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rearranged a few things in his head.
    “Good.” Steven smiled at him. “I knew talking to Eric about bringing you in was a great idea.
    “Let’s clear something up. I’m not looking to become partner. If I do this, I’ll buy the both of you out. If you want to stay on, I’ll respect that and add it to the contracts, but if I decide to step in, it will be a full takeover. I’ll absorb Row and Stein completely.”
    The men nodded in agreement and their smiles grew. “We’ve both decided that we’re too old and tired to continue running things like we’ve been doing. Neither of our kids wanted to follow in our footsteps, so we can’t hand the business down to family. Shame my son turned out to be a surgeon,” he said.
    Aiden smiled. “From what Eric tells me, a pretty good one too.”
    Steven’s smile was bigger now. “Damn good.”
    “I’ll make those arrangements and have all the paperwork ready when you arrive,” Paul said. “Oh, one more thing.” Paul glanced at Steven quickly. “We want to keep this under the radar for now. No one can know about it outside us and the board members. Not until we’ve agreed to a deal.”
    Aiden shook both of the men’s hands and watched the men leave. It was easy enough for him to read between the lines and know that they were having difficulty dealing with their growth and handling the financial responsibilities that came with success.
    Aiden had been using Row and Stein Architects for the last five years for his own business and knew that the firm provided quality. In the years he’d used them, he’d never had any problems and had always enjoyed working with them.
    But since Urban Development was Aiden’s baby, he didn’t want to jump into anything quickly. Not when it could jeopardize his business. He loved being a developer, but he loved being a business owner even more.
    He could use a slight distraction. He was in between relationships and had plenty of time to focus on work, which was kind of slowly driving him crazy. This was just what he needed right now.
    “Lisa?” He stepped out of his office and waited for his secretary to follow him back in. He walked around and sat behind his desk. “I’ll need to move my schedule around.”

    Two weeks later, Aiden walked toward the silver thirty-story building downtown that housed the offices of Row and Stein Architecture Firm.
    He’d been in the high-rise building on several occasions but had never been to the seventh level where the firm consumed the entire floor.
    As he walked toward the rotating doors out front, he was bumped into from behind and almost knocked to the ground by a hurricane.
    The first thing he noticed was the mass of hair flying in the heavy wind. High winds were common in downtown Denver, and today was no exception. He had struggled to keep his tie tucked in his jacket as he’d stepped off the bus into the wind earlier. So when the woman bumped solidly into him, he held on to her, assuming that her hair had blocked her sight and she just hadn’t seen him.
    Her long green skirt was flying around, and even though the thing reached her ankles, she held on to it with a death grip to keep it from rising above her head.
    There was a stack of papers tucked under her arm, as well as a large black tube for holding designs.
    When she had knocked into him, some of her papers had flown out of her hands. She reached out to grab them and lost hold of her skirt, which rushed up high on her thighs. He was rewarded with a view of the sexiest pair of legs he’d ever seen.
    It took him a moment to stop staring at the perfect, silky legs and spring into action. He reached out and grabbed at the papers that were flying around their heads in a whirlwind.
    Finally, when he’d snagged the last paper from the air, he turned to her and stopped dead. He’d thought the legs were perfect. The rest of her was even better.
    Her green eyes laughed at him as she tried to hold her skirt to her body and tame her long