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“But what if I did?”
“You didn’t.”
We reach the door to the conference room we’ve rented closest to the kitchen and Lisa turns to me, gripping my shoulders once more as she says, “And if you did—which you didn’t—we’ll address it.”
I breathe deeply and nod.
“Repeat after me: There’s nothing I cannot handle.”
“There’s nothing I cannot handle.”
“I am a badass… producer… boss babe.”
I roll my eyes. “Not saying that.”
She crosses her arms and levels me with a narrowed stare.
I grunt. “I am a badass producer.”
“Boss babe.”
“Boss babe,” I grumble.
“Good. Let’s do this.”
She opens the door and adds, “Tits up.”
I straighten my shoulders as we enter the massive room, but as soon as my eyes land on Micheal sitting with the panel of judges, my footsteps falter. Lisa nudges me forward discreetly and whispers, “Badass boss babe, remember?”
I give her a curt nod and lift my chin as I approach the long table, repeating the words in my head because goddammit, I am a badass boss babe. And this is my show.
Only two seats remain, and, of course, they’re beside my ex.
I stop at the end of the table and look down at him. “Micheal.”
He looks up and his eyebrows lift like he’s surprised to see me here.
At my fucking show.
Smug bastard.
“Ms. Carmichael, how are you?”
Ms. Carmicheal? My teeth grind at the impersonal greeting, and I hate the way it chinks a little piece of my armor away, letting the pain of his betrayal rise up again.
When I don’t return his faux pleasantry, Micheal motions to the chair beside him, and if I didn’t have so much invested in this project, I’d tell him to shove that chair right up his—
Lisa clears her throat behind me, snapping me out of it.
I settle into the seat beside Micheal, ignoring the familiar musk of his cologne, the way his dark hair is styled too perfectly and begs to be mussed by my fingers, and that stupid, perfect face of his.
Instead, I focus on the paperwork in front of me.
My eyes land on the list of contestants and I do a doubletake.
The first name on the list isn’t one I picked yesterday.
Though it is familiar.
