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Kendall pales and I wonder at that, before saying smoothly, “My PA goes where I go. If I’m in the city, that’s fine. But if I’m traveling, they go with me. There is a required dress code. If I hire you, you will be, in essence, representing me. I expect you to be wearing your new status.”
Kendall’s thin hand clenches into a fist on her lap.
I continue, “Your living quarters will also have to be closer to mine. Your job never ends. I can ask you to be available at three in the morning and I expect you to be there, thunder or hail.”
“I don’t…” she stammers out, her cheeks red with embarrassment. “I don’t have—”
“—Because this is such a demanding job,” I cut her off, smoothly. And it’s ridiculous to uproot you without compensating you, your wardrobe and your living quarters will be part of the contract. I’m a fair man but I’m in need of an efficient assistant. Your salary will also be quite handsome.” I name a figure that has her gasping and I feel a thrill of pleasure run through me at the stunned look on her face.
She swallows, fails, and then tries again, croaking, “Are you – Are you offering me the job?”
I feel surprised. “Well, of course. I did just say you best suit me.”
“I…” Her eyes look wet as she tries to speak.
My chest tightens uncomfortably at her expression.
She lowers her gaze and clears her throat. “Are you sure?”
Now, this response does surprise me. “Of course, I am,” I say shortly.
“Oh…” She sounds faint. “I – when do I start?”
I study her intently. “Your apartment will be ready to move into at the end of the month. You will receive a letter in the evening, including the contract. Hand in the signed contract tomorrow. Ask for Lana Hill. You’ll be given a company card with a limit of two hundred thousand. You’re to shop for your clothes in the meantime. Officially, I want you to start in three days.”
The look on her face is disbelieving and warily hopeful, as if somebody who’s had her dreams crushed a thousand times and doesn’t trust something good being handed to her.
You’ve suffered enough, I muse. Now, it’s my turn to take care of you.
Kendall blinks rapidly, repeating, “Three days. I’ll be here.”
I don’t want her to leave but if she doesn’t know who I am yet, then it gives me ample amount
of time to endear myself to her so deeply that when she does find out, she can’t leave.
Regretfully, that means I have to act as her boss, and nothing more, for now.
I give her a curt nod, and she understands she’s being dismissed.
A glance at the wall clock tells me that this all took place in under fifteen minutes and I feel displeased. I could have drawn it out.
However, as I watch her stagger out, a tendril of dark possessiveness curls around me.
If I have it my way, Kendall West will never want for anything… ever in her life.
2
Kendall
It feels like my whole life has been turned upside down.
I stand in the metal elevator, my thoughts wild, and I try not to break down into tears of relief. The pang of hunger in my stomach is ignored.
Seven jobs.
I had been turned away from seven jobs, being told I didn’t have the necessary qualifications, or that they had better applicants. And now, this CEO, Caleb Starr, the man who has singlehandedly taken over multiple businesses, a mysterious man who walked in a few years ago and gripped the business world by the throat, has tossed me the job of a lifetime.
Me.
