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No.
I was Colter fucking Price. I didn’t get drawn in, hypnotized, mesmerized.
I wanted to know what the hell she was before I let anything happen. I could play her game for a while, if she would play mine. This could be a win-win for both of us, but I wasn't interested unless I was in charge. I always finished on top.
And all that implied.
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LIV
“Well, that was a shit show,” Jerry said after Colter and his two men left the boardroom.
“Was it?” I asked. “I thought your presentation went really well.”
“I don’t know why you think I’m going to be nice to you now that they’re gone. You don’t have to keep up the act.”
Right. Jerry was still a dick. He’d only been semi-nice to me in front of the others.
“Hopefully they’ll come back to you soon,” I offered, trying not to take the bait.
The only thing I had to do while I was here was whatever it took to keep this job. He knew how to play the game. I would do it, too.
“I want those notes,” Jerry said.
“I’ll send them to you as soon as I clean them up,” I said. “I’ll take care of them right away.”
“No, you’ll take care of them later. Right now, I want you to get me some lunch.”
I bristled. Was he going to insist I was a lowly assistant even after the rest of them were gone? Of course he would. If I had to run around being an assistant, at least it still fell under the salary I earned as a researcher.
“What can I get you?” I asked.
“I want something from that new place that opened on Fourth. Do you know it?”
“I’ll find out,” I said.
“Good. Get me whatever.”
I nodded and walked to the door.
“No pickles,” he called after me. “And nothing spicy, either. Keep my allergies in mind, too. But make it interesting.”
“I’m on it,” I said, trying to hide the sigh. It was going to be a challenge to fill that order, but let it not be said that I wasn’t up for a challenge.
Every day here was a challenge.
I walked to the elevator and pressed the button to go down. I glanced at my phone while I waited. It was already lunch, and I still had so much to do. I would have to catch up on the day’s work, staying after hours if I had to. Jerry wouldn’t accept that he’d asked me to sit in on a meeting, and that was why I hadn’t done my own work.
I hadn’t had a chance to give my documents to him in the hopes that he would take notice of my ideas.
When the elevator doors slid open, I stepped in and turned. I hummed softly to myself. The doors slid shut again, and I tried to figure out what I had to do to get my work noticed. Jerry wasn’t going to help me succeed; that was a given. I had to get someone else’s attention in the company, I just didn’t know who…
Just before the elevator door closed, a hand stopped it, and it opened again.
Colter Price stood in front of me, his emerald eyes locking on mine.
I stopped humming.
