But then his piercing stare turned into a surprisingly warm smile. “I’m just messing with you. You only have what…like six months experience? Of course they weren’t going to promote you to VP.” He laughed like it was the most ridiculous thing he’d ever heard.
I forced myself to laugh too.
“Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s get down to business. I took a look at your accounts and came up with a few new ideas. Nothing major. Just a few tweaks here and there of things that I thought we could improve.” He handed me a thick binder.
Who uses binders anymore?
“That’ll be all for now. Can you send in…let’s see…” He glanced at his screen. “Winston Powell.”
“Sure.” I got up to leave. When I was halfway out the door, he stopped me.
“I’m looking forward to your presentation today for Masquerade Records. Make sure you check out my notes on that.” He gestured to the binder.
I nodded and went back to my desk, stopping along the way to give Winston his summons.
“How’d it go?” asked Chastity.
“He hates me.”
“What makes you say that?”
“He knows I wanted that promotion. So he thinks I’m gunning for his job. But hey, I didn’t get fired. So there’s that.”
Chastity shrugged. “Nothing to worry about. After you sleep with him, he won’t be able to fire you. And if he does, you can sue him for sexual harassment. Oldest trick in the book.”
“I’m not going to do that.”
“Never say never.”
“I didn’t…”
Chastity’s eyes lit up. “So you might sleep with him?”
“You’re impossible.”
I was about to start looking through the weird binder that he’d given me when Chastity spun her laptop around to show me some sort of spreadsheet.
“Check this out,” she said.
I scooted my chair over to get a closer look. “What am I looking at here?”
“As your wing woman, it’s my duty to keep track of all your lovers.”
“I don’t have any lovers. I’ve been celibate since the divorce.” Despite the fact that I was in a sex club. And despite the fact thatI’d had a boyfriend for a bit there. Fine, a day. I’d had a boyfriend for a day. If I ever saw Tanner again I was going to punch him.
“And if I do my job right, then you won’t be for much longer. The only question is…who will be the lucky man to break your dry spell? Will it be Tanner?” She pointed to a blurry picture in column A. Under it was a list of pros and cons.
PROS
- Billionaire
- Super Hot
CONS
- Total Asshole
That about sums it up.“You should also add that he has a flaming genie penis that melts anything it touches. So I’m guessing he won’t be the one to break my dry spell.”
