Too much to lose

Why not marry a boss, instead of a boss's daughter?"

Even as Jessica regretted blurting out her unorthodox proposal to Sam Ryder, she wondered amazedly at how circumstances had gotten so out of control.

She'd set out to prove that even a former lingerie model could do a man's job. Now she'd blundered into using the very tactics everyone cynically expected to lure her Chief Engineer, Sam Ryder, back to McGill Construction.

Surely Sam would see that her words were only a desperate expression for help to save McGill from ruin. Nothing more--nothing Jessica wanted to admit, that is.