Taken Over

Marriage for a merger... Joel Howard, arrogant, self-assured and all too aware of his sexual magnetism, reminded Cassie of the unlikelihood of anyone ever loving her. She would rather have sold her soul to the devil than ally herself with him. So she entertained a proposal from his closest competitor, dangerously underestimating Joel's desire to take over her London-based computer-games company. 'There's only one way I can be sure of your loyalty,' Joel told her, 'and that's by buying it, the same way Peter Williams intended to buy it, by marrying you.'