’s all me.”
    “What can I say, I’m irresistible.” He grinned at her. “All right, so if you didn’t come here for a quickie what brings you by?”
    Lisa scrunched up her nose and held up two fingers about an inch apart. “I have a teeny tiny favour.”
    Shit. Every time she had a teeny favour it cost him several thousand dollars in charitable donations. He wasn’t against donating to a good cause but not every cause Lisa took on was something he thought was worthwhile.
    When they’d met ten months ago at a gala for multiple sclerosis she’d mesmerised him. His wallet had told him to steer clear. A woman whose fundraising expertise was coveted by every charitable organisation in town certainly understood how to get what she wanted.
    But there’d been something about her that was different. Sure, she was beautiful but so had his date been at the time. It hadn’t mattered. Lisa had completely captivated him and to his complete surprise it hadn’t waned during their time together. If anything, it had grown.
    Over the past several months, she’d learnt exactly which buttons to push to get what she wanted from him and he recognised it. But just because she knew he’d eventually cave didn’t mean he had to make it easy on her.
    He leant back in his chair and crossed his arms over his chest. “All right, what’s it going to cost me?”
    “Cost you? Oh nothing.” She waved her hand. “Well, practically nothing, a couple of tickets that’s all.”
    Narrowing his eyes, he stared at her. What wasn’t she saying? There had to be more to it than just a couple of tickets. She looked far too uncomfortable about the conversation for it to be something as simple as that. Christ, how much were the tickets? “What are we talking?”
    Lisa chewed her bottom lip. The unconscious gesture drew his eyes to her