Chapter 3Theo’s thoughts—when he awoke, got dressed, and fixed breakfast Wednesday morning—vacillated between what he’d hired Moore Investigations to do, and the man who was handling his case.
Am I that shallow, or that deprived, that spending twenty minutes with Ric has my libido going into overdrive? Yeah, he’s handsome and sexy, but get a grip.
“Not that it matters one way or the other,” he said aloud. “As soon as he finds out who I am, I’ll never see him again. If he finds out, that is.” He chuckled. “I’m the missing heir to a fortune. My birth mother’s—okay, think of her as Lilliana to make it easier. Lilliana’s father made his money in, umm, stocks and bonds. She was an only child, and he wanted her to marry into a prestigious family and have a son to carry on the tradition. Instea
