Ellison is incredibly remorseful for his mistakes of the past, but Grey doesn’t want to hear his apologies. Things start out nothing but tense between the men. He is willing to agree to whatever it takes, including being ordered around for two weeks by Grey as his “personal assistant,” in order to help out his family. Ellison knows Grey’s takeover is ironclad, but Ellison figures he may be able to negotiate a little. Not to mention that his greedy father has sheltered all their family assets in the company, meaning Ellison’s mother will be left without a home if Grey takes the company. He may hate his father, but he loves his mother and sister and he hates the idea of the family company being in someone else’s hands. But when Grey takes over York, Ellison knows he needs to help. In fact, he has finally extricated himself from that life and is starting work at a private school he runs with his sister in Vermont. Now Grey is ready for the jewel in his crown, to take over York Capital and see the look on Warren and Ellison York’s faces when they realize that he now owns their precious family company.Įllison wants nothing to do with his father or York Capital. One by one, he has slowly taken over each of the companies owned by the families who tried to ruin him - the ones who fired him, the ones who rescinded job offers, the ones who black balled him. Grey has built his own investment banking firm, working three jobs and countless hours to go from the poor kid from a struggling family into a success. Grey has let his anger fuel him for the past fifteen years and he is determined to destroy those who sought to ruin his life the best way he knows how - through business. The only thing Ellison can do is be a better man and try to turn his life around. But now it is too late as the damage is done and no one will listen. Ellison deeply regrets not speaking up at the time, not making it clear that it was he who encouraged Grey into the storeroom, that Grey did nothing wrong.

But when they were caught, Ellison’s father and his powerful friends ruined Grey’s reputation and any chance he had for the critical connections into the investment banking world he had been struggling to attain for years. Ellison had long desired Grey, and his interest in having an encounter with a man for the first time was real. He was drunk and when he was encouraged to try to hook up with a caddy at the club, Ellison let his attraction to Grey Blackwood get the best of him. Fifteen years ago, Ellison York let a dare get out of hand.

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