Taste Of Love: Loving Jenna #1 by Katelyn Skye

 
    Prologue
    “Morgan,
we need to talk.”
    Morgan
rose to his feet in surprise as the elegantly beautiful, middle-aged woman
appeared. His secretary respectfully closed the door behind Ursula Shaw, who
advanced into the office until she was standing in front of her son’s desk.
    Morgan
was surprised to see his mother to say the least. She never came to visit him
where he worked as managing director of the distinguished financial consultancy
firm owned by his father, Nathan Shaw.
    It was
no secret how much his mother hated this part of their lives. Sure, the
mega-successful business had put the family where it was today, among one of
the richest in the city if not the state. It paid for an expensive lifestyle
where she was welcome into the most exclusive circles. True, she would never
want for anything again in her life but one thing Ursula had never really liked
was the price she’d had to pay in return.
    Her
marriage had suffered greatly just because her husband, Nathan, had turned this
company into the center of his existence. He’d worked punishing hours for the
past twenty years just to keep his dream alive of owning the most renowned
financial advisory firm. This meant that on many of those marvelous trips she
took around the world, Ursula mostly took them alone. Those delicious, well
planned dinners she prepared every night, she ended up having to throw most of
it away because he could never make it home for the meal. Ursula had spent her
marriage by herself, and it had taken a recent health scare for her husband to
slow down and play a less active role in his company.
    And now
Ursula was seeing the same thing happening to her son.
    Morgan
was just as driven by success as his father was. He always had to come out top
in everything. As a student and even in his everyday life, his competitiveness
knew no bounds. He’d started at a lowly position in his father’s firm when he’d
left university; Nathan hadn’t been ready to give him any preferential
treatment. But in months, Morgan had proven his worth and by the end of two
years with the firm, he’d risen to the role of managing director, much to
Ursula’s hidden dismay.
    Morgan
was a very handsome young man. Not even thirty, he had the distinguished air of
a man in his prime. Like his father, he had that raven black hair, straight and
thick with hints of blue amongst the inky locks. His eyes though, were a
startling blue like Ursula’s. He was very handsome, very sought after
especially in their high-brow circles. But he never
seemed interested in any one, not seriously. Oh, he had the usual flings and
there was always a recurring female whom he turned to when he needed someone on
his arm for that special gathering.
    But
Ursula knew Morgan had no time for love.
    He was
her only child; she loved him dearly but even she wasn’t blind to his faults.
He could be cold and implacable, especially to others in the outside world, people he could never trust because he believed
everyone wanted something from him.
He had to prove himself to his father at every turn and Ursula could understand
how it must have turned her son into the driven, hard-edged young man he was.
And this made her sad.
    She was
here today to try and steer him on the right path before it was too late
– for both of them.
    *
Morgan didn’t want to believe what his mother was telling him.
    She’d
left her father at the house in the early morning of yesterday, supposedly to
make it to one of her spa appointments. These usually lasted the whole day and
her husband hadn’t been expecting her back soon.
    But
Ursula had mistakenly taken the wrong bag, the one without her credit cards and
had to return home to get them. When she arrived, she’d heard voices in
Nathan’s study. She’d been surprised because she’d only left him fifteen
minutes ago and there’d been no one else in their home.
    Curious
to know who he was with, she’d gone to stand close to
the study door, listening