{"id":761,"date":"2022-08-01T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=761"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T20:12:04","slug":"revealing-her-best-kept-secret","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/revealing-her-best-kept-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealing Her Best Kept Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-b0aiv-e285b79aa7917100fdf2cfd828fa6bf6 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-761'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k3yawgpy-9e9937ee476143c6527806b87ee7311b\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-9e9937ee476143c6527806b87ee7311b{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-9e9937ee476143c6527806b87ee7311b .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-9e9937ee476143c6527806b87ee7311b .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-k3yawgpy-9e9937ee476143c6527806b87ee7311b av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  av-linked-heading'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Revealing Her Best Kept Secret<\/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-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c\">\n.flex_column.av-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c{\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-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c 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-jycr59r9-74850ab5814e59cab7873f4109edc1d0'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>A four-year-old secret\u2026 <\/strong><strong><em><span class=\"a-text-italic\">From that unforgettable night!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the passionate hours Lacey Carstairs spent with CEO Brandon Cade, her life couldn\u2019t have changed more dramatically. Even her name has changed! Yet when writer Lacey is told to interview Brandon at the last minute, she can\u2019t believe he doesn\u2019t recognize her\u2014at\u00a0all\u2026<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s his invitation to be his plus-one at a ball in Paris that Lacey finds most shocking\u2014and privately thrilling! Until Brandon\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">finally\u00a0<\/span>recognizes her and the past begins to crash into the present\u2026 Starting with Lacey\u2019s biggest secret: their child!<\/p>\n<p><b>The Devlin Sisters:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>#1: <em>Rev<\/em><em>ealing her Best Kept Secret<\/em> \u2013 Lacey and Brandon<\/p>\n<p>#2: <a href=\"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/revenge-in-paradise\/\"><em>Revenge in Paradise<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Milly and Roman \u2013 out July 2024<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706\">\n.flex_column.av-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706{\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-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_one_fourth  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There\u2019s no way on earth Brandon Cade will remember you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lacey Carstairs recited the mantra for the fiftieth time. Unfortunately, it was doing nothing to steady her galloping heartbeat or reduce the boiling pain in her temples at the thought of the interview which loomed large in her future with the man who had ground her heart\u2014and her career prospects\u2014to dust beneath the heel of his hand-made Italian leather loafers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Do you know how much longer Mr Cade is likely to be?\u2019 Lacey asked the receptionist in the stark and stylish penthouse offices of Cade Tower on London\u2019s South Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This interview is not his top priority today,\u2019 the woman replied, with enough haughty superiority to put Lacey firmly in her place. \u2018But he should be with you soon. He has a meeting scheduled in Paris in\u2026\u2019 she clicked on her tablet \u2018\u2026two hours.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Two hours, but surely\u2026?\u2019 Lacey trailed off, her anxiety catching up with her reporter\u2019s instincts. Cade\u2019s tight schedule could be a bonus. Surely he would have to reschedule? It took longer than two hours to get to Paris from here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We have a heliport on the roof,\u2019 the receptionist replied, crushing that hope like a bug. \u2018He won\u2019t have to leave till two.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Fabulous<\/em>. \u2018Right.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>So, no reprieve. But the good news was he had less than an hour now before he had to leave, so the interview would have to be brief\u2014a reprieve of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Her gaze strayed to the glass wall behind the receptionist\u2019s desk, and the sky-high view of the Thames snaking lazily past the steel-and-glass blocks of London\u2019s Square Mile, the City\u2019s financial hotspot.<\/p>\n<p>How fitting that the most powerful media mogul in Europe should conduct his empire from the top of the continent\u2019s tallest building. Unfortunately, the bubble of vertigo wasn\u2019t doing much for the nausea lying low in Lacey\u2019s stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The thought of having to see Brandon Cade again had kept her up all night. So she now had the foggy feeling of exhaustion to add to the double whammy of terror and stress which had slammed into her yesterday evening, when her editor, Melody, had phoned with the \u2018stupendous news\u2019\u2013\u2013Lacey would be handling the Cade profile because Tiffany Bradford, the magazine\u2019s star feature writer, had the flu.<\/p>\n<p>Unless Lacey wanted to kill her career a second time\u2014and\/or come up with a viable explanation as to why she was the only female magazine journalist in the known universe who would rather shoot herself in the head than spend sixty minutes with the world\u2019s handsomest and most dynamic billionaire bachelor. Refusing simply hadn\u2019t been an option.<\/p>\n<p>Not that Melody had given her an option.<\/p>\n<p>This interview was a seriously big deal for <em>Splendour<\/em> magazine. It had been three months in the offing, the result of intense negotiations between the magazine\u2019s executive editor and the might of Cade Inc\u2019s PR department. Even so, Lacey had no doubt at all Brandon Cade would have refused, but for the media furore surrounding his ex-mistress\u2019s kiss-and-tell book, which was currently threatening to derail the company\u2019s acquisition plans in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Misty Goodnight had painted an evocative portrait of an impossibly handsome, powerful, sexually dominant and yet wholly unknowable autocrat of thirty-one, who treated his women with the same cool, calm, ruthless detachment with which he ran the empire he had inherited from his father at seventeen.<\/p>\n<p>Lacey happened to know Misty hadn\u2019t lied\u2013\u2013or rather, her army of ghost writers hadn\u2019t lied. The tabloid press had taken the story and run with it, dubbing Cade \u2018the Great Gasp-by\u2019, thanks to Misty\u2019s lurid depictions of his sexual prowess.<\/p>\n<p>Lacey\u2019s nipples drew into hard peaks at the visceral memory of her one time with Cade. She swallowed down the aching pain in her throat and crossed her arms over her swollen breasts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t go there. Do not go there. Ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The evidence Cade still had a sexual hold on her body after one thirty-minute encounter five years ago was as mortifying as it was disturbing.<\/p>\n<p><em>He will not remember you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She repeated the mantra to quell the rising tide of hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>He would never put the smart, sophisticated, perfectly styled magazine journalist together with the eager-to-please intern he had once seduced. She\u2019d changed her name, cut her hair down from long chestnut waves to a curly bob, lost nearly ten pounds\u2014thanks so much, Ruby and her terrible twos\u2014and changed her wardrobe from the second-hand clothes she\u2019d once kidded herself were vintage to the chic lines of the designer labels that were just within her reach now, if she budgeted accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>But, most of all, she\u2019d got a lot less stupid in the intervening years. He\u2019d destroyed her, simply because he could. He\u2019d seduced her at the Carrell launch party and had then napalmed her career. She still hadn\u2019t quite figured out why he\u2019d had her sacked. It wasn\u2019t as if she\u2019d made any demands of him, or expected anything after that mind-blowing encounter. Perhaps she should add paranoid and vindictive to his list of character flaws.<\/p>\n<p><em>He doesn\u2019t need to know about Ruby.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The familiar guilt pricked her conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one day, if her daughter wanted to know who her biological father was, she could tell her. But, until that day came, Lacey refused to throw herself or her daughter on Brandon Cade\u2019s mercy. Given the ruthless way he\u2019d treated her once, she didn\u2019t hold out much hope of his reaction to an illegitimate child being good, or even rational.<\/p>\n<p>And she would never subject a child to a father like her own.<\/p>\n<p>She bit into her lip. Tasted the tiny hint of metal to remind herself not to get carried away.<\/p>\n<p><em>You\u2019re not scared or heartbroken any more, like that starry-eyed nineteen-year-old. You\u2019re cool, aloof and indifferent now. Just like him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Cade was even on record as saying he didn\u2019t want children. So why would she tell him about Ruby?<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness Cade\u2019s PR team had insisted any discussion of his private life was out of bounds. Of course, Melody had implied a good feature writer ignored those kinds of rules. Well, not Lacey. Not this time.<\/p>\n<p>The musical chime of the receptionist\u2019s smartphone startled her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yes, I\u2019ll send her up, then.\u2019 The receptionist clicked off her phone. \u2018If you\u2019d like to take the lift to the top floor, Mr Cade\u2019s EA will be waiting for you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lacey crossed the lobby with as much purpose in her stride as she could muster to step into the scenic lift. The panoramic view of metal and glass across the water glittered like jewels in the noon sunshine. She pressed the top floor button. The buildings dropped away while the writhing snakes in the pit of her stomach plummeted to her toes.<\/p>\n<p><em>You have nothing whatsoever to worry about. 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