Chapter One

The clatter was deafening as the helicopter descended from a cloudless blue sky, and a nervous bead of sweat trickled down Toyin's breasts.

 ' He's here,' said Andy abruptly as the blades stopped turning. 

' Don't look so worried, Toyin. Massimo Carter might be the big boss but he doesn't bite. He just doesn't suffer fools gladly and as long as you remember that, you'll be okay. Okay? '

 ' Okay. ' Toyin echoed dutifully. 

But her throat was still tight with tension as Andy left the veranda and ran towards the helicopter where a powerfully built man had just appeared at the open door. 

Another feeling of panic prickled over Toyin's skin but now it was underpinned with something else. 

Something which made her pulse start racing.

Even from the distance she could see the hard definition of his body. In an immaculate suit, which hugged his muscular physique, he looked sophisticated and urbane----as out of place in the dusty outback setting as his experience helicopter. 

Everything about him proclaimed the fact that this was the billionaire owner of one of the world's biggest telecommunications companies, whose enormous cattle station was simply one of his 'hobbies'. 

Massimo Carter, even the name sounded sexy. 

She'd heard the other staff talking about him. Tantalizing snatches of gossip which had made her ears prick up, though she'd been careful not to pry or show her curiosity.

Because Toyin had learnt very quickly that if she wanted to keep her identify secret, it was better to be seen and not heard.

To dress demurely and fade in the background.

She watched as Andy moved forward and the two men exchanged a few words of greeting before walking towards the homestead as the helicopter rose back up into the sky.

She wondered what it was about the arrival of Massimo Carter which made her feel as if her world were about to come tumbling down around her. 

Fear she would be found out? 

All she wanted was to escape from her gilded life and forge a more worthwhile existence?

For the first time in her life she was on her own, nobody knew who she was and nobody cared.

There was no eyes following her every move. 

Her brother, Drake had given her an ultimatum and time was running out fast. 

He wanted her back in Antiochda, preferably by Christmas, but certainly by the time of her, little sister, Ruth, nineteenth birthday at the end of March. 

Toyin is from the Antiochda Royal family, her mom, the Queen of Antiochda, is from Nigeria so she decided to give her first born daughter a Nigeria name.

She has an older brother and sister 

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'Toyin' come meet the boss. '

Andy's broad Australia accent shattered her thoughts.

Close up, he was even more spectacular. 

She met his grey eyes which where trained in her direction. 

 ' Massimo'. Andy's voice relaxed as he gestured in her direction.

'This is Toyin, she's been cooking for us for nearly six months now. '

'Toyin....? ' he said, his deep, mellifluous voice and the effect that paralysing stare was having on her.