{"id":226,"date":"2016-12-10T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T15:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=226"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T09:37:51","slug":"vows-they-cant-escape","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/vows-they-cant-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Vows They Can&#8217;t Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-41p7c2-f6e42f9dca8c5a70e4591064954243dc main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-226'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-85dwi-ab7e2cd648a0c9827e806587dfc9cb98\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-85dwi-ab7e2cd648a0c9827e806587dfc9cb98{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-85dwi-ab7e2cd648a0c9827e806587dfc9cb98 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-85dwi-ab7e2cd648a0c9827e806587dfc9cb98 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-85dwi-ab7e2cd648a0c9827e806587dfc9cb98 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Vows They Can\u2019t Escape<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3nv7v6-e4de20a6391f857baf6aac865a145e0b\">\n.flex_column.av-3nv7v6-e4de20a6391f857baf6aac865a145e0b{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-3nv7v6-e4de20a6391f857baf6aac865a145e0b av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_one_fourth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-3kxq0y-488d8dd948f99ab7d77f7cfa39a67561'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div id=\"iframeContent\">\n<p><strong>Still legally wedded\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xanthe Carmichael has just discovered two things:<\/p>\n<p>1. Her ex-husband could take half of her business<\/p>\n<p>2. She\u2019s actually <em>still<\/em> married to him!<\/p>\n<p>When she jets off to New York, divorce papers in hand, Xanthe is prepared for the billionaire bad boy\u2019s slick offices\u2026 but not for the spear of lust that hits her the moment she sees Dane Redmond again! Has her body no shame, no recall of the pain he caused? But Dane is stalling\u2026 Is he really checking the fine print or planning to stir the smouldering embers of their passion and tempt her back into the marriage bed?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Rereleased Nov 2021 in the UK in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Island-Escapes-Seduction-Princesss-Pregnancy-ebook\/dp\/B0964LJHBM\/\">Islands Escapes: Seduction at Sea\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"iframeContent\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3dpmlm-1e338c4c6b1c72a8ccc403391f2f43f0\">\n.flex_column.av-3dpmlm-1e338c4c6b1c72a8ccc403391f2f43f0{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-3dpmlm-1e338c4c6b1c72a8ccc403391f2f43f0 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     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.av-special-heading.av-28hw8y-6bcbdec9fc3ab0d62c77cf9948a1e549{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-28hw8y-6bcbdec9fc3ab0d62c77cf9948a1e549 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-28hw8y-6bcbdec9fc3ab0d62c77cf9948a1e549 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-28hw8y-6bcbdec9fc3ab0d62c77cf9948a1e549 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-11  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Excerpt:<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-79bky-b961da87662c40dbf3ae9211a5041d9f'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Xanthe Carmichael strode into the gleaming steel and glass lobby of the twenty-six-storey office block housing Redmond Design Studios on Manhattan\u2019s West Side, satisfied that the machine gun taps of her heels against the polished stone flooring said exactly what she wanted them to say:<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch out, boys, woman scorned on the warpath.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ten years after Dane Redmond had abandoned her in a seedy motel room on the outskirts of Boston, she was ready to bring the final curtain crashing down on their brief and catastrophic liaison.<\/p>\n<p>So the flush that had leaked into her cheeks despite the building\u2019s over-efficient air-conditioning and the bottomless pit opening up in her stomach could take a hike.<\/p>\n<p>After a six-hour flight from Heathrow, spent power-napping in the soulless comfort of Business Class, and two days and nights figuring out how she was going to deal with the unexploded bomb the head of her legal team, Bill Spencer, had dropped at her feet on Wednesday afternoon, she was ready for any eventuality.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Dane Redmond had once meant to her seventeen-year-old self, the potentially disastrous situation Bill had uncovered wasn\u2019t personal any more\u2014it was business. And nothing got in the way of her business.<\/p>\n<p>Carmichael\u2019s, the two-hundred-year-old shipping company which had been in her family for four generations, was the only thing that mattered to her now. And she would do anything to protect it and her new position as the majority shareholder and CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hi, I\u2019m Ms Sanders, from London, England,\u2019 she said to the immaculately dressed woman at reception, giving the false name she\u2019d instructed her PA to use when setting up this meeting. However confident she felt, she was not about to give a bare-knuckle fighter like Dane a heads-up. \u2018I have an appointment with Mr Redmond to discuss a commission.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The woman sent her a smile as immaculate as her appearance. \u2018It\u2019s great to meet you, Ms Sanders.\u2019 She tapped the screen in front of her and picked up the phone. \u2018If you\u2019d like to take a seat, Mr Redmond\u2019s assistant, Mel Mathews, will be down in a few minutes to escort you to the eighteenth floor.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Xanthe\u2019s heartbeat thudded against her collarbone as she re-crossed the lobby\u2019s atrium under the life-size model of a huge wing-sail catamaran suspended from the ceiling. A polished brass plaque announced that the boat had won Redmond Design a prestigious sailing trophy twice in a row.<\/p>\n<p>She resisted the urge to chew off the lipstick she\u2019d applied in the cab ride from JFK.<\/p>\n<p>Bill\u2019s bombshell would have been less problematic if Dane had still been the boy her father had so easily dismissed as \u2018a trailer trash wharf rat with no class and fewer prospects\u2019, but she refused to be cowed by Dane\u2019s phenomenal success over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>She was here to show him who he was dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>But, as she took in the ostentatious design of Dane\u2019s new headquarters in New York\u2019s \u00fcber-hip Meatpacking District, the awe-inspiring view of the Hudson Bay from the lobby\u2019s third floor aspect, and that beast of a boat, she had to concede the meteoric rise of his business, and his position as one of the world\u2019s premier sailing boat designers didn\u2019t surprise her.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d always been smart and ambitious\u2014a natural-born sailor more at home on water than dry land\u2014which was exactly why her father\u2019s estate manager had hired him that summer in Martha\u2019s Vineyard, to run routine maintenance on the small fleet of two yachts and a pocket cruiser her father kept at their holiday home.<\/p>\n<p>Running routine maintenance on Charles Carmichael\u2019s impressionable, na\u00efve daughter had been done on his own time.<\/p>\n<p>No one had ever been able to fault Dane\u2019s work ethic.<\/p>\n<p>Xanthe\u2019s thigh muscles trembled at the disturbingly vivid memory of blunt fingers trailing across sensitive skin, but she didn\u2019t break stride.<\/p>\n<p>All that energy and purpose had drawn her to him like a heat-seeking missile. That and the super power they\u2019d discovered together\u2014his unique ability to lick her to a scream-your-lungs-out orgasm in sixty seconds or less.<\/p>\n<p>She propped her briefcase on a coffee table and sunk into one of the leather chairs lining the lobby.<\/p>\n<p><em>Whoa, Xan. Do not think about the super power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crossing her legs, she squeezed her knees together, determined to halt the conflagration currently converging on the hot spot between her thighs. Even Dane\u2019s super power would never be enough to compensate for the pain he\u2019d caused.<\/p>\n<p>She hid the unsettling thought behind a tight smile as a thirty-something woman headed in her direction across the ocean of polished stone. Grabbing the briefcase containing the documents she had flown three thousand miles to deliver, Xanthe stood up, glad when her thighs remained virtually quiver-free.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dane Redmond\u2019s not the only badass in town. Not any more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Xanthe was feeling less like a badass and more like a sacrificial lamb five minutes later, as the PA led her through a sea of hip and industrious young marketing people working on art boards and computers on the eighteenth floor. Even her machine gun heel-taps had been muffled by the industrial carpeting.<\/p>\n<p>The adrenaline which had been pumping through her veins for forty-eight hours and keeping her upright slowed to a crawl as they approached the glass-walled corner office and the man within, silhouetted against the Jersey Shoreline. The jolt of recognition turned the bottomless pit in her stomach into a yawning chasm.<\/p>\n<p>Broad shoulders and slim hips were elegantly attired in steel-grey trousers and a white shirt. But his imposing height, the muscle bulk revealed by the shirt\u2019s rolled-up sleeves, the dark buzz cut hugging the dome of his skull, and the tattoo that covered his left arm down to his elbow did nothing to disguise the wolf in expensively tailored clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat gathered between Xanthe\u2019s breasts and the powder-blue silk suit and peach camisole ensemble she\u2019d chosen twelve hours ago in London, because it covered all the bases from confident to kickass, rubbed against her skin like sandpaper.<\/p>\n<p>The internet hadn\u2019t done Dane Redmond justice. Because the memory of the few snatched images she\u2019d found yesterday while preparing for this meeting was comprehensively failing to stop a boulder the size of an asteroid forming in her throat.<\/p>\n<p>She forced one foot in front of the other as the PA tapped on the office door and led her into the wolf\u2019s den.<\/p>\n<p>Brutally blue eyes locked on Xanthe\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>A flicker of stunned disbelief softened his rugged features before his jaw went rigid, making the shallow dent in his chin twitch. The searing look had the thundering beat of Xanthe\u2019s heart dropping into that yawning chasm.<\/p>\n<p>Had she actually kidded herself that age and money and success would have refined Dane\u2014tamed him, even\u2014or at the very least made him a lot less intense and intimidating? Because she\u2019d been dead wrong. Either that or she\u2019d just been struck by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is Ms Sanders from\u2014\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Leave us, Mel.\u2019 Dane interrupted the PA\u2019s introduction. \u2018And shut the door.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The husky command had Xanthe\u2019s heartbeat galloping into her throat to party with the asteroid, reminding her of all the commands he\u2019d once issued to her in the same he-who-shall-be-obeyed tone. And the humiliating speed with which she\u2019d obeyed them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Relax, I won\u2019t hurt you. I swear.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hold on tight, this is gonna be the ride of your life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I take care of my own, Xan, that\u2019s non-negotiable.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The door closed behind the dutiful PA with a hushed click.<\/p>\n<p>Xanthe gripped the handle on her briefcase with enough force to crack a nail and lifted her chin, channelling the smouldering remains of her inner badass that had survived the lightning strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hello, Dane,\u2019 she said, glad when her voice remained relatively steady.<\/p>\n<p>She would not be derailed by a physical reaction which was ten years out of date and nothing more than an inconvenient throwback to her youth. It would pass. Eventually.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hello, Ms Sanders.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His thinly veiled contempt at her deception had outrage joining the riot of other emotions she was busy trying to suppress.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If you\u2019ve come to buy a boat, you\u2019re all out of luck.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The searing gaze wandered down to her toes, the insolent appraisal as infuriating as the fuses that flared to life in every pulse point en route.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t do business with spoilt little rich chicks.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His gaze rose back to her face, having laid waste to her composure.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Especially ones I was once dumb enough to marry.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-1v0emi-73e221be058e54d05fe412ed8287db94 entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  grid-row-not-first  container_wrap 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